Confessions of a (perpetual) early adopter

Via Glenn, an interesting article on the Osborne I (on its anniversary) vs. the iPad2.

I know it dates me (who cares?), but I was/am an owner of both. Both are/were great in their time. My memories of the Osborne are fond, lugging it into an office (they called it a luggable) at Universal Studios circa 1981-2 to write scripts. Wazzat, everybody asked? It was fun explaining, not that it helped get my screenplays made. I did, however, become the resident expert on Wordstar on my corridor. Writers then, as now, spent more time discussing the minutiae of word processing than they did actually writing. Of course, for procrastinating, the iPad2 has just about anything beat. I’m semi-addicted to a mahjong game called Shanghai.

As for actual screenwriting, an app called Celtyx works pretty well on the iPad. It also syncs with your desktop or laptop, if you’re on a Mac. (Most screenwriters, being artsy snobs, are.) Industry-standard Final Draft software is supposed to be debuting on the iPad this Spring, but nothing on their site yet.