TightWind is written by Kyle Baxter. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.

John Rust’s iPad review:

Since receiving the iPad on launch day, I’ve used it exclusively as my on-campus computer. I can count on one hand the number of times my laptop has left my desk, and every single one of those times was not completely necessary. Had I known what I know now, I would have bought a 27? iMac instead of a MacBook Pro. I don’t need a laptop anymore – the iPad is all I need.

I’m not sure if I’m willing to give up my notebook. I *want* to–an iPad and iMac combination is certainly more elegant–but I still do design and photo work away from my desk, which the iPad (currently) can’t do. This may change in the future when I have my own apartment and thus a home office, but I still like to be able to work from anywhere.

The same is true for writing. The iPad is more than adequate for writing articles that doesn’t require a lot of sources, but while writing heavily-sourced papers, there’s no better way to do it than on a Mac. I can keep all of my sources open in a separate space and write in Page’s full-screen mode. There’s no way to write a paper like that on an iPad.

The iPad, though, would make a good companion for writing papers on the Mac. Can you imagine an application that holds all of your sources, allows you to annotate them, and then automatically syncs your references to your Mac? That’d be fabulous.