<p>It’s a nice additional device that complements a desktop or laptop.</p>
<p>I’ve had mine for a few weeks and it’s a wonderful device. I can walk around the house with it instead of being tied down to a desk. I have laptops too but they’re a little unwieldy to move around a lot. The iPad has 10+ hours of battery life and it charges off USB ports so I don’t have to carry around an external power adapter. I have the iPod connectors at home and office so I can just plug them into the iPad to charge it and I don’t have to worry about power.</p>
<p>It is a wonderful device in that you can take it to someone to show them something. Before the iPad, you’d bring them over to whereever your device was to show them something.</p>
<p>I don’t miss flash. I think that it’s just a product of convenience on the web and I’m hoping that the web goes on to something else that’s open.</p>
<p>You can write on it if you wish using an external bluetooth keyboard.</p>
<p>It has VPN built into the operating system so I can connect into my office. I understand that there may be VNC and telnet tools.</p>
<p>I pop the iPad in my tennis bag as my club has WiFi and I can check stocks or email or news when we’re done with matches. I understand that I can also set it up to make phone calls with Skype. I’ll get around to setting that up one of these days.</p>
<p>It’s somewhat of a liberating device. It can be used for some of the things that I used to use a laptop for.</p>
<p>I am trying to decide between a large kindle and an iPad and it is driving me crazy. I have a netbook that I love and I think what I really want is an ereader, so I am leaning toward the kindle, but I keep going back and forth…</p>
<p>I went through the iBookstore with my daughter last night and the number of titles was underwhelming. She was looking for Garfield or Calvin and Hobbs. I haven’t tried Amazon’s e-bookstore - do they have a gazillion titles? I suppose that I could download the Kindle app for iPad and take a look.</p>
<p>I’ve hooked up my iMac Bluetooth keyboard to the iPad and it greatly improves the device for entering a lot of text.</p>
<p>I want to be able to plug an iPad into a video projector and use it as a presentation tool, but it looks like you can’t mirror the iPad display onto a projection screen. I would like to then be able to draw and circle things on the iPad and have it show up on the projections screen, but this does not seem possible, right?</p>
<p>I know about this connector, but when I read the reviews at this web site, I see exactly the complaints that I am referring to. There does not appear to be an ability to mirror the iPad display or to point at things or mark things during a presentation.</p>
<p>The iPad is definitely not a computer replacement. It is an entertainment device. If you are considering a Kindle vs iPad, the iPad will definitely give you much more bang-per-buck, but there are also many more distractions on the iPad.</p>