Well they are here, and finally I was able to grab some time on one, albeit via my local apple store, rather than sitting on my couch.

So there has been much written about how the ipad will be a game changer for real estate agents. For that I am not so sure, but like most things apple do, it does change the game nonetheless.

It’s not so much what the ipad does, its more what my current laptop doesn’t, or how comparatively cumbersome my laptop now feels.

I think that the ipad is the best way to read the news online.

The scale of  it feels to me just like holding a magazine, without having to live with the discarded slab of paper until I finally get around to recyling it.

Since playing with one, it just seems silly to be reading the New York Times or the UK’s Guardian, newspaper on my laptop. Ergomically laptops have never fitted the lap at all. The landscape nature of the screen did not fit the portrait nature of the media. The opening of the screen, the constant adjustment of the screen angle as I settle down into my chair. When your done, you just put it down, no closing the lid, which now seems very outdated.

I am not so sure that its a device for doing, all this speak of using it to sign contracts and rewriting the rule book for real estate technology seems quite a reach. I do think though that its a cute device to show clients your presentation on, and you can certainly wow them with your comfort with technology.

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