Funny conversation today between our boys
Philip (age 6): “There’s a girl who keeps following me around and saying I’m her boyfriend. Tell me how to get rid of her”
Oliver (age 8): “Tell her ‘You deserve somebody better than me’”
Kids first trip to Fenway. It rained, but still a lot of fun!
“I’m using as much electronics [as I can] before the power goes out.”
Oliver Sabet, waiting for Hurricane Irene
Philip wrote his first sentence without help. Turtles hav hrd shls :).
OliverSabet.com
My almost-8-yo son Oliver just started a blog (his idea) with my help. Should be fun to look back on some day. I like how his first ever blog post was talking smack.
Best iPad 2 / Xoom comparison I have seen so far.
Ipad 2 vs Xoom, cont’d
Two posts down, I discussed my difficulty in choosing between iPad 2 and Xoom. Yesterday at the mall, I got a chance to spend 10 minutes with each.
The iPad 2 feels very nice. Like a big iPod Touch. As thin as I expected from all the coverage. The Xoom build also seems nice, but not as nice. In particular, the Xoom feels chunky when holding in portrait mode, although it is tapered to feel thin in landscape. The weight difference was not significant to me.
I prefer the size/aspect ratio of the Xoom. In portrait mode, it feels/looks like a note pad, while the iPad looks like a picture frame. The large glaring Apple on the back of the iPad is ugly to me. It’s just a very trendy symbol which I would feel the absolute need to cover up. I’d much rather have a big ugly “Motorola” on the front pointing at me than an ever bigger, trendy Apple symbol on the back pointing at others.
In using the iPad 2, I was reminded that iOS on a big screen is corny-looking. If the Bondi Blue iMac were an icon, it would be a polished rounded square. Coupled with the late-90s Palm icon arrangement, the overall impact is primitive yet trendy.
In contrast, the overall aesthetic of Gingerbread on the Xoom is edgy, much more to my taste. The dynamic (flip-through and scrolling) widgets add a depth to the experience.
The iPad 2 scrolling/page turning and screen rotation was noticeably smoother. The display also seemed whiter in terms of color temp. Overall, I preferred the quality of the iPad 2 display to that of the Xoom.
On the browser side of things, I preferred the Xoom. The model I tried had the new Flash beta installed, and it seemed to work fine. It was great to have tabbed browsing on the Xoom. I understand from a comment on my other post that one can install a browser with tabbed browsing on the iPad 2, but I didn’t get a chance to try that.
After walking out of the Apple Store, I canceled my iPad 2 order. Still undecided but leaning toward the Xoom now.
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