Anyone else here in the post-PC era?

I tried to repeat your problem. Ran the Search function from the Start Menu and gave it the exact file name and the directory it's in. Found it right away.So then I did something that I had never tried before. Having navigated to that directory already in Windows Explorer -- had to in order to a specific filename --, I clicked on the Search button there and told it what specific file to look for (I even gave it the name of a different file in that directory. Found it right away.It works with no problem. Don't know what your problem is. Unless you either mentally incompetent or too inflexible and unable to consider using it as it's intended to be used.Which tells me that your persistent mischaracterizations of me are simply projecting your own personal flaws on others.

Message 183: In the OP, Message 1: OK, so the Asus, not the iPad. Sorry.But it was still presented as replacing your PC. Which begs the larger question of whether these devices can indeed replace the PC and what it would take to do so. And I certainly saw your OP as proposing that question.Edited by dwise1, : No reason given.Edited by dwise1, : No reason given.

Not in the least part. Absolutely first exposure to an iPad; indeed, my niece, the one there with the most iPad experience, was the one operating it. I knew what Google Earth does and much of what it can do, including measuring distances. The most immediate question was how to get to that feature, followed by whether it even has that feature at all in the iPad version.Now, on my Android phone, if I'm in an app and I want to see whether I can do a particular thing, I press the Menu "button" so that I can search through the menu for that feature. That would have been my first choice to go exploring, assuming that there even is a menu button on the iPad, which I still do not know but which my niece, being the most experience one there, should have known.So then, no, I wasn't used to it because that was my absolutely first exposure to one. Even "young punks" will go through the exact same thing.So then, no denial at all. Just stating the facts. You are just falling victim to crash's mischaracterization of me. Overpriced and often underpowered. Very restrictive and problems with software availability. Also restricted pretty much to home use, school use (just because of their aggressive campaigns schools to use them, which ends up meaning that those kids grow up having to learn Windows anyway, the OS that they'll actually be working with), and work in graphics and sound arts. And as product placement items in movies and on TV. Certainly not in any engineering work nor in any office environment that I've ever encountered. Yeah, right, just like the ICR's claims of decisive victories in key debates where the actual result was the shelving of proposed creationist curricula (thinking in particular of the circa-1980 Tampa debates between first Morris and then Gish against Ken Miller.).And the reason why their OS is restricted to them (partly also responding to Crash's bragging that you can't run OSX under Windows) is because Apple refuses to license it for any other computer; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_mac:

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Current Mac systems are mainly targeted at the home, education, and creative professional markets.

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The modern Mac, like other personal computers, is capable of running alternative operating systems such as Linux, FreeBSD, and, in the case of Intel-based Macs, Microsoft Windows. However, Apple does not license Mac OS X for use on non-Apple computers.

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Doesn't make one or the other inherently superior or inferior. But since Apple is staying away from entire segments of industry. http://en.wikipedia.org/...arket_share_and_user_demographics:

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Since the introduction of the Macintosh, Apple has struggled to gain a significant share of the personal computer market. At first, the Macintosh 128K suffered from a dearth of available software compared to IBM's PC, resulting in disappointing sales in 1984 and 1985. It took 74 days for 50,000 units to sell. Market share is measured by browser hits, sales and installed base. If using the browser metric, Mac market share has increased substantially in 2007. If measuring market share by installed base, there were more than 20 million Mac users by 1997, compared to an installed base of around 340 million Windows PCs. Statistics from late 2003 indicate that Apple had 2.06 percent of the desktop share in the United States that had increased to 2.88 percent by Q4 2004. As of October 2006, research firms IDC and Gartner reported that Apple's market share in the U.S. had increased to about 6 percent. Figures from December 2006, showing a market share around 6 percent (IDC) and 6.1 percent (Gartner) are based on a more than 30 percent increase in unit sale from 2005 to 2006. The installed base of Mac computers is hard to determine, with numbers ranging from 5% (estimated in 2009) to 16% (estimated in 2005). Mac OS X's share of the OS market increased from 7.31% in December 2007 to 9.63% in December 2008, which is a 32% increase in market share during 2008, compared with a 22% increase during 2007.

