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"In fact, I am trying to migrate as much of my communications applications (twitter, mail, social web) to the iPad and leave my computer for actual, productive

"In fact, I am trying to migrate as much of my communications applications (twitter, mail, social web) to the iPad and leave my computer for actual, productive work." +1 on that. At home, I basically use my iPad to do all my consumption and "light" communication. For development and highly intensive typing, I'll switch over to my laptop. When I'm relaxing on a weekend, I find that the iPad is about 80% of my computer time. This has been a huge shift. On the other hand, I haven't been able to effectively use the iPad at meetings. I had thought maybe I could take notes on it, but it just doesn't flow as well as when I'm typing on real keyboard. However, it does rock for demos.

jawngee 17y ago
That's pretty much been my experience as well. Unless I'm working on work work, I barely touch my laptop at home anymore. And I barely have to use the keyboard and mouse to interact with the mac mini connected to my TV, which is a huge win. I still use my livescribe for meetings (http://www.livescribe.com/ http://www.livescribe.com/).
papa 17y ago
Totally agree. The iPad is my "couch-surfing" computer of choice these days. You really can curl up with this sucker or lie on your back comfortably while reading. I've been using it for most of my reading (newspapers, books, magazines). A lot of my surfing and a lot more video consumption than I had expected. The sketching apps are great. I bought a little stylus to help out where fingers fall short. I'm doing a lot more drawing than ever b/c of the facility and convenience of drawing on the pad. The comic book readers are great (I use comic reader mobi). I hadn't read a comic or graphic novel in years, but they just looks so gorgeous on the ipad that I've been voraciously catching up on various comics that I would have otherwise ignored. I find myself using the iphone much less when at home and the laptop has been relegated to "work"/upright/serious stuff. iPad, for me, is something of a leisure computer. If that makes any sense...
- swernli 17y ago
  Makes perfect sense to me, as that is my use as well. I find myself very rarely turning to my laptop at home. iPad for web browsing, video watching when I'm not in front of the netflix enabled xbox 360, and pretty much all communication, with my iPhone picking up the slack in the text messaging department. For me, it's definitely not a complete laptop replacement, but at home I wasn't really fully utilizing my laptop anyway, so this ends up being more than perfect.
tjogin 17y ago
Maybe with a stylus (they exist) you could take handwritten notes, basically treating it just like a paper notepad.

jawngee 17y ago

That's pretty much been my experience as well. Unless I'm working on work work, I barely touch my laptop at home anymore. And I barely have to use the keyboard and mouse to interact with the mac mini connected to my TV, which is a huge win. I still use my livescribe for meetings (http://www.livescribe.com/ http://www.livescribe.com/).

papa 17y ago

Totally agree. The iPad is my "couch-surfing" computer of choice these days. You really can curl up with this sucker or lie on your back comfortably while reading. I've been using it for most of my reading (newspapers, books, magazines). A lot of my surfing and a lot more video consumption than I had expected. The sketching apps are great. I bought a little stylus to help out where fingers fall short. I'm doing a lot more drawing than ever b/c of the facility and convenience of drawing on the pad. The comic book readers are great (I use comic reader mobi). I hadn't read a comic or graphic novel in years, but they just looks so gorgeous on the ipad that I've been voraciously catching up on various comics that I would have otherwise ignored. I find myself using the iphone much less when at home and the laptop has been relegated to "work"/upright/serious stuff. iPad, for me, is something of a leisure computer. If that makes any sense...

swernli 17y ago
Makes perfect sense to me, as that is my use as well. I find myself very rarely turning to my laptop at home. iPad for web browsing, video watching when I'm not in front of the netflix enabled xbox 360, and pretty much all communication, with my iPhone picking up the slack in the text messaging department. For me, it's definitely not a complete laptop replacement, but at home I wasn't really fully utilizing my laptop anyway, so this ends up being more than perfect.

tjogin 17y ago

Maybe with a stylus (they exist) you could take handwritten notes, basically treating it just like a paper notepad.