ArrowSmith
macrumors regular
Absolutely!
In December, I visited Munich and Salzburg, for a week altogether, and took about 16 GB of pics, I shoot both JPG and RAW, but even then some pics weren't worth it, so they'll get deleted. A good photographer takes many shots and then after comparing all decides which one is truly the best. I totally understand when you said that "we only keep one photo in 10". With the iPad, you now don't have to take your laptop on vacation. Just take your iPad and DSLR. At the end of the day, pop out the SD card and connect it to the iPad with the tiny adapter (that so many people say "oh gosh, another adapter?!", folks it's just half the size of credit card!!!) and get your pics to the iPad, then weed out the bad pictures, while waiting to fall asleep, and the next day erase your SD card, pop it back into the DSLR: you're good to go.
All the fuss people are making about the iPad not having a built-in espresso maker, toaster over, etc, just drives me up the wall. I'll have completed my Master's this Fall, and the most I've used my iMac for is for Word every week, and Excel maybe once or twice during the last 3 years. Other than that, it's just Mail, Safari, iTunes, and iPhoto: all functions the iPad will do rather well. For a large majority of users, this is also the case. I understand some techies want raw power, but if the vast majority of people just use basic things, the market will gravitate to that demographic.
"The needs of the many are outweighed by the needs of the few or the one."
If the iPad is to replace the desktop for people who only use Office/Email apps, then it's gonna need a docking station for keyboard, mouse/track-pad/track-ball.