My iPad (3G-64GB) came yesterday. Synced up everything and so far I'm very impressed. I'll be taking a bunch of photos this weekend and plan to see how the Camera Connection kit works and how I'll set up a workflow with RAW files.
It's sized so you naturally want to take it with you to places that I'd never consider carrying my MacBook Pro, which is I guess the whole point. It's just that until you actually have and hold one you don't really appreciate that fact.
I'm also having to convert a bunch of AVI movies on my MBP to H.264 so I can move them over to the iPad. I never bothered to convert them on my MBP because I had the Perian add-on for QuickTime so I was able to view AVIs and many other formats in the QuickTime player. The iPad needs H.64 though. I am using Handbrake for the conversion and I simply queued them up and leave them go.
I took about a half hour on the App Store to find iPad-tweaked versions of all the free apps I had on my iPhone. When you first setup the iPad you have the option of installing all the apps you already own for your iPhone with the exception of those that don't run on the iPad.
Of course, there's a number of iPad specific apps I do want to purchase, particularly the iWork apps.
Then I'll start down the path of developing my own iPad app, which was the main purpose for the purchase.
-Jim
It's sized so you naturally want to take it with you to places that I'd never consider carrying my MacBook Pro, which is I guess the whole point. It's just that until you actually have and hold one you don't really appreciate that fact.
I'm also having to convert a bunch of AVI movies on my MBP to H.264 so I can move them over to the iPad. I never bothered to convert them on my MBP because I had the Perian add-on for QuickTime so I was able to view AVIs and many other formats in the QuickTime player. The iPad needs H.64 though. I am using Handbrake for the conversion and I simply queued them up and leave them go.
I took about a half hour on the App Store to find iPad-tweaked versions of all the free apps I had on my iPhone. When you first setup the iPad you have the option of installing all the apps you already own for your iPhone with the exception of those that don't run on the iPad.
Of course, there's a number of iPad specific apps I do want to purchase, particularly the iWork apps.
Then I'll start down the path of developing my own iPad app, which was the main purpose for the purchase.
-Jim