I went 32GB. 16GB is too small IMO my iPod touch is 16GB and it feels to limiting. 64GB is overkill for me.
I went 32GB. 16GB is too small IMO my iPod touch is 16GB and it feels to limiting. 64GB is overkill for me.
I went for the 16GB.
Will always have my iPhone/iPod with me for a huge music collection (might put a few gig on the iPad including podcasts),
I tend to use <10 apps at any given time so space for apps isn't a big deal (~1GB),
Might sync a few TV shows, but since I'll use it at home much of the time I'll stream most of it over wifi from my mac (~3GB),
And, last but not least, a lot of decent res photos (~1GB).
Total = 8GB. Plenty of room for expansion and to add a movie here or there. I also figure if I find this isn't enough space after a year with the iPad, I'll sell and get a bigger 2nd gen.
I see many people mentioning go big because of movies. How many times do people really watch movies on a portable device on a daily basis? What is the point of walking around with 20GB worth of video and movies when you really never watch them on the go? I go to college, go home, work part-time, have hobbies and hang out with my friends and family. I don't see where I have much time to watch a 2 hour movie on the go. Watching The Dark Knight and having 15 different movies on an iPad seems pointless for most. I will put on some episodes of TV shows that I have not watched yet so I can watch them on the train. However those are consumed quickly and then deleted because I know longer need them. I can only see people who travel regularly needing to carry around movies with them. At home all video for me will be streamed. Also music will not be a big thing on the iPad as it really does not make much sense on such a device. That is space freed up for other things.
Good point, but this is the kind of post we'll look back on in 5-10 years and laugh about.
When our iPad's have a 64 TB drive and/or a constant ultra high speed link to the cloud server, we will all have a veritable Library of Alexandria at our beck and call at any time. You can already see a glimpse of this in people's massive music libraries on their iPods today.
I know some movie fans who would disagree with you...
I would have never believed anyone needed to own 1,500 DVD's, but I have seen such collections with my own eyes. I ask myself how often can these people watch these movies, but apparently they like to refer to them like other people refer to reference books, checking out the details of a particular scene. And when those 1,500 movies take up only a quarter of the drive space on your iPad, I can imagine more and more people will choose to enjoy that luxury.
Every episode of every TV series from the 90's anyone?
...If there were a 256gb iPad available, I'd probably get that, because it is conceptually elegant to have your whole library with you, and 256gb would probably do that for me since I haven't ripped a ton of movies.
Sold. I'm getting a 64Gb.
Chip NoVaMac said:64GB is the way to go....
29.22gb of audio. You don't own an iPod?