Comments on: iPad – Who’s Buying One and What Model?

By: iPad â€“ Whoâ€™s Buying One and What Model? – Your Responses - Apple Gazette

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:53:16 +0000

[...] The other day, I put it out there: Who’s buying what model iPad? Here’s some of the responses that we posted: [...]

By: mac

mac — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:50:51 +0000

that is not an article – and I will not write one for you by answering your question

By: Stuart Denton

Stuart Denton — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:18:54 +0000

I def plan to buy one to replace my MacBook at work. At the moment my business, my payroll and accounts are done via an internet accounting site (kashflow.com). So Safari will be fine for processing payroll and inputting transactions, invoices etc.. The other apps I use for my business are Pages (for letters) and Numbers for my spreadsheets. My spreadsheets won’t be that heavy duty so I am confident that the newly created iWork package for iPad will allow me to sell my MacBook and replace with an iPad. Also I will only get the 16gb model as what with all our data migrating to Cloud based, I will be streaming data rather than having to store it on my hard drive/flash drive. They are already apps out there for the iPhone that will of course work on the iPad for streaming your home music collection, and with DropBox, I can access all my movies, photos, documents online. I’m ready for it…

By: Jeff

Jeff — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 14:59:58 +0000

I plan on pre-ordering the 64gb 3G model. I am fully aware that this is a Gen1 product and missing a major piece of functionality, namely the camera. That said I still will be ordering one because of the functionality offered by the larger screen. My reasons are primarily driven by the fact that I am visually impaired so having my existing iPhone apps on a larger screen is enough of a motivator to buy an iPad. In addition to that, the iPad will serve many purposes in my home as well, thanks to the slingplayer, and ip camera apps it will allow us to effectively have a small TV or baby monitor in whatever room we need.
I sold a kindle and a macbook air to “justify” the expense of this device.