At 8 am Sunday morning, Howard and I went to Best Buy to get a wireless router. I had spent a couple of hours yesterday researching what we needed.

We set it up, that took till about 10, then he went to the airport and I tried to transfer photos to start a vacation slideshow.

Itunes, which worked perfectly yesterday, required and update, then crashed repeatedly. I rebooted, restarted itunes, and it ATE the keynote application I paid for and downloaded yesterday.

Enraged and frustrated, I drove back to the Apple store and found the guy who downloaded it with me. He got it reinstalled but could not help me with crashing iTunes or failed photo transfer. He gave me the phone number for Apple care.

I had the guy on the line for 90 minutes. He gave up, too, after I uninstalled and re-installed iTunes and 5 other Apple programs. But I didn’t give up. Just a few more hours of work and I finally got 17 photos transferred. The problem was that the transfer file size I was attempting was too large. They never even asked the question.

Neither of the Apple guys have an iPad. They are both waiting for the new one.

This model came out last April. My prediction is that the new one will come out a year later, in time for graduation gifts. Or maybe even the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas January 6, just a few weeks away..

Howard was stunned at the beauty of the slideshow. I am glad to be able to write an Email even though I turned off my big computer at 6 pm, exhausted.

I do love it. I see now that it is not just the elegant hardware, it is also the apps. The Android apps do not really compare. Thanks to my brothers and sisters, nephew and niece for making this possible.