iPad

[Captain...]

I did, courtesy of Manchester medical school. Pretty nifty, all our course content is uploaded onto it, no longer will I swim in booklets, textbooks and handouts.

So the course you are doing is free?

[Bryn]

Well actually if you'd like me to be equally smart arsed, I pay £3,465 a year and receive training worth £250,000. So we do pretty well.

[Bellend Sebastian]

The nexus 7 is too small for me, you may as well be on your phone.

If you have an iphone and other apple products you are better off with an ipad as it is all compatible and can synchronise things better.

If you have an android phone an android tablet would make more sense, but it is not the be all and end all.

The Ipad has more apps and features than the others and a better camera and display, but unless there is something specific you want an Ipad for they all play music and videos etc

I bought the Asus EEE pad transformer recently, has a detachable keyboard that also acts as an extra battery, so you can just slot it in and it charges the tablet and provides a physical keyboard should the need arise to type a long winded post, normally in response some idiot on here, although saying that it does find this website troublesome, but that seems to be more down to the browser than the tablet.

I love it, but it was a totally frivolous purchase, and there are some frustrating things about it, there are plenty of android tablet options I think the new Acer tablet is one of the best value for money wise, but not as powerful as some of the others.

That's helpful, the missus only wants to go on the internet on something that is bigger than her phone and watch videos without having to go through the pain of turning on her super encrypted laptop.

She's got an old ipod but I've managed to completely avoid the world of Apple products until recently when I've had to start to fiddle about with some of my colleagues' iphones to integrate them with our IT, and they just endorse my view of them that they're very nice and shiny but do they really do anything that the competition doesn't? Maybe when they first bring something out, but everyone else soon catches up.

You just watch though, if I persuade my beloved to get anything other than an ipad and it's anything less than brilliant I'll get stabbed in the neck

[Jon the Hat]

That's helpful, the missus only wants to go on the internet on something that is bigger than her phone and watch videos without having to go through the pain of turning on her super encrypted laptop.

She's got an old ipod but I've managed to completely avoid the world of Apple products until recently when I've had to start to fiddle about with some of my colleagues' iphones to integrate them with our IT, and they just endorse my view of them that they're very nice and shiny but do they really do anything that the competition doesn't? Maybe when they first bring something out, but everyone else soon catches up.

You just watch though, if I persuade my beloved to get anything other than an ipad and it's anything less than brilliant I'll get stabbed in the neck

Don;t bother. Seriously, whatever you convince her to get will somehow fall down against the iPad. There is a reason they are cheaper.