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Thread ID: 126325	2012-08-21 02:44:00	iPad - which model do you recommend?	John H (8)	Press F1

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1295924	2012-08-23 05:43:00	You could of course wait for the Microsoft Surface to surface.. Rumor on the street it will be about NZ$450	paulw (1826)
1295925	2012-08-23 05:47:00	You could of course wait for the Microsoft Surface to surface.. Rumor on the street it will be about NZ$450 I don't believe that price for a minute.	Nick G (16709)
1295926	2012-08-23 06:08:00	I can see the same scenario with Tablets that we have seen LCD/plasma TV's,total saturation in the market place	Lawrence (2987)
1295927	2012-08-23 06:46:00	I don't have a tablet .. I just put up with it, have other priorities but I can see why they are popular. In terms of the "casual" consumer side of things, to me there appears to be a wider type of software being available and being free or cheap and afaik the battery doesn't crap out after a few hours. It is cheaper than a normal laptop and more portable. The average person probably don't use enough of the office suite. If they do then they may have a tablet and a laptop.	Nomad (952)
1295928	2012-08-23 07:43:00	I can see the same scenario with Tablets that we have seen LCD/plasma TV's,total saturation in the market place Maybe, Maybe not. What's I'd like and would pay for is a tablet with a TV tuner built in. A 7incher with a Tv tuner, DLNA, NFC, maybe a HDMI port. And a sd card slot. Media beast.	Nick G (16709)
1295929	2012-09-01 01:36:00	Well, just to update those of you who gave helpful advice. I took Herself in to buy her iPad yesterday, having given her a summary of the advice you folks gave about which model to buy. I asked the salesman to show her both the iPad2 and the 3rd gen iPad so she could see the differences, and I walked away to look wistfully at android devices so that I couldn't influence things and it would be her own choice. She chose the iPad2. She didn't see any advantage in spending an extra $150 for the 3rd gen given her likely usage. However, she is also a frugal soul, so maybe it was just the price and the fact that all the hospital bills aren't yet in... I have had to do the setting up, and even though I was a Mac user from about 1986 to 2003 and really liked Apple products in the past, I can't say I am particularly impressed with the iPad compared with an android based device. My experience with android is on a Galaxy S2 tablet (and to a lesser extent on my Sony PRS-T1 ereader). All I can say is that android just works. The iPad is counter-intuitive in so many ways, it requires bloody iTunes to work, and the apps seem much more expensive. Android comes with a task manager and a file manager, whereas the iPad does not. I have had to really hunt down the way to do almost everything that comes standard with android. For example, getting files from her computer on to the iPad - not an issue with my Galaxy, but really convoluted with the iPad. I had no problems getting the WIFI to connect, but all sorts of problems getting her email up and running; I missed a button at the beginning of the setup that gave a choice of IMAP or POP, and the default is IMAP, so given the fact that I hadn't noticed it, it went to IMAP. Eventually I started all over again, saw the button and chose POP, and it was fine from then on, but it was time wasted. Maybe it is just the issue of getting used to a new platform, but I didn't have any of these issues with setting up and using the Galaxy and that was my first android experience. Still, it is not my machine, so it won't bother me from now on (I hope). If I upgrade my Galaxy though, I will go for android... Thanks again for all your advice folks.	John H (8)
1295930	2012-09-01 04:32:00	Just don't make the mistake of thinking you need a task manager. Android does an amazing job of managing Processes and most of the time task managers just slow things down and cause issues. You *want* the devices memory to be used, faster startup of apps next time you load them up.	Chilling_Silence (9)
1295931	2012-09-01 04:39:00	I have mostly used Task Manager on the Galaxy to find out what has been installed (e.g. those sneaky little push things installed by Samsung Apps), to keep an eye on what is taking up space and how much I have left, and to uninstall those apps that I thought looked good but then turned out to be a waste of space. I don't use it to close down apps. There is probably no need for a Task Manager on the iPad now I have learnt how to uninstall apps. Thanks.	John H (8)
1295932	2012-09-01 05:45:00	If you were one of our son's friends, you wouldn't make fun of her - all of them have home spun jerseys by now (some favoured ones have more than one), and lots of people in our family/of our acquaintance have home spun/crocheted blankets as well - Herself is an industrial revolution on her own. She had to give up the foot powered wheel a few years ago and move on to an electric wheel as a result of RSI in the treadling leg! I doubt an iPad is going to interrupt the flow too much. Can't beat a home spun jersey. I have one that is 35 years old just on its last legs.	mikebartnz (21)
1295933	2012-09-01 06:21:00	What in the world have you done to it so that it is giving up the ghost after such a brief time! You must be really hard on clothes...	John H (8)
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