Who's with me on this?
Don't get me wrong, I love my iPad. I've been using it for months and I am very happy with it, no regrets whatsoever. Watching shows and reading books on the subway? There's nothing better. Quickly viewing PDFs with colleagues? Again, it even beats a laptop.
But when it comes to actually doing some work, such as preparing documents and spreadsheets, I always use my computer no matter how simple the task. I've got pretty much all the available office suites for the iPad and I am using them just for viewing, not creating stuff.
Then look at the iPad apps on the App Store. Besides the remote desktop apps I can't really find any other apps where you can actually do some work. For entertainment, reading, quick reference, interactive "education" (i.e. The Elements, etc) and many other tasks the iPad is amazing but when it comes to doing "work" I don't think it delivers. I'm not blaming Apple or the developers.
Anyways, that's my opinion and experience so far, I hope I don't get stones thrown at me... Instead, I hope others can share their opinions as well.
Don't get me wrong, I love my iPad. I've been using it for months and I am very happy with it, no regrets whatsoever. Watching shows and reading books on the subway? There's nothing better. Quickly viewing PDFs with colleagues? Again, it even beats a laptop.
But when it comes to actually doing some work, such as preparing documents and spreadsheets, I always use my computer no matter how simple the task. I've got pretty much all the available office suites for the iPad and I am using them just for viewing, not creating stuff.
Then look at the iPad apps on the App Store. Besides the remote desktop apps I can't really find any other apps where you can actually do some work. For entertainment, reading, quick reference, interactive "education" (i.e. The Elements, etc) and many other tasks the iPad is amazing but when it comes to doing "work" I don't think it delivers. I'm not blaming Apple or the developers.
Anyways, that's my opinion and experience so far, I hope I don't get stones thrown at me... Instead, I hope others can share their opinions as well.