Review: Air Display turns iPad into pricy secondary display

$499 for a 9-inch secondary display? Before you write it off as a terrible idea, read on. The iPad and Air Display may surprise you.

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[Dawn Falcon]

I was rather expecting this functionality to be provided by Apple, as a major selling point!

 

[Dawn Falcon]

Neat!

I was rather expecting this functionality to be provided by Apple, as a major selling point!

If it uses 23% of the CPU to do something on that second window, that doesn't sound like something Apple would live with. They'd wait until they got something on the order of Microsoft's Remote Desktop client, where actual commands are issued.

Yea, I mean I was expecting something like RD, rather than an app which is as you and the article note not really optimal...

 

[Dawn Falcon]

They just cut their loses for a while because the technology just wasn't up to the job

Gotta disagree, I had and found very useful several Fujitsu Stylistics (mostly 1200's) over the years. No, the battery life and weight were not ideal, by a long shot, but they were decent enough "slate" PC's.

(I used them heavily in landscape mode for reading PDF's, using a 3rd party annotation program...)

 

[Dawn Falcon]

In 1998? Pen Windows was abominable. It was a rushed product thrown out there to head off companies like Go hijacking the Pen OS market with PenPoint, and in the end didn't matter as the whole idea was premature anyway.

The 1200 came with some pretty usable pen software. Can't remember *which* at this remove, but it wasn't the basic microsoft tools.