I just installed an iPad for our sales guy - the iPad acts like a giant remote control for powerpoint (or whatever the apple eqivalent of powerpoint is).
It shows you thumbnails of all the slides, lets you click between them and read notes - all while the iPad displays the main presentation on it's video port.
You can even make edits with the on-screen keyboard - while the presentation is running.
Compare that with any conference you have been to with Powerpoint on a PC.
During the 5mins of trying to make powerpoint appear on the non-primary display of the laptop you then get introduced to the owners desktop, the photos of his kids, all the little popup reminders from explorer, the cell phone sync software, the corporate login complaining that it can find the domain controller.
Then if they need to switch to another slide you have to drop back into edit mode, and wait while they navigate through powerpoint to the slide and restart the view again.
If I was presenting to anything more important than a parent-teacher conference, the iPad would be worth it for that alone.
I just installed an iPad for our sales guy - the iPad acts like a giant remote control for powerpoint (or whatever the apple eqivalent of powerpoint is).
It shows you thumbnails of all the slides, lets you click between them and read notes - all while the iPad displays the main presentation on it's video port. You can even make edits with the on-screen keyboard - while the presentation is running.
Compare that with any conference you have been to with Powerpoint on a PC. During the 5mins of trying to make powerpoint appear on the non-primary display of the laptop you then get introduced to the owners desktop, the photos of his kids, all the little popup reminders from explorer, the cell phone sync software, the corporate login complaining that it can find the domain controller.
Then if they need to switch to another slide you have to drop back into edit mode, and wait while they navigate through powerpoint to the slide and restart the view again.
If I was presenting to anything more important than a parent-teacher conference, the iPad would be worth it for that alone.