Not real scientific presentations, that wouldn't be possible.
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I have a very hard time believing that publication-quality figures were "authored" on an iPad. Perhaps the content was created elsewhere and displayed/presented with an iPad? In addition, there's no USB slot for a "presenter" (slide changer/green laser point in one device). I also don't think that an iPad has the horsepower to actively display/present/control high-resolution structures or fluorescent microscopic movies. Maybe, if one wanted to present some prepackaged content from a pharma company it would be OK, but not for serious scientific presentation.
It's just too cumbersome to be effective. In addition, people look like they're trying to hard to be cool/hip when presentating with one.
Unless I missed sarcasm - yes, real ones. Gave two talks on the Society of Nuclear Medicine last year, a seminar at my institution and a couple other ones. Keynote on the iPad, mobile me or iCloud for transfer and adaptor to connect to VGA for projection and it works pretty well. And I used microscopy images as well. You don't need high res images for a talk since the projectors don't go higher than maybe 1600 x 1200 (if you are lucky). I prepare the talks on my Mac but changed few things here and there on the fly on the iPad just before the presentation to react to what other speakers said. We are not talking about publication-quality figures. And you don't need a USB slot, you change the slides as it should be on the iPad by swiping with your finger, a finger hold on the screen gives you a (red) "laser point".
Horsepower - not that I am a gamer or anything but did you see the graphic performance they get on an iPad?
And being "hip" maybe, but the weight saved over even my MBA is pleasant and I am not a fan of MS PP so I avoid it where I can.
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