Barry Lam Quotes

I'm a great fan of taking my laptop out and about.

The job of the iPad should be to be so powerful and capable that you never need a notebook.

In my view the tablet and the PC are different. You can do things with the tablet if you are not encumbered by the legacy of the PC.

I really enjoy the iPad because you can multi-task: I can watch a movie, read, look at pictures that I shot - because I'm into photography. It serves a lot of purposes for me.

Going from having an Atari to a laptop changed everything. It allows me to work anywhere I want and send my work home - I can work anywhere in the world.

The iPad is a superior consumption device for material on the Web.

The Nexus 7 is about the same size as a Moleskine notebook, and it just 'feels' like the right form factor for doing all those things you want to do on a smart phone, but can't quite do in the right way. It's not too big, and not too small - just right.

The computer has moved to the palm of our hands now.

I carry my iPad and laptop with me everywhere.

I think that I do about 85% of what I used to do on my computer now on my iPad.

I use my iPad many times a day, and it has cut my use of my laptop by more than half.

Tablets are more intuitive than a PC or laptop. They also have more real estate than a smartphone.

In terms of the technology I use the most, it's probably a tie between my Blackberry and my MacBook Pro laptop. That's how I communicate with the rest of the world and how I handle all the business I have to handle.

I'm not a techie, but I don't know how I lived without an iPad! Mine comes with me everywhere. As greatest inventions go, it's up there with electricity and cars.

To me, the greatest invention of my lifetime is the laptop computer and the fact that I can be working on a book and be in an airport lounge, in a hotel room, and continue working; I fire up my laptop, and I'm in exactly the same place I was when I left home - that, to me, is a miracle.

A smartphone is a mobile computer in your pocket.

The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.

In 2007, everything changed with the iPhone. As crippled as that first model now seems, with its lack of apps and glacial cellular connectivity, the iPhone was a practical, useful, self-contained computer a child could understand. It was an information appliance.

When I first reviewed the iPad, I wrote that, to succeed, 'It will have to prove that it really can replace the laptop or netbook for enough common tasks, enough of the time, to make it a viable alternative.'

If I could get Office on a tablet, I'd throw my laptop away.

I love my iPad Pro and my Apple pencil. They have changed the way I work in really cool ways.

Cordless vacuums are designed for quick jobs, but you need enough power to do the job; you don't want the power waning over time.

The cloud has become the next-generation supercomputer, and the smartphone has provided the revolution to spur its use.

The iPad - contrary to the way most people thought about it - is not a tablet computer running the Apple operating system. It's more like a very big iPhone, running the iPhone operating system.

I had a laptop when they weighed 10 pounds.