Photos show up in the photos app on the iPad. iPad screenshots show up in the photos app. I suppose you could do everything on iPad. You could buy music and apps and video over the air and never see a Mac. You wouldn't have a backup. Are backups essential? Sent from my iPad On 2010-07-03, at 9:32 AM, Doug Bale <dougbale@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > So although iPad can download images from e-mails or websites, or as Dave > Knight is saying, can make its own screenshots, they can't be displayed until > the iPad is plugged into a Mac and synced with it in iTunes? Even assuming > the Mac will find the invisible photos the iPad alleges it has downloaded, > and will synch those as well as the ones originating from the Mac itself, > this is bad news for newcomers thinking they can buy an iPad instead of a > Mac. Nowhere in Apple's advertisements for the thing does it say you have to > buy an iPad IN ADDITION TO a Mac. --- Manage your account options at //www.freelists.org/list/muglo