<html><head></head><body>Hi Jim,<br>
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I can understand how that sounds funny. I still use my laptop for things that need more horsepower or more screen real estate and enjoy it when I need it. However, even with my add on case and keyboard, the tablet is SO SO much more portable than the laptop. It's probably more portable than a netbook, although I've never owned a netbook. This thing is so compact, I can just grab it any time I'm running out the door just like I would a medium sized book. As long as I can get access to a wifi signal, I know I can do 85 - 90% of what I can with the PC. With the Verizon Jet Pack [assuming I want to pay the data fee in a given month], I can even type this reply riding in my car, as a passenger, way out in the boonies in Tennessee. That's very cool. I've got the laptop, but it's in the trunk at the moment, and it's battery doesn't last nearly as long.<br>
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Sincerely,<br>
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Ron<br>
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Ron Frazier<br>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">Jim Kinney <jim.kinney@gmail.com> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap:break-word; font-family: sans-serif">I can't stop giggling. "I got a new tablet! Now it just needs a keyboard."<br /><br />If my laptop had twice the horsepower of a table, I'd be chomping at<br />the bit to upgrade.<br /><br />On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 10:22 AM, Ron Frazier (ALE)<br /><atllinuxenthinfo@techstarship.com> wrote:<br />><br />><br />> Phil Turmel <philip@turmel.org> wrote:<br />><br />>>On 08/31/2012 11:12 AM, Neal Rhodes wrote:<br />>>> No, but every couple of months I go into a Micro Center type or HL<br />>>> computers store to see if any of their bluetooth keyboards will<br />>>> successfully pair with an Android phone. Thus far we've found that<br />>>> keyboards that work with Apple devices fail to pair with Android.<br />>>> Android devices want a password specified, Apple do not, and thus far<br />>>> I've left the store without anything that worked.<br />>><br />>>I noted early in the bluetooth roll-out that many devices used "0000"<br />>>as<br />>>their password. Since then, for any device that didn't explicitly<br />>>document one, I've used that. Hasn't failed me yet.<br />>><br />>>HTH,<br />>><br />>>Phil<br />><br />> You can also try 1234 if 0000 doesn't work.<br />><br />> Ron<br />><br />><br />><hr /><br />> Ale mailing list<br />> Ale@ale.org<br />> <a href="http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale">http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale</a><br />> See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at<br />> <a href="http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo">http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo</a><br /><br /><br /><br />-- <br />--<br />James P. Kinney III<br /><br />Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you<br />gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his<br />own tail. It won't fatten the dog.<br />- Speech 11/23/1900 Mark Twain<br /><br /><a href="http://electjimkinney.org">http://electjimkinney.org</a><br /><a href="http://heretothereideas.blogspot.com">http://heretothereideas.blogspot.com</a>/<br /><hr /><br />Ale mailing list<br />Ale@ale.org<br /><a href="http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale">http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale</a><br />See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at<br /><a href="http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo">http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo</a><br /></pre></blockquote></div></body></html>