So I researched it....
Yes the iPad has some pretty cool features, its a convenient size and if you had one everyone would want to test drive it. So in a sense you could be miss popular or the "oohh look at her" girl for a short while. In all reality it is just a giant iPod. They do nearly all the same things and an iPad can't fit in your pocket or be attached to your shoulder while at the gym. Realistically its just a giant iPhone or a super thin computer without a keyboard. Besides the really dorky name it is a pretty pricey gift. The one to the left was the cheapest I found on Amazon. But I suppose if you are the type of person who owns everything and has money to spare why not. It has some fun Apps and is more convenient than lugging your laptop all the way to your couch. The woes of laziness....
Positives
- Sleek and small
- works better than the amazon kindle
as an e-reader
- Runs all iPhone apps
- More functionality with larger screen
- If you’re mainly a web surfer, note-taker, social-networker and emailer, and a consumer of photos, videos, books, periodicals and music—this is for you.
- The iPad is thinner and lighter than any netbook or laptop
- It has a decent speaker, and even a tiny microphone.
- Long battery life
- Very High Speed
- easy typing
- Generally the iPad apps are much better than their iPhone equivalents, but more expensive
- there’s no contract. (By tapping a button in Settings, you can order up a month of unlimited cellular Internet service for $30)
- It gives portable game machines from Nintendo and Sony a run for their money.
- Apple expects more than 1,000 iPad-specific apps to be available at launch
Negatives
- Basically is a giant I Pod touch
- No physical keyboard
- no Webcam
- no USB ports
- no multitasking.
- No headphones with the device
- Not as good for writing or editing longer documents
- Not good for anything that requires Flash.
- battery is sealed in and nonreplaceable
- Memory, also sealed in and nonexpandable (ranges from 16 gigabytes to 64 gigabyte)
- no stand but $39 iPad case works well.
- iWork works well, a “serious content creation app”, but exporting to Microsoft’s formats (which only Pages can do) doesn’t work so well.
- No Weather, Clock and Stocks apps.
- iPad heavier than Kindle
- Most people need two hands to use iPad
- The iBooks app also lacks any way to enter notes, and Apple’s catalog at launch will only be about 60,000 books versus more than 400,000 for Kindle.
- email app lacks the ability to create local folders – email app doesn’t include rules for auto-sorting messages
- email app doesn’t include group addressing
- No tabs in Safari
- Wifi only version lacks GPS.
- Wide screen view can be awkward. Either you have black bars in wide screen view or you get some of your image cut off in fill screen view.
- There’s an e-book reader app, but it’s not going to rescue the newspaper and book industries says Pogue
- At 1.5 pounds, the iPad gets heavy in your hand after awhile (the Kindle is 10 ounces)
- You can’t read books from the Apple bookstore on any other machine — not even a Mac or iPhone.
- When the very glossy 9.7-inch screen is off, every fingerprint is grossly apparent.
- You can’t read well in direct sunlight
- Pogue: “The bottom line is that you can get a laptop for much less money — with a full keyboard, DVD drive, U.S.B. jacks, camera-card slot, camera, the works.”
- The new iBooks e-reader app is filled with endearing grace notes.
- Apple says that 150,000 existing iPhone apps run on the iPad but many appear or small and dead center on the screen — or, with a tap, doubled to fill the screen, a little blurry.
- Skype (even voice calls, through its speaker and microphone). Just no video
- Pogue: The iPad is not a laptop. It’s not nearly as good for creating stuff.
- Pogue: It’s infinitely more convenient for consuming it — books, music, video, photos, Web, e-mail and so on.
- You will have to buy into the iTunes ecosystem, of course, to watch movies, read e-books and sync up the apps.
- You have to purchase a $29 iPad Camera Connection Kit, which lets you connect a USB camera or import photos via an SD card.
- Baig: “Many people will still need a more traditional computer. You can’t edit video on an iPad. And the virtual on screen keyboard that pops up when needed is fine for e-mails or scribbling notes, but I wouldn’t want to regularly write articles using it. “
- No coverflow in iTunes
Most Definitely a FAD
So if you just want an e-reader Get a Kindle its a much cheaper price
If you are looking for more iPod features I recommend the Apple iPod touch 
. Its more convenient and you can do all the same things plus take it in your gym bag. If that does not tickle your fancy go for it. Its only money after all and you only have one life to live. Just remember to be happy with what you get!
. Its more convenient and you can do all the same things plus take it in your gym bag. If that does not tickle your fancy go for it. Its only money after all and you only have one life to live. Just remember to be happy with what you get!<3 Modish Tech
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