Chaudywogbaaga

I’ve been using my iPod Touch for about a year now. I like it a lot, but it is a bit small to read on. I’ve done it, it’s just not a great experience. I also read a lot of websites on my iMac. I wonder if the reading experience could be much different from a computer?

The one thing that makes me interested in the iPad is the 3G data plan. Being able to pull down maps and info while on the go would be extremely useful.

The one thing that is sort of disappointing but understandable is the size of the storage. The base iPad has as much storage as my iPod Touch. It is currently half taken up by music and then pictures (and the pictures are a small format they’d take up more space on an iPad). They show how you can watch movies on the iPad, but practically it can only store one to five movies at a time. Now that doesn’t sound too bad for a road trip but it’s not a movie repository like you would want in your kitchen. A 64 GB iPad would be able to store ten to fifteen movies.

So I’m mostly interested in the cheap 3G. A 16 GB iPad and a 3G connection for helping me when I get lost trying to find a customer’s house.

I am interested in the iWork programs, mainly Pages and Numbers. I don’t have much use for Keynote, although my daughter seems to like it. I do my book layouts in pages and I do some spreadsheet number crunching from time to time. I wonder if the iPad versions would suit my needs while I’m sitting at the kitchen table with my geek friends?

I have an Apple Store 30 miles away, I’ll be taking a trip up there to check it out when they are released.