On Fri, 08 Feb 2019 10:27:43 -0500, nospam
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In article , Eric Stevens
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what i take issue with is that you're blaming the device when it's not
the device at all.

The device contains the user interface at the end of a long pipe line.
It isn't connected by ethernet to a highspeed fibre but relies on
wifi.

802.11ac wifi is faster than your high speed fibre link, with 802.11ax
routers starting to appear.

Where do you think my wifi signal comes from?

an obsolete router.

you don't have an 802.11ac and certainly not ax router. it's n.

the limiting factor are gigabit lans (isp is irrelevant), which is why
some new routers have 10g-e.

and that doesn't actually matter anyway, since searching in no way will
saturate a gigabit isp connection.

It's the hit a key and wait while it sends it to Google and then
Google sends back a response. Then hit another key etc. Pages swap
backwards and forward. Just getting an intelligible first response
from Google on first connecting takes about 10 seconds. It's quicker
after that but one screen at a time ...

it doesn't take anywhere near 10 seconds to do a search on an ipad.

I'm talking about when first starting up.

something is *very* wrong.

It has a small screen so can't easily run more than one graphic
page at a time.

it absolutely can.

Not big enough to contain useful blocks of information.

nonsense.

Yes, they are big enough to hold nonsense.

https://media.idownloadblog.com/wp-c...S-11-iPAd-Pro-
multitasking.png

It says something that you think that standard of display is enough
for a serious search.

it's an example of 'more than one graphic page at a time'.

But not good enough for serious search.

and that doesn't even address browser tabs, which are each a 'graphic
page'.

you are wrong.

It has no physical keyboard but relies on the
simulation of one via a touch screen.

both usb and bluetooth keyboards work without issue, and the onscreen
keyboard is in no way a simulation.

OK. A tablet is easier to use if you buy it a keyboard. That's my
point. Without a keyboard it is less convenient.

except when it isn't.

not everything needs a keyboard.

It's good for solitaire.

that's one reason why tablets are better in many cases.

It has no mouse and requires
various gestures on the screen, both singly and in combination, to
achieve would would be done by a mouse on a desktop.

that's called direct manipulation, which makes it a lot more powerful
for many tasks.

Most of which are of little use to me.

most of which you've never used.
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Regards,

Eric Stevens