Mossberg ditched his laptop for an iPad while traveling

Walt Mossberg, from The Wall Street Journal, decided to leave his laptop at home and travel to Paris with an iPad. This was a week-long working vacation and he posted an assessment of his experience with the iPad.



Interestingly, I have just run into one of the issues Mr. Mossberg mentioned while using my iPad. I have a number of PDF documents that I've "marked-up" with highlighting and comments, etc. I really like doing this rather than printing everything out. By marking up a PDF or even a Word document, I don't have to waste the paper, I can store it in Dropbox and have access from basically anywhere, and the mark-ups are dated and legible (sadly, I can't read my own writing) and much more functional for my uses. I spent the better part of an afternoon looking at reviews and trying different iPad apps to find one that will let me see the mark-ups. I found some that would allow me to mark-up a document (even though they didn't allow for use beyond the iPad, no exporting, etc). However, I didn't find anything that would let me see mark-ups I'd made previously with Adobe Acrobat.

As for Mr. Mossberg's mention of Ping from within iTunes, I haven't tried that yet, and I'm guessing if it isn't available, it will be soon in the iOS 4.2 update coming in Nov! This is one of the few issues I've found with my iPad so far.

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