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Since iPad, I now use my computer ____________.

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I use my pc's daily for work.

But for personal stuff? I'm using my iPad about 85% of the time and my pc 15%. That 15% is usually when I'm paying online bills and checking my bank details. Not because it's any safer, but because it's just purely quicker and easier on a pc when I want to quickly copy/cut and paste passwords and log in details.
 

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I use my pc's daily for work.

But for personal stuff? I'm using my iPad about 85% of the time and my pc 15%. That 15% is usually when I'm paying online bills and checking my bank details. Not because it's any safer, but because it's just purely quicker and easier on a pc when I want to quickly copy/cut and paste passwords and log in details.

Yea, some things like this just work much better on a PC.

Heck, the online banking site we use where I work doesn't work at all on any iPad. I don't really care as I don't take iPad to work (95% of the apps we use where I work are not MAC compatible at all)
 

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Use my pc for Quicken and banking and keeping it ( and the iPad) and iTunes updated.
 

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dabears said:
MBP + iPad + iPhone = Is like the father, son and holy spirit. In a sense and please no judgement against me. :).

Certainly there is completeness is THREE, interesting thought, but does that make Steve Jobs the creator? Well, he is of Apple anyway. Better not take this one further :)
 

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Online sites that need flash - mostly tv shows for Canada -iSwifter is still too slow.

Photoshop, Premiere, raw file conversion, and there's still no good way of managing terabytes of data from an iPad.
 

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My Mac Mini (mid 2010) is attached to my 55" LED TV and I use logmein from my iPad only when need to. Otherwise my iPad 2 is my main computer.
 

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iPad=InterestingCompanionPad, my Mac is a interestingcompanioninlifemac.

Sent from my interestingcompanionPad using iPF!
 

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I have a number of computer and the iPad is a toy. I cannot go to Dave Ramsey Show on the iPad. I cannot go to Yoville on the iPad. I cannot use Microsoft Money on the iPad. And those are the three things that I use the most.

The Safari web browser purely sucks as opposed to a real web browser.

The iPad is a classy toy but nobody should call it a computer. It is not a computer and it is not even close to being a computer. It is miles and miles away from being a computer. It is a computer accessory at best.
 

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RickyBobby said:
I have a number of computer and the iPad is a toy. I cannot go to Dave Ramsey Show on the iPad. I cannot go to Yoville on the iPad. I cannot use Microsoft Money on the iPad. And those are the three things that I use the most.

The Safari web browser purely sucks as opposed to a real web browser.

The iPad is a classy toy but nobody should call it a computer. It is not a computer and it is not even close to being a computer. It is miles and miles away from being a computer. It is a computer accessory at best.

If apple would open it up it is more capable than some net books. But for now, you are right. If you need power, you need a computer.
 

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I use my laptop every day, because still a lot I cant do on ipad, but I will always have both, I need my laptop, it is just easier sometimes to use ipad for the simple things because it is so small and much lighter.
 

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I still use my laptop pretty often...

For putting music into iTunes, so I can transfer music to my iPod

Uploading photos

Flash sites

And for times when i do not feel like using a touch screen device

And for many other reasons that I can't think of right now on the top of my head

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Still use both my desktop (Mac mini) and iPad about the same. Use the desktop to sync daily. I do a lot of quick e-mails in the morning before work, check the weather on one of the widgets on the desktop. iPad has a totally different use for me. At night when I am chilling in bed reading, want to look up something quickly, things like that, it can't be beat. But I need my desktop for the software updates and like it for the app updates-I sometimes do them through Wifi alone, but I prefer to do them via sync. Since I also have an iPhone, I am used to this.
 

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I have found a way to interface a real computer with the iPad2. I use the real computer to get to YouTube and the pop music videos. Then I use RealPlayer to download the videos. Then I rename them with the artist name first and the song name second and I convert them to the iPod format. Finally I synch them to the iPad2. Works like a charm.

For serious stuff that matters I use a real computer exclusively.
 

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Work. At the end of the work day the computer is turned off and it's not turned on again until I'm ready to login again the next work day.
 

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