Would you send a kid to college with an just an iPad?

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The University of Notre Dame's iPad-friendly classroom.
The University of Notre Dame's iPad-friendly classroom.

It’s back-to-school time. And with so many universities handing iPads to students, parents may wonder how many devices they truly need.

 

While the iPad may be great for textbooks — especially with apps like Kno offering 70,000 titles at a discount — but can it be a student’s main device?
Ken Colburn, of datadoctors.com tries to answer the question from a parent’s point of view:

“It’s possible that your child could get by with just an iPad (with a Bluetooth keyboard) but by the time you get everything you need to make the iPad functional, you could easily have purchased a laptop which is always the better collegiate machine.”

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