Chess Pro - with coach By Christophe Théron -- FreeToday /

[fern]

Albert:
I am thankful you used your time to write this post and I am happy as well you enjoy your tablet, but even with respects to the uses you detail that are proper of a tablet, I still prefer a desktop, NOT EVEN a notebook.
I look at YouTube a lot to learn about thousands of things -UFO issue is one of my favs- and to listen music and looking the guys playing it is a great experience. All that in front not only of a desktop, but an old one.
You see, I am not a geek of anything technical. On the opposite, I enjoy old things. I like to buy second hands books for the experience to find notes, a mark, something, besides the smell of old paper, etc.
I use a very old cel phone, one that causes laughs of my friends. And my comps are all of them machines neglected by my daughters after I byt them the cutting edge notebooks available.
Yes, that's me, an old fart full of crazy fads and manias

Fern

[tjfroh]

Fern, I own a 2001 Buick Regal and four PC machines. I don't use mobile devices at all. In the future I may get one but a cellphone is sufficient.

Kojack

Passe? I do not see that way. It works for me good.

I use a 1999 car regards
Fern

[AdminX]

I always was the guy who did not want to give up my paper books but once I started reading books on the kindle app for my android phone I have never gone back!! The reading experience is great!

Yes I read books on the kindle app on my Windows phone. Nice and convenient. But a tablet - no. My phone is always with me, a tablet is not. As I said above, I do have a tablet but it sits and gathers dust. I've had a bit of a play around with it, but that is all. At home, my full fat desktop PC is totally brilliant, out and about it is the phone. No need for a tablet in my life.

For me it is the other way around. I have a smartphone which I use for calls and GPS. My tablet I use for reading my books, reading the news, monitoring social networks and quick games of chess online. My Desktops and Laptops I use for muscle work apps.

[mephisto]

Let's put it this way.
If you want to play against top commercial program's such as Komodo, Hiarcs, ChessGenius, Shredder on a nice 9" screen anywhere for only £5 per apps plus there are many very strong chess programs that are free like Stockfish, then buy an iPad.
My wife bought me mine for my sixtieth birthday and now my Microsoft dinosaur desktop, notebook, tablet just sits there redundant in the front room.
My emails, bank account, maps, everything I would ever want is there twenty four hours a day wherever I am in the world just at a press of an icon. No more waiting half an hour for Windows to boot up.
I've had many old Microsoft tablets in the past but they just don't compare with the iPad and as a computer chess enthusiast the iPad is brilliant!!
Bryan