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I have one internet connected device, an android tablet of 2015 vintage.
I have a candlestick telephone. You know, landline, separate ear piece, mouthpiece on a stalk, no screen, mobile only to the end of the lead.
For computing I have my desktop PC, a 2013 vintage machine cast off from work, working Win 7 & runs DS. The final computing machine I have is a WinXP machine that runs Mach3 for my CNC router/mill and Mach3 requires WinXP as the most recent OS.
As for books. We have more than 3000 physical books in our study & I have a further 3600 electronic books on my tablet. I don't use the Kindle App, preferring instead to download PDF's from the archive.org. That way I have them on my machine, readable by any pdf reader I choose to use (including my own written one) & Amazon doesn't get to learn when I read which page of which book (this is information they do harvest). I derive no conceivable benefit from Amazon knowing such details, so I see no need for them to know this information. And most of the electronic books I want to read are long out of copyright ones that I'd have no chance of ever owning a physical copy of anyway. Most of my electronic books date to pre 1900, with a few as new as the 1920's.
I miss the vellum scrolls and slate ...
Under my house is my old library still painted on the cave walls.
we used to rely on the travelling bards to pass on the folklore in their songs
Let's see.... Desktop - Check
Battletop - Windows 98se laptop undergoing renovations for retro gaming*
Tablet 10" - magazines, Netflix, youtube
Phone galaxy s6 - ebook, mp3 player
Phone galaxy s8+ - notes, games, ebook
Phone alcatel - actual phone!
Spare - nexus 7, kindle fire.
Yup I do use em all....
*yes, I could go the emulator route.. But sometimes its just easier to use the actual hardware it was made to run on....
(edited to correct spacing due to an issue between Android Swiftkey keyboard and the forum software.)
I do enjoy something as modern as 'Fountain Pens'. My oldest (a Mabie Todd 'Swan No 2') has a median date of 1912 for its production, and I have 3 working ones from the 1920's. I do make them too, so they are up to the minute.
Most of my PDF books relate to early engineering & machining. Basic machining techniques have not really changed for home shop machining, so if you can get round the language, there is a lot of useful info in the old books.
well the books I got rid of included such literary gems as Stephanie Meyer's Twilight series and Golden hands craft encyclopaedias etc
some actually went into the recycling bin as nobody deserved to have the resulting gifts from such crafts thrust upon them by an elderly relative with knitting needles at Christmas
For what it's worth, within the last year or so I have noticed some modelling stuff for Android. I glanced at it on my Samsung cell phone and it felt a bit like... Sculptris maybe. Possibly pricey. Poke around a bit and export as .OBJ
There were also pricey-looking anatomical reference models that reminded me of Genesis (say) loaded into Daz Studio, and you can rotate the 3-D figure and look at it from various angles.
I don't remember if I tried the modelling stuff with a stylus on the cell phone, nd I haven't had a chance to try it at all on the newer Samsung tablets, some of which are a good size (sort of like an iPad) and they come with a stylus that has a nylon tip with a bit of "give" to it, and the slight variation in distance-from-the-screen is tracked by the OS. Soooo, like an Apple Pencil maybe. I noticed that (like with the Apple Pencil) if you go to a store like Wal-Mart they aren't keen on selling just the stylus alone, in fact the physical styluses are nowhere to be found... the best you can do is look at the more-or-less picture of one that Samsung puts on the side of the box that the Galaxy S6 Lite comes in. (In my opinion it sort of looks like the Wacom Bamboo stylus, but a bit thinner.)
As of early 2021 Google has been hosting "comparison" videos showing the various devices. Your results may vary, but I kind of like the idea of having a fairly portable, small "TV screen" -- which the tablet becomes if you pay a $12 monthly premium to Google -- in my work space, to watch DAZ video tutorials on while Daz Studio is running on my regular computers.
The newer tablets also run PDF and e-book content fairly well. My previous UX with certain "e-magazine" formats (like iPlayboy) and e-books -- like the O'Reilly stuff on Safari -- on desktops and laptops and on my cell phone, has been mixed; "Overdrive", a library service based in Ohio (IIRC) serves up some content in a sort of e-magazine format that seems ok on the Android tablet. Just as an example magazines about Android are published this way, and the stuff seems to be better on -- wait for it! -- Android.
In my opinion most indexing is crappy on Android devices... for example the Play Store version on "Google Books". One exception is a thing called Delphi Classics. I have two of these on my devices - the complete works of Jack London (8,000 pages) and a similar collection of Nevil Shute. The complete product index at the end of the Nevil Shute stuff is the best electronic index I've seen to date going back to the early 1980's. Thousands of pages and hours of video in your backpack! Scary.
Most people know that Apple Retina displays are a cut above the others, and I believe there is value and functionality there for visually impaired users as well. The newer Samsung tablets appear to have a stock, default resolution of 2,000 pixels x 1,200 which is bigger than most laptops and even desktops.
Here are a couple of sample screens from the Samsung tablet. The first one shows a page from the Delphi catalog; Rafael Sabatini (red arrow) wrote "Captain Blood", and "Saki" was the pen name of H.H. Munro. The original screenshots were 2,000 pixels wide and no compression (of course).
I'd like to stress the convenient, flat display - so unlike large ungainly trade paperbacks or (shudder) coffee table art books.
I claim fair use on the screenshot of "e-Peanuts" from the Los Angeles Times.
P.S. Also attached, a rendering of Predatron's Low-Res Dog, wearing the helmet and goggles from V4 Brazen in the Daz store. I modified the dog textures and used some of Jgreenlees' leather shaders for Iray, and I sent the render to the tablet as a .PNG file and sketched a bit of hair onto it with Samsung's "S-Pen" stylus. First time ever. Note the very fine lines on the dog's tail. (-:
I don't think it is excessive since each device has different pros and cons and is more useful than the others in a particular situation, even if there is overlap in function. The desktop may have greater power so might be best for rendering, and it might have a big monitor or two, making it great for multitasking. On the other hand, you're stuck at the desk. The laptop can go anywhere and is also good for multitasking but might not be as good for rendering. Unlike an iPad, however, the lap top may not be light, easy to read books on in bed and then just set down on a nightstand. The iPad may also allow you to draw or play different games. If your eyesight is good and you can read on a phone and have no trouble typing on the phone, then you might be able to ditch the iPad in favor of a phone. Otherwise, you probably will need the phone too for making calls etc.
I don't think you can ever be too excessive.
anything is excessive if you bought ot on credit
true I understand that.
Right now I only have access to my iPad for some stupid reasons.
I sent my test picture back from the tablet to the computer and back to the tablet a few times.
Pluses: drawing curves (like the thought balloon) feels more natural done freehand with a stylus, but a "real" computer offers better control and is crisper - I'm thinking a vector art package would be worth a try, on the tablet.
I rendered this pretty small in Daz Studio - 25 frames in order to get the propeller to spin. The tablet is REALLY GOOD for blurry brushes to suggest wind and water, and hair under water etc.
an ipad is a huge help if you designing websites.
what the diff between an ipad and ipad air? besides the price tag difference?
size
????
Personally, I like to doodle and a tablet can be killer for working on decorative headlines and typography in general, but today (early 2021) I think the Big Issue is designing for mobile - eg. responsive web.
Am I missing something?