So, I picked up the IPad on my extended camping trip. Paired with the Verizon Hot Spot, I was able to stay fairly well- connected without the annoying battery issues common with the laptop PC.
The biggest negative in getting it to work was the requirement to get the latest version of ITunes on the PC. 3 attempts at downloading the 60meg upgrade in a fringe cell zone was a real pain. The IPad would not work until it verified that the latest ITunes software was present.
It was very easy to learn. It fulfills about 90 pct of my personal computing requirements.
Blog posting with photos will need to wait until I find more time to deal with my PC. For now, I need to get caught up on a lot of things that were on the back burner when I went remote. One of those things was getting the maintenance on a bunch of PC’s up to date, which is not a requirement with the IPad.
I like being able to set it down and return where I left off without waiting for boot up. I actually take it with me most of the time, but it’s big enough that you will not find me constantly staring into it like many do with their smaller PDA’s.
Maybe I’ll figure out how to blog post with photos from the IPad. In the meantime, bear with me. I’ll surely fire up the PC again some time soon.
