Take Control of Working with Your iPad

Chapter 2. Adopt the Right Mindset

In order to be happy and productive with your iPad as a tool for getting work done, it's essential that you start with the right expectations. In my brief time as an iPad owner, I've discovered from my own use and by talking to lots of other iPad users that a certain frame of mind leads to a far greater satisfaction with the product.

I think this mindset can be expressed as a set of four principles, which I describe in the next few pages:

• Don't Think of It as a Computer

• Adopt the Pioneering Spirit

• Expect Change

• Take It with You Everywhere

Don't Think of It as a Computer

Let's get this out of the way right up front: the iPad is no substitute for a conventional computer. It may be tempting to think of it as a computer—after ...