[Kopite76]

10 year old daughter wants one from santa.

Will I buy the 32gb?

Would 16gb not get filled too quickly?

Can you store stuff on cloud?

Thanks

[grumpyoldbat]

If it's apps and some music, then 16GB should be fine for a child. If you're going to put a load of video (movies, tv) on there and leave it on there, then go for the larger capacity if you can.

[BKM]

Originally Posted by grumpyoldbat

If it's apps and some music, then 16GB should be fine for a child. If you're going to put a load of video (movies, tv) on there and leave it on there, then go for the larger capacity if you can.

Totally agree with this! I have had a 16Gb IPad for almost two years and it has been hard to fill with music, apps and photos. Video is the real space killer!

[Dan Sette]

If you can afford it - go for as much memory as you can.

Certainly I agree with the poster that says 16gb is hard to fill with music and books it isn't impssible.

For a youngster, who will hopefully get some years of life out of it - not so much.

Youngsters will certainly be swapping videos, and music etc and 16gb can get filled quite quickly in that case.

Plus don't forget - 16gb is the total memory. nearly 3gb is taken with the operating system.

For comparrison 16gb on my iPhone is taken up with 1144 songs, 7 videos, 688 photos and 120 apps - some of which do take a lot of space. Coastal navigation charts and TomTom eat memory (about 2gb between them)

[grumpyoldbat]

Originally Posted by Dan Sette

If you can afford it - go for as much memory as you can.

Certainly I agree with the poster that says 16gb is hard to fill with music and books it isn't impssible.

For a youngster, who will hopefully get some years of life out of it - not so much.

Youngsters will certainly be swapping videos, and music etc and 16gb can get filled quite quickly in that case.

Plus don't forget - 16gb is the total memory. nearly 3gb is taken with the operating system.

For comparrison 16gb on my iPhone is taken up with 1144 songs, 7 videos, 688 photos and 120 apps - some of which do take a lot of space. Coastal navigation charts and TomTom eat memory (about 2gb between them)

10 year old probably not going to need Tom Tom or coastal navigation though!

[Kopite76]

thanks very much folks. (The wife) decided to go for the 16GB model (to my surprise) so I'll just explain to her that 1000 photos of random rubbish is not a good idea!

:-)

[declanconnolly12]

32 GB is Best...

[BKM]

Originally Posted by Kopite76

thanks very much folks. (The wife) decided to go for the 16GB model (to my surprise) so I'll just explain to her that 1000 photos of random rubbish is not a good idea!

I have (at least!) several 100 photos on my iPad and they don't take up THAT much space (~2Gb from memory!)
- very occasionally I do adjust things so the older stuff is only held on the PC.