My iPad Enterprise Rollout: 5 Surprises

At any rate, students aren't complaining--yet. "It's a larger problem for general Web use," Rennie says, "but a small problem for us."

4. Consider the Apple vs. Adobe Fight : Part Two, PDFs

Given Apple's dicey relationship with Adobe, Rennie worried that the iPad wouldn't support PDFs. Apple prefers HTML 5 over Flash and ePub over PDF. The iPad doesn't support Flash, so would Apple take a similar stance on PDFs

Educators have created student handouts in PDFs for years, and Florida State College was no different. "We have a big legacy investment in PDFs," Rennie says. If iPads didn't support PDFs, "that would have been a deal killer."

Rennie, though, was pleasantly surprised at how nice the iPad works with PDFs. With the iPad, students can open and read a PDF. Cool apps let them annotate and highlight text, which are then recorded in the table of contents for fast referral.