Real Life experience
No way on an ipad for taking notes - it would be pretty cumbersome. Stick with your laptop...
I'm sure its possible to type on it, I can do shorter emails no problem...but its not much of a work tool, its a toy (a great toy at that!)
The iPad is great for taking notes and meeting minutes, but there is a learning curve so I found out.
During one of our company meetings I was taking notes on my iPad in parallel with a company secretary. When we compared notes afterwards here's what we found:
1) My notes only contained half of the meeting because I was focussed on the keyboard and not on listening to the conversation.
2) The notes I took contained a lot of typing errors because of not being used to the keyboard and incorrect use of the automatic spelling and dictionary on the iPad.
I worked on that and learned how to better use the iPad and 2 weeks later we did the same thing again and my notes were ' approved ' by the company secretary as being accurate and complete with an acceptable level of typo's ( Whatever that means )
What I did to improve was I had my daughter read Harry Potter aloud and I typed that on the iPad. ( btw..... I hate Harry Potter -
So it can be done !
Cheers ... McBie