To iPad or not to iPad, that is the question for my readers

Even though I’m your typical IT geek, I’m not one to jump on technology just because it’s new. I like to wait until technology stabilizes, prices drop and the lines at your favorite geek store decrease in size. I’m fortunate to have a Macbook Pro, and use it for just about everything I do. While I love my laptop the size and weight have always been a draw back for me. This week I got to visit the Apple store for the first time in I can’t recall, and I fell in love with the iPad2.

I’m seriously thinking about getting one, though a few questions came to mind:

• How much storage do I actually need? Should I max it out or will 16GB get me by?
• Will the lack of flash be a problem?
• How will I like using the parallels or fusion viewer vs. firing up a whole VM?
• Is the iPad a suitable platform for development and managing systems?
• Will I actually use the TV integration features offered by the iPad2 / Apple tv combo?
• Can I just grab my iPad at 3am and deal with system issues?
• How well do the various SSL and IPSEC VPN solutions work with the iPad2?

I’m sure a number of my readers are using iPads, and I would love to get your thoughts on these questions. I’m leaning towards this model, though I’m not really sure I need 64GB of SSD storage. I like to be practical when it comes to things like this, though sometimes more is actually better. :)

This article was posted by Matty on 2011-10-15 09:19:00 -0400 -0400