Washington Post senior vice president and chief digital officer Vijay Ravindran lost his MacBook Air when his son’s spilled baby bottle put the fizzle in it.
So he got an Asus Transformer (aka Asus Eee Pad) to replace it and never looked back. He ponied up $399 for the 16-gigabyte version with a 32-gigabyte memory card then added a $150 keyboard dock that essentially transforms it into a netbook.
While he hasn’t given up on Apple entirely, he credits the tablet with replacing his MacBook Air an iPad with one device for use when he travels and says he was also “pleasantly surprised” that his go-to apps (like Angry Birds) were available for the Asus.
After a couple of months of using the tablet he says: “I am happy to report that I don’t regret my choice. While I continue to use a MacBook for work and a MacMini and an iMac at home, among several Apple products, I don’t travel with a laptop or Apple product and still manage to effectively field large volumes of e-mail and edit documents.”
He also thinks some Apple aficionados would be wise to consider crossing over to the competition:
“If you are an Apple product user who lives with the same fear (of the product being lost, stolen or damaged), or have trouble with the touch-screen keyboard like I do, an Android tablet or netbook might be a greater improvement than you realize.”
Via Wapo
