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I Pad - Is it worth it? advice please

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  • googler
    googler Posts: 16,103 Forumite
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    bazster wrote: »
    iPad is a toy. Children like toys.

    Come October the Microsoft Surface will be upon us. As portable and pretty as an iPad, yet capable of doing real work.

    Please define 'real work' in this context....
  • penrhyn
    penrhyn Posts: 15,215 Forumite
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    bazster wrote: »
    iPad is a toy. Children like toys.

    Come October the Microsoft Surface will be upon us. As portable and pretty as an iPad, yet capable of doing real work.

    I totally agree, it could be as big as the Zune.
    That gum you like is coming back in style.
  • penrhyn
    penrhyn Posts: 15,215 Forumite
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    Kite2010 wrote: »
    Just wait until October when Apple bring out the iPad Mini (probably), a 7" version of the iPad to try and fight off the likes of the Nexus 7

    If Apple becomes a follower rather than a leader it will fail, ask not for whom the bell tolls.
    That gum you like is coming back in style.
  • bazster
    bazster Posts: 7,436 Forumite
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    googler wrote: »
    Please define 'real work' in this context....

    Serious writing. Serious spreadsheets. Programming. Databases. Anything that needs a keyboard. Interoperability.

    Need I go on?

    Probably OK for the OP's daughter if he/she wants to spend that much on a toy, but you can surf the web and play games for a lot cheaper.
    Je suis Charlie.
  • Katarina187
    Katarina187 Posts: 11 Forumite
    debitcardmayhem wrote: »
    Certain schools are/were giving iPads out free last year to 11/12 year olds

    That's crazy. Part of me thinks I would have liked my daughter to go to that school and kept the ipad for my self :P

    Sorry sinister thoughts!
  • shop-to-drop
    shop-to-drop Posts: 4,340 Forumite
    edited 2 October 2012 at 10:06AM
    As a family living on income support, it's crazy to even consider it especially for a 11/12 year old child.
    :j Trytryagain FLYLADY - SAYE £700 each month Premium Bonds £713 Mortgage Was £100,000@20/6/08 now zilch 21/4/15:beer: WTL - 52 (I'll do it 4 MUM)
  • amk515
    amk515 Posts: 113 Forumite
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    Anyone looking at an iPad may want to wait a bit longer!!

    http://news.sky.com/story/992088/ipad-mini-launch-date-rumoured-for-october
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