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Originally Posted by dmaul1114
I think that's where many go wrong as they view the iPad as a laptop replacement, which it's not designed to be. It's a supplementary device that some will find useful, and some like you won't.
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You are smack dab on target. The iPad is about 80 percent of a laptop. It won't print, broadcast music, or let you have a document filing system. Well, that's not entirely correct - there are workarounds for those things, for some apps. You can't download music files from the web to iTunes - at lease, I haven't figured out how to do it. You can't install a program like TurboTax.
So the iPad is not a full fledged spaceship. It has to dock at the Mothership every now & then to get repairs, change the crew, & take on supplies. You have to start thinking about your computer routines with that in mind. But it can go places the Mothership can't go, and perform some functions - reading books for example - that are awkward for the Mothership.