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If you do your planning on paper charts, checking your waypoints and routes carefully to ensure you are not going to come to grief on a reef or sandbar and then transfer your waypoints to the chart plotter (/app), these applications can take a great deal of work out of navigating. I should note here that 'iPhone only' apps will run on the iPad, but if you want them to be iPad sized, you must zoom in on them, giving you pixelated images and poor use of the real estate on the iPad.Д«efore I start talking about chart plotters I really should reiterate the need for paper charts. Watch out for the free apps too, thereвЂ™s no free lunch and many of the features you want you may have to pay for via an in app purchase. Watch out using the cloud though if youвЂ™re thinking of heading offshore data speeds are not what weвЂ™re used to in Australia and New Zealand. So if you have one device вЂ“ say an iPhone, all your apps will work on your other devices (say your new iPad) itвЂ™s all shared through the 'Cloud' a virtual hard drive in cyber space. The primary advantage of Apple is the ecosystem they have built to support their devices. In my opinion, you should not be distracted by the plethora of non-iPad tablets out there. The older I get and the worse my eyesight becomes, the more I like the size of the iPad Air.

Any of the following apps will run on the mini.

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Every new iteration of the iPad doubles in processor speed, because thatвЂ™s what technology does, but the extra speed wonвЂ™t be particularly useful for most marine applications, more for graphics intensive video or pro audio apps.ДЄnd then of course there is the iPad mini. Charging time is down too, but battery life remains the same. The Air is physically smaller, although the screen is the same size, same resolution and lighter. The iPad 3 was the first with a high resolution 'Retina Screen'. I have just upgraded my iPad 3 for a new iPad Air. Steer away from iPad 1, itвЂ™s slow and clunky, the iPad 3 is heavy and takes for ever to charge but the iPad 2 and the new iPad Air are great. iPad are now in their fourth generation and are also now available in a mini version.

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You donвЂ™t need to connect your iPad to cellular data if you donвЂ™t want to but you will need a wifi connection to download apps and of course the associated data. The 3G and 4G models are a touch more expensive but come with fully functioning GPS which works just fine offshore for the navigation apps. There is much confusion about this, the wifi only units come with data assisted aGPS, where they use cell towers to give you a location. Careful though, you need to buy the Wi-Fi and 3G or 4G models, because only they have an inbuilt GPS chip. The iPad has been embraced by the marine industry and there are literally hundreds of great apps (applications, they used to be called programs on computers).

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More and more when I travel I donвЂ™t even bother with my MacBook Pro вЂ“thatвЂ™s now only for serious professional things. Even publishing and spreadsheet users can get by with just an iPad. Handheld and compact, really inexpensive apps, easy and fun to use вЂ“ the iPad converts non-computer users to avid fans. People were in a frenzy about this device that was going to revolutionize computing, and it has. It was the first day of the first iPad and I was in Adelaide selling my mumвЂ™s house.