Give Your Media Room to Stretch Out
If you haven't yet purchased an iPad, I strongly urge you to consider getting the highest-capacity model you can afford.
I needed to have an iPad the first day it was available, so I ordered two: a 16 GB iPad Wi-Fi model for early testing and a 32 GB iPad Wi-Fi+3G model that would become the one I use. After running into space limits when syncing the Wi-Fi model, I changed my order for the 3G model (which wouldn't arrive for another month) to the 64 GB model. Now I can sync my entire music library, several movies, dozens of applications, and additional media without hitting a memory ceiling.
That said, a number of options can help you keep an iPad lean:
Choose to resample songs to 128K AAC format before syncing ...
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