Now I am going to poke some fun at Ipad people, so if you are one put your sense of humor on and if you need to correct me, feel free.  

I know shite about Ipads, although suddenly now I am now in charge of one.   (now two of them)

My wife is a college professor, she isn't stupid at all (she's smarter than I am) -- but she cares about inner workings of electronics about as much as she does about the care and upkeep of her car.

It's job is to work right -- or else.

She woke me up this morning, saying "Honey, my Ipad died -- can you get me another one?"

One cup of coffee later, I had her showing me the issue -- and it was real, nothing much was loading and what would load was slow as dog shite.

Looked like out of hard drive space/out of memory to me so we went looking.   My my my she has downloaded a bunch of crap over the years she has had the device.  "What don't you use any more?" and then she deleted the icons of the items like she was deleting the actual programs.  

(correction here, the wiggly x delete is delete, in as much as the Ipad will let you delete anything anyway)   We managed to open up a total of 4 gigs of  "hard drive" space after tossing what she didn't use any more.


So this morning I did two things, I ordered her a used 32 gig Ipad 2 (double her existing storeage memory) and I went through the steps to upgrade her IOS on her current device and I found where her memory resident items were listed and showed her what was eating up her 1 gig of systems memory.

She will now go to her Ipad expert at work to see about reclaiming part of that 1 gig of systems memory.

She is going to need two each Ipad2s for the same reason she has 3 Windows laptops --- so she can have one running and one backup ready at hand and one in the shop.

Now, the fun poking part -- last time she was so panicky and distraught over something it was our pre-teenage daughter that was bleeding.  

Them Ipads are SERIOUS business to those who are addicted to them.

https://gigaom.com/2013/05/22/how-google-plans-to-rule-the-computing-world-throu
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"In fact, I’d go so far as to say, within a year, many of you will be using a Chromebook.

Before you roll your eyes, let me add one caveat: That Chromebook won’t be Google-designed hardware; instead it will be on the Mac, Windows or Linux machine you have at that time."



Yup, it means all them Ipad 2 folks as well, the quick ones that are picking up some of them new state of the art feature bits by using Chrome Browser on Ipad IOS 7.xx  just to get them brand new tricks that Apple won't give them (mainly because Apple wants them to go buy an Ipad 3 or Ipad 4 instead).