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Really? No one in that 90% does something like build a resume in Word/OOWriter?

And you can't make a resume in iWork? I think that part of Apple's announcement was more significant to a certain crowd than we're giving it credit for.

If you can hook up a printer, this does everything my sister (she's a social worker) needs to do with a computer, cheaper and more reliably.

(That actually gets me thinking — do we know anything about the iPad's printer compatibility? Did I miss some announcement about that?)

We don't. Looks like the big gap in the featureset to me.

I work at a school considering a laptop program. This was our first question, and we couldn't find anything in specs that explicitly talked about this.

I have to assume that you will be able to print wirelessly, but there's that tiny fear that somehow you can't as a protective feature for the ebooks. Silly question, but can you print from a Kindle or a Nook?

I've never seen a way to do so from a Kindle. I'd imagine it would be risky for them to offer that service: What's there to stop you from printing your own book?

The cost of paper and binding, for one. That's why physical books are so rarely pirated when compared to digital media. Printing a few pages sounds perfectly reasonable to me though.

I can print wirelessly on my MacBook, I don't see any reason why you wouldn't be able to on an iPad.

Except that the iPad runs iPhone OS not Mac OS. Well, I guess you could be running the iPhone OS on your MacBook...

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