This will be my first blog post completely done on the iPad. For what Joy and I wanted one for, this thing is fantastic. Virtual keyboard (I'm actually typing on the touchscreen now) is so nice. Touchscreen, no mouse, just touch it and it's yours. Auto screen orientation, portrate/landscape with the flick of your wrist. And this thing sucks WiFi out of the thin air like you wouldn't believe. All in all I'm tickled to death about this thing. But there are some limitations I am slowly discovering. Whether I can overcome the pesty little obstacles is the real challenge. Some of which I have no control over.
I took it GeoCaching with me on the last day os 2010 and was amazed I was able to type my "find" reports while standing in the middle of all three parks on Highland Ave within feet of the actual GeoCache. I hope to be able to do the same when I take the iPad with me when I hunt for Civil War Relics across the South. Battery life on the iPad is also phenomenal usually lasting me all day. Small enough to always have the little sucker with you, I just don't see that many laptops or notebook computers out there that fit that bill as nice as the iPad does.
Some of the drawbacks I have discovered are:
Slippery as a Redhead coated with bacon grease! With very. Little around the edge of the screen for you to grab onto, you pretty much have to rely on your grip of the smooth chrome plated back panel. The solution is simple, buy a case dummy. You need one to protect it anyway. We got a nice leather case from Office Depot for a little over $50.00 that also has a super usable hand strap so you can even use it while walking.
Adobe Flash Content. Forget it, apparently Apple and Adobe are in the middle of some type of pissing war and I am the looser. So, it'll do a .PDF document, but anything that requires Adobe's Flash Player is just a dream.
Where's my picture? One of the draws to the iPad is it's amazing HD graphics capability. Well they dropped the ball with a little connectivity issue. No USB port! Can't plug your digital camera/video camera into the iPad unless you give them more money ($30.00) and buy their combo USB/memory card reader. And that leaves me feeling somewhat duped! The other graphic related issue is that no web based image storage site "see's" the iPad as a viable device from which you can upload your images from.
So, a lot of good, a few bad, but in the end I'm very pleased with it so far. It's almost 2am now and I gotta be up at 4am so I'll cut it off here for now and post updates as I get the urge.
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