Mostly written stuff - I'm a computational epidemiologist, so not heartbreaking works of art or the like. But for me, and actually "doing work", the iPad has th

Mostly written stuff - I'm a computational epidemiologist, so not heartbreaking works of art or the like. But for me, and actually "doing work", the iPad has the following really nice features: - For whatever reason, the iPad does not do the thing normal computer screens do when reading papers, which is to make my eyes slide right off them. So while not content creation, it's way nicer than hauling around a stack of journals. I use Papers for this. - I use either iA Writer or Pages to actually write content, and cut away all the distractions of working on a laptop (like say, Hacker News...). Usually commentaries, discussion sections, introductions - things that need more writing and less clever table formatting. I also use this to write posts for my blog (www.variancehammer.com) which is about Warhammer 40K and my mostly data-driven musings on the game. - iSSH for SSH access to the cluster, and the sweet, sweet computational power that follows. There's something thrilling about launching cluster jobs from my bedside. - Keynote for presentations - PythonMath and Textastic for some musing and prototyping. - TouchDraw for brainstorming model flow diagrams and the like and having them on-hand later.