'Hey guys i'm thinking about doing XYZ'
- don't
- nah, rather don't
- well, you could, but i don't recommend it
- don't
- meh ... don't
'Okay, I think i'll do it!'
and no, i'm not implying anything. It could be a CD you got as a gift, it could be promotional, or a mixtape someone gave you. Not judging here. Just saying that getting music onto your iPad without having to use 'the family computer' would be iTunes store only.
and it was merely 89% saracsm.
and while i can't tell whether or not you deserve my respect as a person (you very well might be a perfectly decent guy, i just cannot tell from an online forum), i do not respect the 'i want a luxury item, so i better put seven mortgages on my house, sell my laptop and my car, so i can have this ... NOW!'-attitude which this thread consists of.
what you are suggesting is by no means a reasonable thing to do. You're willing to give up a necessary item for a luxury item, and that's just bad decisionmaking.
But yeah, it's your decision, your money, your Macbook, so go ahead, make your own mistakes. I just don't see the point in opening up a thread if you're gonna ignore people's recommendations anyways.
EDIT:
oh something else:
EDIT: Just realized that DropBox would help my file-sharing woes.
dropbox is awesome for synching files between a PC/Mac and the iPad. it will not replace a file system.
you can NOT move files around on the iPad itself. You cannot create files. you cannot really save files from other apps inside your dropbox.
apart from photos / videos, the dropbox iPad app is pretty much on the recieving end of the whole cloud storage ecosystem.