Which is better epad or ipad

Oh dear. It seems that throwing a tablet together isn't quite as easy as it might seem. Like a million tiny netbooks before it, the ePad might seem like a cheap bargain on paper, but when you use one, you find you have just wasted a few hundred dollars.

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FTC: We use income earning auto affiliate links. Apple's tablet debuted in Since the original version, it's expanded into multiple screen sizes and Pro and non-Pro options. I did this on the iphone but may or may not with the ipad. Just installed iOs 4. We browsed the apple store for free books and downloaded a few classics but most of the books we want are sitting on our server in PDF and CHM and epub and djvu formats.

We read some epubs using the apple ebook reader and they were fine. But how to get our pdf's over? We though of using moving them to dropbox and trying the app but then remembered the Calibre to Stanza method we had used to get books into a first gen iTouch. Running Calibe on the macbook and pointing it to the ebook network share allowed us to choose PDF books individually to import and convert to epub or to batch the process. We grabbed a few books and magazines to test out.

Then we clicked the settings icon and choose Preferences, Sharing, Sharing over the net. Keep in mind these prices are just for the tablets themselves. I was not surprised that iPad pricing is so steep for schools; even with its education clients, Apple is very protective of its margins. That simple fact is a big blow to the rest of this article, but if Apple would be willing to live with smaller margins on an education-only iPad, things could get real interesting. I think it may be time for Apple to revisit the idea of the eMac, but refresh the concept for What could an education-only iPad look like?

Making the tablet more rugged would be at the top of the list for a lot of educators. When Apple introduced the iBook G3, Apple praised it rugged design, saying it would be great in schools and at home.