| On the road with the iPad: Can you leave the laptop home? |
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I didn't do it because I'm adventurous. I did it because I'm a cheapskate.
I got laid off in December, which left me self-employed without a laptop computer. I have an iMac that's my main machine. It's a nice computer, but it doesn't exactly fit in the space underneath an airline seat. I know I'm going to have to get a laptop eventually (and I want to stick with the Mac platform), but I want to put off the expense as long as I can. I got an iPad when they went on sale in early April, a few weeks before I left on a five-day business trip. On the iPad, I can do 90% of the computing tasks I need to do. I can use the Web, check e-mail, use Twitter and Facebook, and, most important, write. Theoretically, I should be able to use it as my only computer for a short time. As an experiment, I decided to see if I could use the iPad as a notebook replacement. Not forever -- just while traveling. I know the device isn't intended to replace a full-blown laptop, but that's what experimentation is all about, right?
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