Depending on the specs of your netbook, it is more likely that your netbook will be slightly faster than your iPad. However, Apple tablet is known for its superb performance and gives equally satisfying user experience as any netbook. Second generation iPad comes with a faster A5 chip, which will enhance this experience and also make the processing and thus working on an iPad much faster.
For word processing purpose, iPad has some excellent apps. However, the most popular word processing app is Pages. It is a very good word processing app for iPad as it is simple but at the very same time provides various features like formatting your documents.
You can create your documents using this app and then can mail them to the magazine you write for. You can also export your documents.
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