>Is there $500 worth of value for the iPad over the Macbook Pro?
If you're not working while you're on vacation, yet need to stay connected, that $500 will make you feel like a million dollars.
I took my iPad on our vacation in Vancouver late April. It was the only electronic device aside from my cell phone that we took. Rocking that thing loaded with movies and TV episodes on a plane was unbelievably convenient (and try getting a netbook with an IPS screen at that price point). At the condo after walking around the city or hiking in the North, I'd shoot off some emails or map out where we wanted to go next and enter it into Navigon app for the next day.
Not lugging a $2000 MBP around on a vacation is reason enough to celebrate :)
If you're not working while you're on vacation, yet need to stay connected, that $500 will make you feel like a million dollars.
I took my iPad on our vacation in Vancouver late April. It was the only electronic device aside from my cell phone that we took. Rocking that thing loaded with movies and TV episodes on a plane was unbelievably convenient (and try getting a netbook with an IPS screen at that price point). At the condo after walking around the city or hiking in the North, I'd shoot off some emails or map out where we wanted to go next and enter it into Navigon app for the next day.
Not lugging a $2000 MBP around on a vacation is reason enough to celebrate :)