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easy alternative to scanning your recipes would be just to take a picture of them, which is essentially what scanning them is...

the tough part is going to be downloading photos and videos from your cameras, like as was mentioned before it can be done to a degree on the iPad, but 16 or even 64Gb of storage space is not a whole lot when you count your pictures, video, and music files. Some will tell you that is what iCloud is about, but i would prefer to have a copy of all my precious moments in multiple locations, and also have the ability to access them when an internet connection is not available to me.

I see a tablet as a companion to a PC/Mac, and not a full on replacement.

And I would have to disagree with the previous argument that a 13" Macbook Pro is the best "bang for your buck", as it starts at $1200... and for that price, you could get a nice similarly spec-ed windows machine (2.4Ghz i5/4GB Ram/500GB Hard Drive) for around $480 at bestbuy, then get an 16GB wifi iPad and spend less than you would on just a macbook pro 13...

if you are wanting to see the $480 laptop, search for 4854891 at Bestbuy's website. It is an ASUS K53E-BBR15... ASUS has been around for a long time, making machines for all the big name companies... and recently started making their own branded devices not too long ago, but make top notch stuff none the less... might be easier to think of them as the HTC of computer world.