My iPad arrived on Thursday afternoon (I bought the 64GB WiFi model). On Friday night I found a dead pixel so Saturday was spent at The Apple Store in Manchester, sorting out a new one. Sunday and Monday (a Bank Holiday in the UK) were spent setting it up and “playing” so today it got it’s first outing – it came with me to work.
My first job this morning was to reconfigure my desk for my new acquisition and then take a photo of said desk…
So what is on my desk? From left to right…
- iPhone in a Dock
- iPad in a Griffin A-Frame stand. Elaine has written a review of iPad stands on her blog
- 17 inch monitor connected to Vista laptop
- Vista laptop
- 17 inch monitor connected to MacBook Pro
- A cheap USB mouse connected to the Vista laptop
- MacBook Pro
- Apple Bluetooth keyboard
- Logitech MX Revolution mouse
The plant in the background is on my colleague’s desk – with all that tech, do I look like I have room for a plant?
After the photo-shoot it was time to put the iPad to work (well you don’t think I just bought it as a toy do you?). Today I was running 4 x 1 hour training sessions “how to get the most from your Vista laptop” (OK you can all stop laughing now).
I had the names of the attendees in a spreadsheet which I copied onto the iPad. As delegates arrived, rather than ticking their names off on a piece of paper I simply marked them off in the spreadsheet, which I had opened in Numbers. I also had the training course running order and some notes on the iPad as PDF’s – of course I just “had” to refer to these notes during the sessions!
All in all, a good first day at work for the iPad. No wonder the battery was down to 20% when we got home. It’s now fully charged and ready for tomorrow!
Do you have enough room on the desk to actually do any work?
I need a bigger desk Andy LOL
that’s a pretty good array of tech right there! how do you think the ipad battery life stacks up? at the launch, people were talking about 10 hours, but if you’re using the net alot..?
As you say, the battery life really depends on what you do. I probably could get 8-10 hours if I used it offline and didn’t watch any video, etc – it’s these tasks that kill the battery. Just like the iPhone, i’ll probably charge it each night anyway
Mike
A nice setup there Mike, why aren’t you buried under a mountain of paperwork like me!!
Good to see the Griffin A-Frame stand in use there, a much better solution than Apple’s iPad dock.
I can see you only bought the iPad for work! ;-))
Thanks Jane.
I took the photo before I started for the day. It was staged so that I didn’t have to clear the paperwork away first! Of course I could have asked Elaine to Photoshop it out for me! The Griffin A-Frame is excellent as I’m sure you know if you’ve read Elaine’s write-up of it. And for your information, the iPad is for home and work!