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[ihoop]

Just curious if anyone has gotten rid of their laptop in favor of using an ipad. My God daughter is going away to college and needs a computer. I'm thinking about giving her my laptop and purchasing an ipad, but a little nervous about doing so.

Thanks in advance for any input.

[audit]

It all depends on what you use your laptop for. Go look at the iPad and talk the Apple guys and then research a little more on if you can get by doing everything cloud based.

I would like to get an iPad 3G/WiFi also but I do too much editing of photo's and video's as well as other things that I can't give up my laptop for.

[JohnH59]

I have stopped using my laptop about 90% of the time for the iPad. There's still occassions I need my laptop, such as printing. But, for the most part, I don't use my laptop anymore. Most of the time when I need more horsepower, I use LogMeIn to access my desktop at home or in my office.

[Alli]

I got rid of my iPad in favor of a netbook. I couldn't do simple things on the iPad like upload files.

[JohnH59]

Originally Posted by Alli

I got rid of my iPad in favor of a netbook. I couldn't do simple things on the iPad like upload files.

Alli.

You do have a strong point, especially if it's for college. Many assignments have to be uploaded to the instructors site. Luckily, I don't have that scenario of needing to upload very many files. I can save files to my Dropbox account when using Docs to Go and that works great for most of my needs. But I can see where it would be a problem for many people. I occassionally have had that scenario, but that's when I've used LogMeIn to access my desktop and do whatever I need to do. Printing has been a bigger issue for me.

[ihoop]

Thanks for the replies. I'm actually in an apple store using an iPad now. Sounds like the iPad may not work as my sole computer. Forgot to mention in my post that I don't own a desktop. Thank again...

[liveify]

I got rid of my netbook for an ipad

[MobileMania]

Nope I haven't. I am most of the time on the iPad though since I am like 15 hours online everyday. I need to print something from time to time and that's the time I use the laptop. Ill keep the laptop as a back up.

[jsntrenkler]

I have made the switch ... I use Print n Share to print to my wireless printer, and DropBox for all my file sharing ... It works very well for me.

[Smlk]

I keep my laptop, but got rid of the netbook. I used the netbook for in bed quick browsing or out on the go and my iPad is way better for those. Ali is right about uploading and such. I don't use a desktop at all anymore so my laptop stays as my " big boy" for the major stuff like doing my taxes and handling my more important stuff.