Yes, I admit it… I was one of those people that said “What do I need a giant iPad touch for?”, when I first learned about the iPad. And for weeks following, I kept reading about how people were amazed at this revolutionary “magical” device. I kept seeing apps appear for the app store that I already had on my iPhone, and thought “Why do I need a bigger version of that app?”

And then a few things caught my attention…

Sidebar: This is not a review of everything that the iPad is (there’s plenty of reviews on the web if you search for them) but this article is mainly “my reasons” for getting an iPad. BTW, I bought the iPad 64GB 3G model

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We have been doing more and more trade shows/presentations and the likes these days and in many cases we have to either cart around our own fairly large speaker configurations or arrange to have some speakers provided for us. When a set of speakers is provided for you, you just don’t always know how they are going to perform? In some cases the speakers were overkill and in a booth situation we don’t want the attention on the speakers we want the attention on our product. Even too much bass is distracting as all we really need is for the message to cut through and if there’s lots of bass then often things can get a bit muddy!

Our requirements where a set of compact stereo speakers that had enough volume to cut through a noisy environment and a sound quality that would produce accurate sounding voice. We wanted the fewest possible cables so as not clutter up our table.

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Paul and I recently made a trip out to Ohio which is a bit of trek for us as we traveled from Canada across the boarder to Seattle and then started our air portion of the trip which took us from Seattle to Chicago and then to Ohio. All in all this took us the entire day to accomplish much of which was in the air or sitting around waiting to get into the air.

That said we were fairly iPhone dependent to keep us connected and entertained along the way. The iPhone battery is great for regular day to day activities, especially when you have a home charger or car charger handy but we soon realized this would not be the case in this situation.

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I guess what happens in Vegas doesn’t always stay in Vegas… at least when you have an iPhone 3GS with built in video camera and ReelDirector onboard iPhone video editing software. I plan on doing a full review of the ReelDirector video editing iPhone App in a few days but for now I will at least share our latest MVT Vegas Trip all shot and edited on my iPhone 3GS. (Update – here is the full review)

If you are wondering what we were doing in Vegas, we went down for an Apple Specialist trade show. Many of the Apple Specialist locations cary our Training CD’s and so we went down to meet the very nice folks who distribute our products. We were blown away at the positive feedback we received during the event and hope this opportunity allows even more of the Apple Specialists to cary our products in the future.

I had to convert the original video to playback for web, for the most part it is a good representation of the actual original quality.

Here is a 13 minute video summary of our MVT 2009 Vegas trip…

Click to watch MVT Vegas 2009

(Posted by Mike)

We will be attending the Apple Specialist Retreat in Las Vegas on October 19-22nd, 2009. This event is closed to the public, however it will be a first for MVT exhibiting at the trade-fair. We’re very excited to be invited to this event, and are looking forward to meeting with the 60+ Apple Resellers attending.

Currently, our courses are distributed in over 200 Apple Specialists throughout North America. To find an Apple Specialist that carries MVT in your area, click here.

(Posted by Paul)