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As of March 2010, OS X share has increased to 10.9%. Whether the size of the Mac's market share and installed base is relevant, and to whom, is a hotly debated issue. Industry pundits have often called attention to the Mac's relatively small market share to predict Apple's impending doom, particularly in the early and mid 1990s when the company's future seemed bleakest. Others argue that market share is the wrong way to judge the Mac's success. Apple has positioned the Mac as a higher-end personal computer, and so it may be misleading to compare it to a budget PC. Because the overall market for personal computers has grown rapidly, the Mac's increasing sales numbers are effectively swamped by the industry's expanding sales volume as a whole. Apple's small market share, then, gives the impression that fewer people are using Macs than did ten years ago, when exactly the opposite is true. Soaring sales of the iPhone and iPad mean that the portion of Apple's profits represented by the Macintosh has declined in 2010, dropping to 24% from 46% two years earlier. Others try to de-emphasize market share, citing that it is rarely brought up in other industries. Regardless of the Mac's market share, Apple has remained profitable since Steve Jobs' return and the company's subsequent reorganization. Notably, a report published in the first quarter of 2008 found that Apple had a 14% market share in the personal computer market in the US, including 66% of all computers over $1,000. Market research indicates that Apple draws its customer base from a higher-income demographic than the mainstream personal computer market.

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Hardly "beating the entire PC industry's butt". Yes, that is true and I agree. But where did I say any different?

Um, don't you have to have a computer to set-up your iPad?

I was just doing a quick scan of thread - I didn't read any of Crash's characterizations of you. It was something you wrote that caught my eye, and incredible as it might seem, I formed my opinion based on what you wrote. Then why do you care whether someone thinks Windows is better than Mac/OS or that a tablet is better than a PC?--Percy

Anyone know how Apple solves this problem: --Percy

Apple: Let me introduce you to our full line of Mac compu...Fanboy Caller:

I figured Reddit to be a tad liberal for you, CS.

To be hilarious and entertaining? Nah... I just love funny pictures. Though, I did get a few downvotes for a comment I made about Mexicans... but then I just stopped doing that.

Not at all what I've been saying. What I have been uttering has been the unspeakable heresy that the Mac is not superior, something that notbody seems able to tolerate. The Mac is no more intuitive to use than any other GUI and it has a very definite learning curve that a new user must get past, the same as with any other GUI. And as a result I have been persistently subjected to character assasination.Nor is it a question of whether a tablet is better than a PC, but rather that the current tablets, especially the iPads, are most definitely not replacements for PCs, except for those people whose uses for PCs are restricted to the few PC tasks that they can also do (eg, web access). Tablets do have other capabilities that PCs don't, primarily related to mobility. Tablets can augment and extend out use of PCs, but not completely replace them.Two sets of simple and obvious truths. So why should they be so despised and vehemently opposed?

Hi DWise1,I don't see what you've written previously as giving the same impression as what you've just written.These pointless technology flame wars erupt all the time. There are so many features and options to features and variations on options to features and endless interplay between tools and all their features and options, not to mention the incredible variety of human factors, that discussions will never end. There seems to be somewhat of a consensus that you're picking on a strawman here. No one's claiming that tablets replace PC's, except maybe for the Asus Transformer, which is actually a sort of tablet/PC hybrid.--Percy

Well, the thread title does contain post-pc era and the OP goes on about tablets as being the kick off of this "post-PC era", which tells me as well that the OP thinks we have moved beyond the PC because of tablet computers.

In the September, 2008, issue of Communications of the ACM (Association of Computing Machinery) Professor Michael Cusumano of MIT's Sloan School of Management writes about the opportunities lost by Apple's pursuit of great products at the expense of great industry-wide platforms. Some of what he says applies to this discussion, e.g.: Sound familiar? It should, it's the Microsoft strategy.Later he continues: He appears to share the commonly held view of the superiority of some aspects of the Mac interface: Link to the full article (I don't think they've blocked public access to this, since it's just a column): Technology Strategy and Management: The Puzzle of Apple--PercyEdited by Percy, : Fix bad cut-n-paste.

As hooah points out, the very title of the topic speaks of PCs being replaced. And the OP and a number of respondents spoke of their "post-PC" devices having replaced their PCs. Therefore, the subject of tablets et al. replacing PCs was both implicit in the title and explicit in a number of messages.

How can a tablet replace a PC when you need a PC to operate the tablet?