| Not too long ago, all we had was email and the | | | | like the possibilities are endless. |
| internet. We'd log into AOL and send an email to | | | | A friend of mine said he is getting the iPad for his |
| Uncle Fred in Florida, or to an old friend across the | | | | wife because she is home and in bed recovering |
| country. If you had two computers, it was | | | | from an operation. A laptop is too difficult for her to |
| comparable to owning two television sets in the | | | | manuever. The iPad seems like a practical solution in |
| 1950's! It was almost unheard of! I paid $1700 for my | | | | many cases. My only concern is the virtual keyboard. |
| first "post college" computer in 1998. It was loaded | | | | I'd really have to test it out, but on the iPod Touch, |
| with 32mb of memory, a 2 gig hard drive and a | | | | it is easy to make mistakes while typing. Also, |
| monstrous 17 inch CRT monitor that weighed 75 | | | | popular software programs and suites such as |
| pounds. I retired that computer many, many years | | | | Microsoft Office will not run on the iPad. Microsoft |
| ago. | | | | has no plans to develop a version of Office for the |
| Time flies and it's interesting to reflect back and see | | | | iPad, at least as of now. |
| how much computer technology has evolved over | | | | The iPad, iPod Touch, and iPhone all have the ability |
| the past 10-15 years. Now all the hype surrounds the | | | | to download apps, some are free, and some cost a |
| iPad, Apple's new tablet computer which is a morph | | | | few bucks. Needless to say, most are really cool! |
| between a laptop and a smartphone. I don't own | | | | While in Arizona two weeks ago, the thermostat in |
| one...yet. I own an iPod Touch, and from what I can | | | | the apartment was displaying in Celsius, not |
| see so far, the iPad is the much bigger brother to | | | | Fahrenheit! I had no idea what 15C was, but I knew |
| the iPod Touch. The iPad runs a modified version of | | | | it was freezing so I used a free and handy |
| the iPhone Operating System and features include | | | | Temperature Converter app on my iPod Touch. It will |
| email, internet, music, a book reader, ability to watch | | | | work on any operating system because this app is |
| videos, play games... and I mean literally board games | | | | actually a web app, not an app that needs to be |
| from what I was told. The game Monopoly is just | | | | installed. As expected, I quickly discovered that 15C |
| too difficult to play on the iPod Touch, but with the | | | | was 59F! |
| iPad's larger multi-touch, LED backlight screen, it looks | | | | |