IPad or Mack Book Air?

I'm in a dilemma right now. My father just took my old HP laptop for his job and now I'm left with a choice of getting either and iPad or MBA.
I was origionally going with the air since it would be for taking notes or doing quick write ups and going to class. The big jobs I do on my desktop anyway.
Then I was looking at the iPad, and it costs half of what the air cost, but I was wondering how it is for note taking? For school work? Can I open word files in iWork and vice versa? Can I use a wireless HDD like the Kingston WiDrive to store iWork files and open them on a larger computer on a program like word?
Or am I just better off getting the air?

I have a Macbook Pro and an HP TouchPad.
The TouchPad is lightweight and had a long battery life. But the touch-keyboard is not to my liking. It is designated as a testbed for when I learn Android app programming.
The MBA is a real computer (ds store will argue with me on that point), with a real keyboard. And it has an operating system that can also run the full-professional desktop (floortop, I would say, based on its size) Mac Pro. Yes, MS Word/Excel run, as well as MBA being able to run Windows in Parallels or VMFusion or VirtualBox.
But what can you afford? Do not spend your last penny just to please us.

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I'm going to be getting an iPad soon, which I will have in addition to my MBA. Why do I want an iPad when I've got an MBA? Because I love to read and an iPad is better for reading books and magazines. I'm sure I'll also find a lot of other apps doing things that I couldn't do on an MBA (the Air does not, after all, have a touch screen and a touchpad is not at all the same). My sister-in-law uses her iPad to fingerpaint. And the iPad is way more useful on a car ride for watching movies, listening to music, playing games, checking maps. It is very useful to not have to flip open a lid and balance two halves of a device on one's knee rather than one.
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Nobody can tell you which one is best for you, it's a personal preference. However, here are a few factors you might want to take into consideration:
1-They're two different devices that serve different purposes. The way you take notes in an iPad is different than the way you would on a MBA. On the iPad, with apps like Evernote and Notability you can take more complete notes than with a MBA. You have the option to have audio notes, write with a Stylus, make diagrams by hand to explain/relate concepts easily. With the external keyboard (for that I'd recommend using the Apple Wireless Keyboard with the InCase Origami Workstation) you could type just as fast as you would on a MBA and format the text just like you would on the MBA. However, for bigger (possibly partner) papers, the MBA would help you. You could start the paper on the iPad without any issues (using Pages or even Evernote) but you'd need a laptop/computer to finalize the project.
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