Sprung
After playing with one of the demo units at the Apple Store for a little while and much deliberation, I decided to take the plunge and buy an iPad. The next thing I needed to decide was which model. I’d wandered the App Store earlier in the day and calculated average app size. To be about 10M. That meant 1000 apps would eat about 1G of space on a unit. I don’t plan to load music on the iPad — I have a perfectly good nano for music. I don’t do video, so I don’t need that much storage for content. I decided to go with the 16G model.
I was mildly disappointed that I had to install iTunes on my laptop before I could even get a screen on the iPad. Word to the wise, you will need some kind of computer to synch the iPad, or it’s a very bad paperweight.
I’m looking at free apps at this point. I’ve installed a couple of free weather apps, the iBooks app (I don’t anticipate using it), and the WordPress app, which is what I’m typing this entry on. I want to get Thing for iPad, but I’m not thrilled at the $19.99 price tag. I’ll look at select pay apps after I get comfortable with the beastie.
I put six hundred of my pictures from the laptop on this, and it didn’t dent available space.
I’m waiting on accessories until I have a chance to do more research. I like the “keyboard.” It does take a little getting used to. I’m not touch typing per se, but I’d rather have this format than trying to type with my thumbs.
Sounds awesome, Jean! How does it hook up to your computer?
It connects to the computer via the standard Apple dock connector to USB.
After posting this entry, I installed the Kindle app and downloaded some free books from Amazon. They’re the Gutenberg Library versions, so they are very plain, but it’s reading material. And of course, Kindle, being monochrome, would be a very plain edition anyway (just remembered that). It all worked very smoothly.
Thank you for the iPad review. I’m waiting for the 3G version because of my constant travel. I’m hoping to play with one at the Apple Store this weekend. Of course, I’m in love with my iPhone……
Can you only transfer data via wireless?
Tammy, you can also synchronize just like a regular iPod. In fact, in some respects that might be the best way to do it, because, it appears anything you’ve downloaded wirelessly will be deleted if you synch with iTunes. I really don’t like Apple’s file management scheme for iTunes.
Angie, my plan for that is to exchange my ATT dongle for a Verizon MiFi when my contract is up this fall.