Should I upgrade to 64gb?

[MT0227]

16GB is fine. I have an iPhone and iPod in car for music. Once I watch something, it comes off the iPad. It's not my computer, I only need things on it temporarily.

Well....the Elements app is 1.7GB, if the OP is really into that app...there goes about 12% of his/her free space.

Again..it's all about what your media library looks like without the iPad and more importantly what you intend to do with the iPad and what you media library will look like going forward.

 

[HLdan]

If you are too lazy to manage the content on your 32GB then what makes you think you won't run into the same issues with your 64GB? Even the largest trash can eventually fills up if you don't dump it.

It not the point of "it's only $100 more," but rather getting to your root issue of poor media management. A bigger iPad won't solve that. Eventually you'll come back to the same problem of not having enough space.

Look I was where you are once w/ the iPod. I always bought the biggest, baddest one out there, put all 500 CDs I owned on it. Never listed to even 10% of them, but had them "just in case." Then the iPod nano came along. I was smitten despite the "disastrously low" storage. It was like going to a self-administered Storage Anonymous session. I learned to live with less and to only include what I actually watched and listened to, not what I "might" want to listen to...but probably never would.

32GB is plenty. I'm doing fine with a 16GB -- not b/c I can afford a bigger model, but because I don't need the iPad to archive media I'm not going to be using in the next week or so.

Actually I have to agree with this statement. It's human nature, if you have more money you will spend it. Same goes for having more storage for your computer, you will use it. If you have poor management skills you will end up losing in the end.

 

[gwsat]

If you are too lazy to manage the content on your 32GB then what makes you think you won't run into the same issues with your 64GB? Even the largest trash can eventually fills up if you don't dump it.

It not the point of "it's only $100 more," but rather getting to your root issue of poor media management. A bigger iPad won't solve that. Eventually you'll come back to the same problem of not having enough space.

Look I was where you are once w/ the iPod. I always bought the biggest, baddest one out there, put all 500 CDs I owned on it. Never listed to even 10% of them, but had them "just in case." Then the iPod nano came along. I was smitten despite the "disastrously low" storage. It was like going to a self-administered Storage Anonymous session. I learned to live with less and to only include what I actually watched and listened to, not what I "might" want to listen to...but probably never would.

32GB is plenty. I'm doing fine with a 16GB -- not b/c I can afford a bigger model, but because I don't need the iPad to archive media I'm not going to be using in the next week or so.

Actually I have to agree with this statement. It's human nature, if you have more money you will spend it. Same goes for having more storage for your computer, you will use it. If you have poor management skills you will end up losing in the end.

The usefulness of archiving media is a good point, one which I forgot to raise when I posted that my son in law is giving my daughter a 64Gb iPad for her birthday. The foregoing posts reminded me that I am giving her a small USB powered 640Gb drive for her birthday. I have one myself, although I use mine to backup the Windows partition on my MBP, not for media storage.

 

[Jinkst]

First, pay no attention to the churlish twits who made fun of your perfectly appropriate question. Unfortunately, technical forums, such as Mac Rumors, seem to draw those with limited social skills like flies.

As you expressed in the rest of your post about your daughters needs compared to yours it is all about personal preference, of which we have no idea about this person, or the 300 other posters that have made threads about this same topic.

By saying other posters have limited social skills, you've done exactly what you are implying other posters to have done, which is prejudge. How are people going to grow up if they can't make a simple decision about the size of iPad to get without asking people on the Internet, whom it is most likely that they have never met and have no real concern for their financial issues and no knowledge of the persons needs other than "I want to put lots of stuff on there." For all I know this person could have access to a computer once a week and need a lot of media, or once a day and is just lazy.

The idea that someone would base their wants on the words of people on an Internet forum shows more of a lack of life skills than those posters who passed off the question itself on here as ludicrous.

By the way, how's the view up there from your high horse?

 

[gwsat]

As you expressed in the rest of your post about your daughters needs compared to yours it is all about personal preference, of which we have no idea about this person, or the 300 other posters that have made threads about this same topic.

By saying other posters have limited social skills, you've done exactly what you are implying other posters to have done, which is prejudge. How are people going to grow up if they can't make a simple decision about the size of iPad to get without asking people on the Internet, whom it is most likely that they have never met and have no real concern for their financial issues and no knowledge of the persons needs other than "I want to put lots of stuff on there." For all I know this person could have access to a computer once a week and need a lot of media, or once a day and is just lazy.

The idea that someone would base their wants on the words of people on an Internet forum shows more of a lack of life skills than those posters who passed off the question itself on here as ludicrous.

By the way, how's the view up there from your high horse?

I guess I have to take the blame for your having misunderstood the thrust of my post. Read the second post to this thread, as I fear you may have missed it the first time. I was moved to post as I did because that response to the OP's good faith question to the effect that the OP was "incapable of making decisions" for himself seemed out of line. I posted because I wanted the OP to know what I thought. This is a place for the exchange of ideas and information, not for taking cheap shots at posters who ask reasonable questions or so it seems to me.

I think that when you review the foregoing, you will agree with me that our opinions about what Mac Rumors should be about are remarkably similar.