Hi Fred,

I'm late to this party= but my advice is DON'T DO IT.

You will gradually b= e sucked away from the umbilical of your desk top in an insidious and frustr= ating manner until you will long for the simple days when you could wa= it for your return home to get email, to order some part online or get an an= swer to a vexing question while you are in a bar, navigate to an addre= ss, find a restaurant or carry on any sort of activity that can be expedited= by connectivity. You will recall wistfully when you could carry your 1= 0 pound laptop in its own suitcase on your travels through airport security.=

Heres my sad history of addiction: it all st= arted innocuously enough. Anne got me an iPad 1 as a present, Xmas or b= day a few years ago. She knew I had NO interest in Apple, iPhones, 3G a= nd all that garbage that you have to buy subscriptions for so she left= that out. I enjoyed playing with it and soon discovered ForeFlight. &= nbsp;Got a Dual blue tooth GPS shortly thereafter and my short path to relia= nce in the cockpit brought about shaking hands and a sweaty neck every time i= failed to bring the spaghetti ball of cords to hook all that up. Abst= inence may have saved me then, but I was too poor to afford the psychiatric h= elp I needed. There were no 12 step programs available in my com= munity for iPad junkies so that avenue to health was denied me. I did l= ook for some ii meetings but could find none.

Along= came Square about a year and a half ago. This gave me an excuse to fe= ed my addiction by donating the iPad 1 to my dental business for processing c= redit transactions and to buy a new iPad 2 with all the memory and other fea= tures available. I got an identical unit for Anne so that the awful d= isease she had saddled me with could be experienced by her as well.

Now the iPad is like an appendage and goes everywhere with m= e. Fortunately, unlike other malignancies it doesn't grow in size alth= ough there does appear to be the threat of metastases on the horizon. =

To summarize the clever ways Apple continue= s to guarantee an agonizing, slow downward spiral into hell I offer the foll= owing observations:

1. the iPad looks like a = small, very useful computer. IT ISN'T. You want the keyboard to b= ehave like your PC one does. No such luck and it will quarantee mispel= ings and mistatements wehre you might want to say one very intelligent thing= in an eamil but instead you insult the recipirnt in rahter graphic te= rms

2. Spreadsheet and word programs are only superficially like t= he ones you know. You are tempted to use them so you do, but they fall= short.

3. Attachments to email? forget it.

4. Your list of unread emails on your desktop will start to resemble a= backed up toilet and will only worsen over time.

5. This list is t= he tip of the iceberg.

The true picture of the prob= lem with regards to flying is epitomized by an experience the other da= y in the LIVP. I have a Garmin 430, two Chelton screens, and a Garmin 4= 96 in the panel. I was putting hours on the new Barrett TSIO 550= for break in and decided to run up to Bellingham. I was frustrated in= my attempts to get all the airport information I wanted because I didn't ha= ve the iPad with me. That's SICK!

So Fre= d, take it from one who has no chance for recovery. Avoid that first s= tep my friend or you'll wind up in a gutter somewhere like me.

Anyone want to trade a new iPad 3 for a new iPhone or Mini iPad?= I'm going to start dealing so I can afford my habit.

John

Sent from my iPad

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On Jun 10, 2013, at 4:45 AM, "Frederick Moreno" <frederickmoreno@bigpond.com> wro= te:

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At our customary Monday morning coffee fest in my hangar this AM (= 100 LL Java a specialty), one of the fellows brought in an Ipad 3 with aviat= ion apps and an ultrathin Logitech keyboard cover which combined to overcome= my buyers resistance.

My wife and I decided it was time to get a laptop with WiFi since we ar= e in each other's way a lot with our single desk top computer at home. = By shifting the problem statement to include aviation use as well as altern= ate use at home, the shift from plain vanilla el cheapo laptop to Ipad 3 plu= s keyboard became seamless.

So, before spending my money, I wanted to check with this group for the= latest advice on Ipad3 or is the dual core 4 worthwhile?) configurations fo= r aviation use. How much memory? (We don't plan to use it for mo= vies or a lot of photos).

Also want to confirm a review I read that the Ipad 3 has appropri= ate stand alone GPS, gyros, and accelerometers to permit use of aviation app= s. One of the reviews showing comparisons of various Ipads showe= d that Ipad 3 and 4 had GPS only in the 4 G versions, but Australian 4G is d= ifferent than US which created a flap over here some time ago. I need t= o check to see if the 4G works in Australia.

Open to suggestions, cautions, recommendations and such.

Fearless Fred, returning to Apple after many years on a MacIntosh II, s= adly abandoned over a decade ago.....

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