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The iPad is already more than ready for general-purpose computing, which is leisure web browsing, purchasing stuff online, writing a blog or using social media. The kind of stuff my mom does or my friends from outside IT industry do using their computers.

This post was about iPad being (almost) ready to be the primary computer in some professional tasks and this is worth noticing and mentioning.

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This post was about iPad being (almost) ready to be the primary computer in some professional tasks

Writing, which is in many ways the lowest common denominator of all computing devices.

Only for those of us who still primarily use a CLI. Clicking (tapping) has been the lowest common denominator for a few decades now.

Now that you mention it, the idea of a computing device being ready for casual use by those one might affectionately term "lusers" but not for heavy-duty professional use by computer people is so backwards it makes my head spin. Things sure have changed.

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