I’ve been using the iPad 2 consistently for about a week now and although I sense the battery life of the original tablet was greater – I find I am much more productive using this device. For example as you delete email, other emails – especially those of the HTML variety open much more quickly. This allows you to go through much more graphically intense messaging in a fixed amount of time. And this could be the reason for the battery drain as I am using the processor and wireless network that much more per minute.<\/p>\n
Another plus is the WiFi radio seems to do a better job of finding the closest access point meaning less issues of having to turn your wireless radio on and off or rebooting to get things working right.<\/p>\n
<\/strong>Obviously I am not alone in seeing a business use for tablets. As reported by Laura Stotler on TMCnet, Gartner predicts<\/a> a 5.6% rise in IT spending this year – thanks to tablets like the iPad. Another article<\/a> on TMCnet by Lance Whitney reminds us that the cameras on the hard-to-find iPad 2 make it even more useful to the enterprise. He goes on to cite Good Technology and Network World as sources which tell us enterprise iPad acceptance is skyrocketing.<\/p>\n