As we all know, one of the hottest pieces of tech right now is the IPad. It has introduced us to a new way of using computers and is proving not to be a fad. But even though the device has received a lot of praise, there are some complaints about the IPad as well. Some have complained that the device is not as open as they would like it to be. In other words, the operating system does not allow you to do things that a normal computer’s operating system would allow you to do. These things include items such as installing programs that you have created in the device without paying a fee. The software is not the only thing that can seem to hold back the device from openness. Some of the hardware can as well. One particular jarring complaint about the IPad is that you do not have removable storage on it.
The IPad storage comes in three size factors, 16GB, 32GB, and 64GB. A few years ago this would be a huge amount of storage but these days it is barely able to get you by for a couple of months if you are a person that downloads a good amount of media. The average movie size comes in at just a little under 1GB. This means that at most, you would only be able to fit 64 movies on the device at any one time. This may seem like a lot but when you have the device for awhile and if you like to travel; you can go through those movies pretty quickly Sure, you can use the network and switch the movies on the device but that can be a lot of trouble.
A lot of people want to see the IPad have the ability to allow you to place your own storage on the device. This means that you would be able to buy bigger storage devices if you wanted to. It might even be better if it had at least one USB plug that would allow you to add an external hard drive to the IPad. This way you would just be able to store the extra media files on the external hard drive and watch them from there. I think that this would be a fair compromise and something that would allow people to use the device to its full potential.
Even though most of what we have said has been negative as far as the limited storage space, there are good points of it not being removable as well. The first thing that is a positive is that you know that the system is optimized to that storage space. It will be able to run just a little bit faster with the known storage space than a third party device that it didn’t know. Also, it is a Flash hard drive. These types of hard drives are pretty fast and are known to be the some of the best storage devices that you can get. This is what allows the IPad to be so quick and responsive.
There are a lot of good and bad points for the storage space not being removable in the IPad. You have to figure out for yourself, what you can live with and what you can’t.
