It's seemed a little hesitant, seska, from time to time. I thought it was lag in Internet feed, though, and may actually have been.

dcp, thanks. That's a good thing to know when I'm desperate. But for going back a dozen pages though, the in-tab history was best. Have to lodge a complaint, I suppose. "Improvements" again. Bah.

meara:

1) well, the ipad is separate from your computer, so what you would lose is backups of the ipad on the computer. that's it.

2) you might want to read some articles that compare the fees. I think ATT might be cheaper than Verizon, but I don't recall.

1) If I got an ipad and la la la went traveling with it...would there be any problems if/when this computer went belly up?

You mean traveling with just an iPad? I did that for about three weeks. I have a case that has a bluetooth keyboard and that was pretty key, but it was totally workable for me.

Or another concern?

2) If I get an ipad, I figure I'll want one with more than wifi, since while I'm often in wifi areas, I'm also often not. Should I get Verizon, or AT&T? (Mind you, my iphone is AT&T, and I've not had any problems, other than occasionally in San Francisco, so I'm not super biased)

I have no idea if it's apples to tomatoes but I have Verizon for my cell phone and my iPad has AT&T and ... my iPad gets way sketchier coverage when I don't have wifi.

I know the ipad is separate, but I guess I'm worried if I'm not good about backing up the computer (because I know me)--like, how much "stuff" have y'all with ipads been keeping on the ipad vs on the computer. That sort of thing.

I have no idea if it's apples to tomatoes but I have Verizon for my cell phone and my iPad has AT&T and ... my iPad gets way sketchier coverage when I don't have wifi.

Yeah, that's what I'm a bit wondering about. That and how much data you've tended to use, in the months when you got it.

Well, I email myself docs when I work on them and GDocs work (ish) on the iPad decently well. So I'm not worried about losing a lot.

I've bought music there and tv. I can edit playlists on the iPad.

Yeah, that's what I'm a bit wondering about. That and how much data you've tended to use, in the months when you got it.

I have to be careful if I am using just the data plan. I tend to like doing things like streaming Netflix and that will suck up my plan like nothing else. And downloading video takes a while.

I'm pretty bad about backing up my iPad but I try to get to it every few months of when I bought music that I want to migrate to all of my iPods...

do dropbox free 2 gig on-line backup.

meara,

I see what you mean. I do not have very much on my ipad that I couldn't stand to lose. I used to back up my devices every day, but now it is something like 1-2 times a week. If you get Goodreader, your files could transfer pretty easily to dropbox (ftp, or another service).

Other content: instapaper, kindle (I can go to the web or redownload at another location and not lose anything).

I agree that if you get into the habit of making sure you email yourself a document or two if you have made substantive changes, you don't really need to fear there being a problem.

I find FF4 to be very quick, partly that's the way it's installed and tuned on my computer, but even on a different computer it seemed pretty quick.

I am in the throes of the dizzying head rush known as I Just Spent A Daunting Sum Of Money All At Once...on a MacBook Pro! Woo!

The old iBook isn't dead, but the processor speed can't keep up with my media habit, and the hard drive is damn well full, and 6 years is a damn good run. And it's not like I'm getting rid of it; it can be my Emergency Paranoid Backup laptop.

Now you'll have to excuse me while I go hit "Refresh" for 3 days until the laptop is delivered.

Thanks, Beverly. I'm giving up and reverting to Firefox 3.6 - for some reason 4 is running really slowly for me. I've looked at Mozilla's support forums, and it seems others are getting this problem, but not everyone. Hmm.