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cenetti

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Oh boy I am running low on my 32gb.....
Apps take way too much space....and I don't even have that many.

20mb application on iphone becomes 500mb on Ipad.... ouch!


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cenetti said:
Oh boy I am running low on my 32gb.....
Apps take way too much space....and I don't even have that many.

20mb application on iphone becomes 500mb on Ipad.... ouch!


😱
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Had mine almost a month and used about 1.5GB so far
 
As long as you can steam most of your video, or you're ok with just doing sync on a handful of videos at a time then the 16GB model is fine.

If you are a pack rat that feels the need to have every episode of Lost on there, then yeah..
 
I'm sitting on 99 apps including that beast. The periodic table 1.15 gigs or something and i have the 16 gig. I only have like 300 mb left 😱. Looks like its time to solder in another flash chip 😱
 
I have the 16bg with about 11gb free...

I have my fair share of apps. I don't store any music or movies on it. I sync a movie or 2 every now and then but I eventually take it off after watching it...
 
I have a jailbroken device and the ability to mount an unlimited number of flash/external drives. If anything having too much space is a problem more than a solution..it just means storing alot of crap you rarely use instead of being selective and only have useful things, for me anyways.
 
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How embarrassing!

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Most people I know with the 32 & 64 wish they had bought the 16GB as they have hardly made a dent in the storage. Its not like you would want to store hundreds of movies and thousands of songs on an iPad.
 
Adidas Addict said:
Most people I know with the 32 & 64 wish they had bought the 16GB as they have hardly made a dent in the storage. Its not like you would want to store hundreds of movies and thousands of songs on an iPad.
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But they've only had the iPad for a few months. Are they not planning on storing anything else?

You can never have too much space.
 
Sketchr said:
But they've only had the iPad for a few months. Are they not planning on storing anything else?

You can never have too much space.
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It just doesn't make a lot of sense to store stuff locally these days. People want access to their data from the iPad, the phone, the notebook PC, the desktop PC, from work, etc..

It makes so much more sense to skimp on local storage for peripheral devices, and invest it into something centralized that all the devices can access easily. It's so much cleaner and more organized.

Put all your information someplace central to the core of your network and set things up so the edge devices access that.
 
brentsg said:
As long as you can steam most of your video, or you're ok with just doing sync on a handful of videos at a time then the 16GB model is fine.

If you are a pack rat that feels the need to have every episode of Lost on there, then yeah..
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That's me. I don't like to choose what I may be felling like listening or watching. I want everything with me at all times.
 
I have about 10gb left on my 64gb iPad, the space is mostly taken up by music in lossless format. Initially I thought that the 64gb was a bit excessive, but I'm glad I thought about the future...
 
I usually max out storage on all devices, but I went with the 16 GB, and I have zero regrets. With almost 70 apps installed, I've used about 2.2 GB total. No music, that's what the iPhone is for--it docks with my speakers. No video, that's what the bigass TV my husband had to have is for. Very few books, because I have over 300 stored in Amazon's Kindle cloud. That leaves pictures, and those will either only be on the iPad long enough for fast processing, or because they're part of my wallpaper collection. Just a handful of personal pics will be on there long term--the rest are on hard drives at home. If I want regular access to certain ones, Photobucket has a fine app for accessing my account. Why clutter up my iPad for that?

Besides, buying the smallest iPad means I can justify upgrading when version 2.0 arrives next year. 😀
 
I am in the camp that I would rather have everything local.

1. I have the WiFi iPad not the 3G one.

2. Streaming over the network takes a higher toll on battery performance as you are now using the network connection + the processing to play the file as well.

3. You won't have a connection always. For instance, plane ride to San Francisco is around 6 - 7 hours. And trip back thats 14 hours. Plus, the time you are in San Francisco. I want to have enough content and what not to pick and choose what I want to watch, and not have to really on only choosing a handful of movies/music etc.
 
I got the 32 gb version. I was originally going to get the 16gb one but then I saw that one movie downloaded from itunes was like 1.5 gb. If I am going on a trip I think it would be nice to have 10-15 movies on there so if I am in a place with no wifi, I can have a selection of something to watch if I want to.

As soon as the camera connectors are more readily available I might find other ways to get movies outside of itunes where I can apparently just drag a movie to the ipad from the sd card and then when I'm done watching it delete it from the ipad without having to sync through itunes.

I tried using handbrake with one of my dvds and it took 10 hours to encode and had no sound...I would rather just pay a little extra for a dvd with digital copy and pull the digital copy into itunes.
 
Better to have and not need than to need and not have. I'm still hoping with time more efficient code will come for these iPad apps.
 
Jaro65 said:
Yours is sure loaded up to the gills! 🙂
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I'm in the cloud camp. AirServer gets me my videos, my 32 gig iPhone has all my music, and anything "serious" gets done on my Mac Pro or MBP.

I'm sure some must have apps will be coming out soon, and that might make a little dent.

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I am curious what apps everyone is running on their iPads. I haven't seen much to entice me yet. Guitar toolkit and the Korg app are incredible though.
 
I can easily see apps coming out in the future eclipsing 1GB.

Not to mention the new OS update that will increase actual usage of media tenfold.

So yea, I'd say 16GB is no where near enough. Maybe for now; definitely not long term.

SN: Listening to music on the iPad is great. The speaker is very good.
 
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