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The essential apps YOU’LL NEED

Source: As long as iOS is reasonably up-to-date, your iPad can run business-standard apps like Excel, as well as advanced creative apps such as LumaFusion.Apple’s Keynote is ideal for creating and delivering presentations, but Microsoft PowerPoint is also available.

With Apple’s Pages, Numbers and Keynote available for free, every iPad has the productivity basics covered. Photos can manage your media, and Safari covers web browsing. Mail should accommodate all your email accounts, GarageBand is on hand for soundtracks, and iBooks displays PDFs.

Unless you’re a die-hard Apple purist who never works with anyone except other die-hard Apple purists, however — and if so, we salute you — you may need a bit more to complete your do-it-all mobile workstation. Although Apple’s apps happily handle Microsoft Office documents, there are limits to the accuracy of their conversions,

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