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Anyone got an iPad and like it?

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Renegade:
I bought my wife one as well. (+1 for Wi-Fi only.)

It's nice, but I only surf news and play a few games for a couple minutes when I have a smoke outside.

I bought a remote control app to control windows, but it locks the screen, which isn't what I wanted. i.e. Control windows from laying down on the couch. :)

Overall, it's a fun toy.

There's a lot more that I probably could do on it, but why? I've got a desktop to do work on. The iPad is for casual consumption.

My wife has commented that she wants a Kindle now though as the iPad is simply painful to look at after a prolonged period, e.g. reading.

lotusrootstarch:
From my experience buying a tablet, any tablet, without 3G support is a very bad idea. Being able to access content and stay in touch anywhere anytime is essential.

I use my iPads heavily for:
Online/offline GPS nav, gaming, Ebook reading, music, video streaming over Wifi/3G, Ebay, banking, Doc processing, SSH, RDP, public transport tracking (real-time), SVN access/source viewing, Podcasts/Vodcasts, Youtube, Skype, Gtalk, Google+, VPN, and ofc, to control my beloved AR Drone. :D

nosh:
I bought a remote control app to control windows, but it locks the screen, which isn't what I wanted. i.e. Control windows from laying down on the couch.
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Probably coz it uses RDP? I use iTap VNC w/ TightVNC running on the PC. No system locking and supports multi-mon. Great for controlling the music player (audio system) from the bed, even better for pranking clueless friends surfing on my PC. Loading random porn sites when they're trying to check their mail or whatever! :D

Renegade:
From my experience buying a tablet, any tablet, without 3G support is a very bad idea. Being able to access content and stay in touch anywhere anytime is essential.
-lotusrootstarch (October 12, 2011, 09:57 PM)
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We only use the iPad at home, so there's no point in having 3G when the telcos have no sane plans for light usage.

We just can't justify the additional costs for something that we'd never use, or only use very rarely.

I still have my phone that I can do all that stuff on too, so it's not like I'm "stranded".

Actually, I prefer my phone for reading news and most things that I do on the iPad. It's simply smaller and nicer to use. The iPad requires 2 hands to use (1 to hold it and 1 to "use" it), while I can hold and use my phone with 1 hand. The other hand is busy with a cigarette. :P

I almost feel like singing "one hand in my pocket..." :P

nosh:
From my experience buying a tablet, any tablet, without 3G support is a very bad idea. Being able to access content and stay in touch anywhere anytime is essential.
-lotusrootstarch (October 12, 2011, 09:57 PM)
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But then what you can do with the content is limited by the iPad's capabilities, or lack thereof. Unless you're slinging a laptop along too.  :)

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