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I meant for the plane. You can keep your laptop in the wheeled luggage and use this for reading and watching video.
See, for me on a lot of business travel I'll be able to leave the laptop at home. This will have the full iWork suite so I've got Word Processing, Spreadsheet, and Keynote with it, and then I also have full email and calendar. For quick note entry the onscreen keyboard should be fine. I can already tap out emails pretty darned quickly on my iPhone and with the extra screen space this should be even easier. For longer entry I'll make sure to have one of the bluetooth keyboards in my luggage. The bluetooth keyboards that Apple sells are tiny and really easy to pack, I actually travel with one much of the time already. The cover that they are selling with the iPad can hold it in a number of positions so that you've got an easel if you are working with an external keyboard, or another position that holds the whole device at a keyboard angle for onscreen typing.
ita, I mentioned the Droid GSM incompatibility to DH and he sent me these links for you: [link] and [link]
I"m not sure if that's an endorsement or just "hey, this exists".
I do wonder about the value of the iPad name, not just because of the feminine hygiene products jokes but because of the amount of times people are going to say iPod and you'll hear iPad and the other way around.
A small thing, I'm sure. I think that the main reason they went with iPad was to prevent someone else using the name.
I won't be buying one anytime soon.
Just wait until the iPed, iPid, iPud and iPyd come out.
iPid sounds worse than iPad, doesn't it?
Also, why does everything have to start with an 'i'?
I think I'm going to call the new device √(-1)Pad....
Ah, thanks barb. That's a much better price, I only saw the hardback prices mentioned, o guess, and since there was no other price mentioned assumed it was all.
I use the calendar on my iPhone pretty heavily already and synch it to outlook (that's a big part of what finally tipped me over). Much easier to plan future visits to places with phone in hand than laptop that has to be web connected!
Beyond that I typically have scripts and show treatments in PDF format and already to most of my notes and markups electronically so I'll be able to bring the iPad to rehearsals and run through instead of sitting with my laptop out.
It will be great for scripts. I find them hard to read on a laptop screen and end up printing out hard copies all the time.
Yeah, I prefer them on paper, but I have to exchange a lot of my work with assistants so it makes so much more sense for my workflow to mark up a PDF, then I can send things to other folks that include my notes. I'm actually in a rehearsal right now with a laptop on my lap taking notes in a script and it is, as usual, not the most comfortable way to work.
