iWork for iPad

With Apple's iWork for iPad suite of office applications, you can do real work on your new iPad.

With Apple's iWork for iPad suite of office applications, you can do real work on your new iPad. Whether you think that's good news or bad news probably depends on your personality, but it's great to have the choice. The tablet-based version of Apple's suite offers only a basic subset of features and functions compared to the high-powered OS X version of iWork 09 ($79.00 direct, ), and the iPad's cramped on-screen keyboard won't help you write your screenplay in the Pages word processor or crunch corporate-levels financials in the Numbers spreadsheet. But if you're serious about using the iPad for work, pick up the Apple iPad Keyboard Dock ($69.00 direct, ). When you start creating and using documents and especially presentations in the iPad's no-fuss file system, you'll wonder why you ever put up with the complexity and awkwardness that you take for granted on your desktop or laptop PC.