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My wife and I, being retired, travel quite a bit around the US. I generally try to keep in touch when traveling by taking my MacBook Pro with us so I can check on my email, forum posts, the news and so on. However my wife wants to give the MBP to her son (along with our current old iPad) and so I am looking for a replacement tool to use when traveling. My first thought was a chrome book as they are generally light and suitable for light duty on a trip but my wife has suggested the new iPad instead.
My problem with using the iPad as a traveling device is that I do not think that it is capable of being used to download information that could then be easily moved to my desktop as I can with the MBP. The sales people at Apple were quick to tell me that it was suitable for downloading and transferring information, but were unable to give me any specifics on how to do that. I am not sure the folks at Apple Care can help me since I have not bought a new iPad (and so don't have one under Apple Care) and my online research has not been particularly productive. It did point me to an app named Document 5 which can be used to download certain types of files to either iCloud or dropbox but it does not seem to work with binaries. For example I could not download a photo editor binary using Document 5 as the app just would not bring up the appropriate dialog box for a binary. I know, of course, that the Mac binary would not work on the iPad but I only wanted to be able to download files like that so that I could then transfer them to my Mac when I returned home.
I have found that people on this forum seem to have a deep knowledge of how Apple products work and I have gotten all of my earlier questions answered. Given that I thought I should post this here and hope that someone can share information on how to download any kind of file either to an iPad directly or to a cloud service such as dropbox. I do not have iCloud currently turned on but would turn that on as well if it would help. If there is no way to do that I would probably be better off getting either something like a chrome book or taking my wife's Windows computer.
Thank you in advance.
My problem with using the iPad as a traveling device is that I do not think that it is capable of being used to download information that could then be easily moved to my desktop as I can with the MBP. The sales people at Apple were quick to tell me that it was suitable for downloading and transferring information, but were unable to give me any specifics on how to do that. I am not sure the folks at Apple Care can help me since I have not bought a new iPad (and so don't have one under Apple Care) and my online research has not been particularly productive. It did point me to an app named Document 5 which can be used to download certain types of files to either iCloud or dropbox but it does not seem to work with binaries. For example I could not download a photo editor binary using Document 5 as the app just would not bring up the appropriate dialog box for a binary. I know, of course, that the Mac binary would not work on the iPad but I only wanted to be able to download files like that so that I could then transfer them to my Mac when I returned home.
I have found that people on this forum seem to have a deep knowledge of how Apple products work and I have gotten all of my earlier questions answered. Given that I thought I should post this here and hope that someone can share information on how to download any kind of file either to an iPad directly or to a cloud service such as dropbox. I do not have iCloud currently turned on but would turn that on as well if it would help. If there is no way to do that I would probably be better off getting either something like a chrome book or taking my wife's Windows computer.
Thank you in advance.