Ray, I'll have a go at answering this. My main system, an iMac, I use for preparing documents from newsletters to books for publication, and for web site maintenance and admin. Prior to my iPad also did a lot of my browsing, email, long document reading, iPlayer/video/TV watching. Also have a white Macbook which I used to use as my portable device for when away from the house.
The iPad has, in just a few days, become the device for browsing, email, long document reading, iPlayer/video/TV watching. It has come into it's own in my view for meetings as a notepad, especially those where I produce the minutes, and also to run slideshow presentations (2 in the 2 weeks I've had the iPad). Sitting round a table at committee meetings, it is small and unobtrusive, quiet, and with the Apple case very easy to see the screen. I got the iPad to VGA adaptor and have been surprised at how good the image quality is projected onto a screen. Built the Keynote presentation from scratch using the iPad version rather than fiddle with an existing Mac version. Am on my third book using iBooks. Depending on your reading tastes the Bookstore is well stocked. By way of example, Peter James seems well represented. Prices range from the unreasonable (50+% above paper versions) to prices comparable to paperbacks. I bought three titles which aren't readily available in the main Eastbourne library, not in the shops locally and were not at too much of a premium to Amazon paper version prices. Reading experience very enjoyable during our few days away in Devon last week. I had intended that the MacBook would become my iMac backup device in the event of problems. The iPad has made this possible.. I was at an University of the Third Age (well beyond normal retirement age) meeting yesterday and great interest was shown by those present. I got lots of questions about what you can do with it, especially email, books, word processing, touchscreen keyboard, battery life and printing. Two people made up their minds to go to the Brighton Apple Store for more information. Two apps that grabbed attention were Sky+ for setting our Sky box to record programmes, and Air Video which I showed streaming video (an episode from Outnumbered) from my iMac via the O2 mobile network - quality surprisingly good. For just general computing my lineup is an iPhone when out walking or where anything else would be a burden, an iPad when at organised events and when not tied to my iMac at home. The iMac is relegated to primarily a role of Pages, RapidWeaver, iMovie/iDVD, iPhoto and iTunes, and as a central repository. Lastly I should mention that I've been waiting for a genuine tablet computer ever since I first saw the Apple Knowledge Navigator video back in the early 1990s. So I was an easy victim for the iPad! Regards, Tony Sent from my iPad On 10 Jun 2010, at 00:59, Ray Packham <[email protected]> wrote: > Anyhow just as a quick question how does it fit in with your existing kit and > what do you all use it for ? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB.
