The iPad's popularity is turning heads. Although a lot of people have purchased them there are still some skeptics out there.Quite a few people don't know exactly what they can do with an iPad, or if it's worth buying. The information in this article will tell you more about what's good and not so good about the iPad.One of the most popular features people go on about with the new iPad is the long battery life. This is a major accomplishment in a world where people are constantly needing to charge some sort of small electronic device. You can generally use your iPad for as many as 10 hours before it needs to be recharged, leaving you with the better part of a day of uptime. Some users report that it can go an hour or two longer than this. In the end, you can feel confident that you won't have to deal with running out of power in the first hour or two of use. There is an accessory you can buy that will make the battery charge last even longer. Having fast access to the information you are wanting, is convenient and visually appealing when you have an iPad. Having free apps can give you access to The New York Times as well as various apps for other newspapers and magazines, now this may cost later on in 2011. Do you like an easy way to navigate the layout as well as enjoying high quality images, then the iPad is a great way to access this type of content instead of having to use your regular computer. Do you like having access to the weather of Google Earth at your fingertips, aside from the news you can get apps for this.The iPad does not support flash which limits some videos and content on websites. However, this isn't as big of a problem as you might think, as there's an app built into the iPad that lets you watch YouTube videos, the biggest flash site of all.

Apple considers flash to be too slow and too much of a memory hog to be supported. Sometime in the not so distant future it's likely that alternatives such as HTML5 (which YouTube is already experimenting with) will become available. If you need to have flash for what you'll use it for it might not make you so happy. Whether you want an iPad or not really depends on how much you like the touch screen operation and the ability to see high quality images and videos. This device is not just about entertainment, there are many excellent business tools for the iPad also. After reading this article you should be confident in your decision about whether or not the iPad is the best choice for you.