| Supported File Types | AAC, AAC LC, AAX, AAX Plus (AAX+), AIFF, AVI, Apple Lossless, Audible Enhanced Audio, Audible Format 2, Audible Format 3, Audible Format 4, DOC, DOCX, GIF, H.264, HE-AAC, HTM, HTML, JPG, Key, M4V, MOV, MP3, MP3 VBR, MP4, MPEG-4, Numbers, PDF, PPT, PPTX, Pages, Protected AAC, RTF, TIFF, TXT, VCF, WAV, XLS, XLSX |
| Platform | Mac, PC
| bought my Ipad 2 for giving presentations, as my laptop is bulky. Keynote is quite good for basic presentations and accepts powerpoint ppt files too. Ipad is a very unique experience if u have only used PCs before. Advantages are : | 1. Zero noise compared to laptops, if you hate that nagging fan noise. | 2. Easy app installation and quite a lot of them( app hunting can be addictive). More than 300,000 apps, some useless and some good and useful for a nominal price. | 3. RSS feeders are excellent for news, magazines etc. Reading magazines is good in Ipad bcoz of the right screen size ratio. Apps like Goodreader is good for PDF files and good for students, if u need to annotate PDF files etc.. (my biggest use now). | 4. Lots of pod-casts and audio-books on various topics; some even in HD ( very few regular ones). | 5. Excellent battery life, 10 hours- biggest plus point. ( Steve Jobs did not want to compromise this with Flash playing, Well its a trade off to put up with) | 6. Excellent finish and quality as with all Apple products, and the built is quite robust. Ipad is portable... hence u WILL drop it sometime or the other like me, and u will thank its sturdiness then, another trade off there with the weight, I guess. | 7. The operating environment IOS 5 is very secure, with no known viruses yet and hence good for secure sites and on-line banking. | 8. Driving games are so good and easy to play with Ipad, but only a few are worth paying the £. |
| Disadvantages that I have experienced are quite numerous (so do your research well to see if the Ipad suits you). | 1. Limitations in controlling file layouts and deleting stuff compared to Windows, which has improved recently with the IOS 5. | 2. No USB port ( using a camera connector give message "too much power required" even for normal USB data stick) | 3. The need to connect to PC with Itunes for checking free disk space, deleting pod-casts, movies etc was a problem before, which is resolved now with IOS 5. | 4. "Limited" Multi-tasking. | 5. Poor quality of still camera. ( I am still to find any use of this as my phone camera is better than this). | 6. Unable to download files from website with Ipad Safari browser, although other independent apps allow some funcionality in this respect, but much limited compared to Windows. | 7. Only plays MP4 movie files, not the common AVI, MKV, XVID etc, but some recent apps have "acceptable" compatibility with most of them now. | 8. I run out of space with 32GB, so get a 64GB. | 9. Cannot read ebooks for long periods compared to ereaders due to eye strain from LCD screen. | 10.Cannot view video content on websites with Safari browser like flash content, but a separate youtube app ( free) is helpful. | 11.You still need a Laptop or Desktop as main computer. | 12.The need to switch alphabet and numeric layout in keyboard is irritating, but it allows connecting to a bluetooth keyboard with ease. | 13. You cannot change the battery yourself. Need to send it to Apple and they will send back one with a new battery for a price of 100 dollars. |
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