Is an iPad worth 400+ for College/ University Work? What apps would you recommend?

System

fluffnutter wrote: »

So how did people manage in the centuries before PCs and laptops were invented?

well exactly. Laptops, ipads etc are all well and good but really you need no technological helps to get a decent degree!

Azari

fluffnutter wrote: »

So how did people manage in the centuries before PCs and laptops were invented?

We were just better, then.

(Ducks and runs.)

CKhalvashi

fluffnutter wrote: »

So how did people manage in the centuries before PCs and laptops were invented?

I still have 13 folders of handwritten work from Uni, and that was after computers were invented (I’m 29!)

You can’t draw the diagrams you need on a computer, and the tables took 10 times longer than having a ruler and pen handy at all times.

CK

mattyprice4004

Decent laptop for £400, job done. So much better and functional than an iPad.

wouldbeqaulitymoneysaver

Blimey what a load of cheapskates!
If I was an Undergraduate I would have a Ipad for same reasons as you.
One major thing going for it is you have Laptop functionality with lighter weight, and the Apps extend the use of the machine.
Although you will be branded as Spendthrift ignore the skeptics.
The Education Section of Apple Istore is full of Apps that more than justify the costs.
This is one of the cases when it is more economical to fork out than to adopt a more apparently cheaper model.
As regards Degree Class if it helps you think better so as to earn a Better Class of Degree why not?
Degrees cost money, Decent Textbooks cost money, Ipads are being used in Business so it makes sense to get used to one now, Reading that makes the grade costs time in mastering concepts and using them.
There are some things worth forking out for this is one of them.

custardy

wouldbeqaulitymoneysaver wrote: »

Blimey what a load of cheapskates!
If I was an Undergraduate I would have a Ipad for same reasons as you.
One major thing going for it is you have Laptop functionality with lighter weight, and the Apps extend the use of the machine.
Although you will be branded as Spendthrift ignore the skeptics.
The Education Section of Apple Istore is full of Apps that more than justify the costs.
This is one of the cases when it is more economical to fork out than to adopt a more apparently cheaper model.
As regards Degree Class if it helps you think better so as to earn a Better Class of Degree why not?
Degrees cost money, Decent Textbooks cost money, Ipads are being used in Business so it makes sense to get used to one now, Reading that makes the grade costs time in mastering concepts and using them.
There are some things worth forking out for this is one of them.

surely you mean a tablet format computer?
useable ones start for under £150

wouldbeqaulitymoneysaver

Academic work makes it's own heavy demands: hence NetFlix or whatever floats your boat.
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

DKLS

If you pick your uni carefully you will find you will get a free iPad, I know at at least 5 institutions who will be offering either a tablet device or laptop preloaded with core texts, apps and various links to the LMS.

thatlemming

Why would I need an iPad when I picked up an eeepc for £150 thats much more practical for uni. It has a keypad for a start.

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wouldbeqaulitymoneysaver wrote: »

Blimey what a load of cheapskates!
If I was an Undergraduate I would have a Ipad for same reasons as you.
One major thing going for it is you have Laptop functionality with lighter weight, and the Apps extend the use of the machine.
Although you will be branded as Spendthrift ignore the skeptics.
The Education Section of Apple Istore is full of Apps that more than justify the costs.
This is one of the cases when it is more economical to fork out than to adopt a more apparently cheaper model.
As regards Degree Class if it helps you think better so as to earn a Better Class of Degree why not?
Degrees cost money, Decent Textbooks cost money, Ipads are being used in Business so it makes sense to get used to one now, Reading that makes the grade costs time in mastering concepts and using them.
There are some things worth forking out for this is one of them.

They are students with no income - they're meant to be cheapskates.
iPads are not heavily used in business, with a possible exception being sales and 'executives'. The only people I see in meetings with iPads are the 'execs' who use it to access things like salesforce.com in a snazzy fashion

The students with iPads will be those who conned their parents into getting one; will then use it for Netflix/BBC iPlayer/games/snorting crack off the glossy screen