I have been meaning to write my impressions on the iPad. What finally spurred me on was an email I received from AT&T asking me to take a survey about the iPad.
Overall, I am very pleased with the iPad. It does almost everything I would want it to. I have the wifi + 3G version. Currently I use the unlimited monthly 3g.
The main thing that I find myself missing is printing. Once Apple figures out how to enable printing to a Mac or Windows shared printer, the iPad would be everything I need for light to medium computing.
For Apple’s iWork productivity suite, right now I have only used Numbers (their spreadsheet program). I can import Excel spreadsheets easily, but until I can export to Excel I don’t see myself using it as much as I would like. Think about this: you need to do some kind of inventory. You keep track of the inventory on your desktop in an Excel spreadsheet. You can easily email the excel sheet to your iPad. You can easily update the counts on your iPad. What you can’t do is email it back to your work computer. Your options (for email) are to send it as a PDF or as a Numbers spreadsheet. I guess I need to see if Excel can import a Numbers spreadsheet.
As for the 3g, I wish that I had the option to use it with Verizon. I made a trip to NY state last week. I didn’t have 3g coverage in NY at all. It was all on Edge (2g). 3g is slow enough. Edge is unbearable. Luckily I have 3g coverage where I live.
