I quite frankly have shifted quite a bit of time that I normally spent on my laptop. I'm an engineer and so CAD work is restricted to the laptop but for pretty much everything else my preference is to do it on the iPad. Virtually, 85% of my web surfing is on the iPad. This has more to do with where I web surf. On the couch with the iPad is quite natural and comfortable than with a laptop. Lying in bed a night with the iPad propped up on my stomach without disturbing my wife sleeping next to me. Strangely she used to get upset if I brought the laptop to bed. The fact that with the laptop, I would situp so I could see the keyboard versus lying flat on my back with the iPad somehow makes a difference to her.
Sitting at Starbucks and reading the newspaper or grabbing it quickly to do a quick search for anything. Which brings up another advantage over a laptop. Instant on. This feature has solved a problem for me that I have been searching forever. My goal was to be able to go to business meetings and takes notes and be able to review them at any time on my cellphone. I have tried the Palm and folding keyboard stuff. I eagerly waited for the Palm Foleo that never made it. The key feature for such a device had to be instant on. Even the net book with flash drives and stripped Windows doesn't fit the bill. The iPad has solved my problem better than I could have imagined. I use an app called Soundnote to simply record the meeting. Any notes I do take are matched with time in the recording. I simply make little bullet notes and later listen to the recording only in the areas of my bullet notes. I then compile my notes in an app called Evernotes which then syncs to my PC, iPhone and even my Mac at home. Evernotes is quite powerful and matches up adequately to what I used to use which was MS Onenote. What Evernote doesn't have is completely made up on it's ability to sync in these various platforms. The ability to be able to review my notes when those times arise when my wife says "I just need to go into this shop and get one more thing" and I say "Take your time Dear, I'll just sit here and wait for you to come out". Improves my relationship not too mention my productivity.
