Ipad is really nice!

The Apple Ipad was released earlier this month and after testing, it is found to be a very useful, although NOT a pc, tool!

I use it to surf the web, do light documents with Apple's proprietary document kit (Pages, Numbers, Keynote). These documents are compatible with MS Office.

The Ipad is feature rich and fun. It is NOT a pc. In other words, there is no removable media capability, i.e. no thumb drive port, no zip disk, no cd/dvd drive, and no "real" hard drive (it uses flash drive).

If you have or have had an ipod or itouch, or even iphone, you will know instantly how to use the Ipad. It does require you to "dock" to a pc / mac computer to initialize and register the device then again for any future file transfers (pictures, documents, videos, movies, etc. Apple calls this a synch.

Short report.... summed up, my family needed an additional "laptop" mainly for internet and quick documents. This fits the bill and is very FUN to use!! Better yet, the ibooks e-reader is fantastic and free! And you can download ibooks from their store or from Amamzon's kindle store. All the books are there on kindle, but magazine and newspapers not yet available for the ipad.