On 8/17/12 2:15 PM, Alan Zisman wrote:   
      
   > Performance improvements are always welcome. (Similarly, I've been suggesting   
   > to Mac-owners currently running last year's OS X 7.x Lion that they upgrade   
   to   
   > this year's OS X 8.x Mountain Lion, primarily for performance improvements).   
      
   I'm not so sure about that. I see virtually no difference in performance    
   from Lion to Mountain Lion. To me ML is Apple's way of bringing OS X    
   closer in line with iOS.  However, it was a no brainer upgrade costing    
   only $19.99.   
      
   > When I bought my iPad 2 yrs ago, I got a bluetooth keyboard with it - but   
   ended   
   > up returning the keyboard (unopened) to the store.... the virtual keyboard -   
   > while not as usable as a physical keyboard - was much better than I'd thought   
   > it would be; good enough for the light-use typing that is all I ever do on   
   it.   
   > (Other people's experience, of course, will vary - I gather that add-on   
   > keyboards are among the most-popular tablet additions).   
      
   I agree with that assessment.  Although I'm not particularly fond of    
   typing anything on my iPad 3, the virtual keyboard does work. The best    
   feature of the iPad 3 my son sent us is the ability to setup a hot spot    
   to use for other devices.   
      
   We recently had an internet outage due to a Texas critter eating through    
   my outside cable.  I had to wait 3 days for Verizon to show up and make    
   repairs.  During that time the iPad 3 with its 4G capability   
   filled in nicely.  But it did cost me an additional $30 for 2GB of data    
   from Verizon with their month to month plan.   
      
   >  The result - I suspect that the Metro Start screen   
   > (I know that MS has dropped the name 'Metro') - like the Dock in Mac OS X -   
   > will be useful for folks that have a small/medium collection of programs, and   
   > will become less and less useful as the number of installed programs rises.   
      
   The jury is still out on Windows 8 but I have a feeling that it's    
   heading in the same direction that Vista went.  I'm going to stick with    
   Windows 7 for the foreseeable future.   
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