Introduction

The iPad 2 and the original iPad, taken together, are the biggest thing to hit computing in years. Drawing on the best of Apple’s iPhone and iPod touch products, and Apple’s Macintosh personal computers, while introducing a whole new way of seeing and interacting with information, the two new devices have grabbed the imagination of the world.

The iPad 2 has taken the excitement about the original iPad to the next level. The iPad 2 is similar enough that the new iPad 2 and the original iPad are still one product line; they run the same operating software—which is also the same software as the latest iPhone and iPod Touch—and nearly all the same apps. Almost everything that you can do with an iPad 2, you can do with an iPad. The main ...

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