On Jun 3, 2010, at 4:24 AM, Jeffrey P Hergan wrote:
>
> On Jun 3, 2010, at 4:20 AM, Jared Earle wrote:
>
>> On 3 Jun 2010, at 09:14, Jeffrey P Hergan wrote:
>>> Well, I guess I'll have to order one. Twist my weak arm.
>>> Really, I'm grateful for your input, Jared.
>>
>>
>> If you go to an Apple Store to try one out, I'm sure you will find
>> yourself using the apps instantly instead of getting to grips with the
>> device.
>
>
> I suspected that that would be the case. But I wanted to ask--just to be
> sure, before dropping a lot of money that I don't really have.
> Now....which model to choose?
I have the middle 32GB version. If you can do it, get the 64GB version.
Myself I am something
of a pack rat and like to collect items of interest, and the 'disk' fills up
quickly.
Just the day before I flew out of the Bay Area, I visited a couple of friends,
him an ecological researcher
with a heavy interest in GIS, her a highly renowned botanist. She had just
returned from a field expedition
in Big Sur studying the ecosystem recovery from the fires a year or so
previous. She was immediately
entranced with the iPad and the possibility of using it in the field.
We spent a couple of hours in Google Maps looking at various places she had
worked, and the general
feeling was one of wonder. The various views---Map/Terrain/Hybrid were
somewhat awesome.
On the subject of saving files and interoperability, and looking at the iPad
from a the viewpoint of a
techno-geek, I wondered about issues of saving and printing and such. When I
first heard the iPad
would have the iWork suite, my immediate thought was that surely the iPad
should be backed up by
a cloud-based repository system for your documents. I was surprised to read
somebody's comment
that you couldn't save to DropBox. Clearly, Apple's model for the iPad is
that there is no longer a
file system---you have documents, and you shuffle them between various
applications where the files
get transmogrified into formats appropriate for the receiving application.
My personal view of the iPad is that this device is going to change the face of
education in many ways.
Cheers,
. . . . . . . . Henry
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