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Originally Posted by Quick6EF
But if my MacBook Air (I don't have an Air) can do everything an iPad can do, then it really just comes down to mobility, no?
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It really depends on what's important to you. For me, there were three big selling points for the iPad - the light weight, the 10-hour battery life, and the cheap unlimited data plan. I had a 2lb. Sony TZ150 with a $79/month data plan. The iPad is a lb lighter, lasts 3 times as long on battery and is $50/month cheaper for data, meaning that is a year I've recouped the cost of the device itself.
People will grouse about the lowered productivity of the iPad, but it's like cars - a lot more people want 500hp than actually
need 500hp. I get pretty much everything done on my iPad that I did with my laptop; the only real downside was the much smaller drive capacity.
Currently, I use an app called Splashtop Remote, which lets me access my home computer from anywhere and view it on my iPad. That means I can run Office programs, watch DVDs or Flash videos, access my external drives, the whole 9 yards. Then I switch out and use the iPad and its apps for the other 90% of what I want to do, which is more media consumption than productivity. All using something smaller and lighter than the latest issue of
Evo. Pretty cool.