My ipad questions....potential purchase

Hi all!
I am considering retiring my ibook g4 in favor of an ipad. I have a new imac as my main computer, and also have a first gen g5 single 1.8 processor.
I only use my ibook for email and internet. I'm thinking an ipad would replace the ibook.
My concern is i see many people are having wifi issues. I won't be using G3 at all, and i do have an airport extreme network setup that works fine.
Will the ipad give me the same wifi performance with internet and email as i get now with my ibook?
Also, how important is the file storage capacity? Do apps take up alot of space? Can you store apps to an sd card or other storage media?
Sorry for all the questions but my wife wants to get me an ipad for Christmas and i want to make sure that it is a practical purchase and fills my needs.
Thanks!
Len

In terms of your mac there are minimum OS requirements - version 10.5.8 or later.
You cannot store apps on any other media - they can only be loaded via iTunes (either via your Mac or directly onto the iPad). In terms of the amount of space that they use, generally not much e.g. the Pages word processing app from Apple is listed as 51.3M on the App Store, and Numbers spreadsheet app (also from Apple) as 69.9M. I've got some which are less than 1 meg. You could have a browse of the Apps on iTunes and see which you might be interested in getting; as far as I am aware they all list their size. You can always remove them from your iPad and leave them on your Mac iTunes library until you need them again.
People have been, and still are, having problems with wi-fi, and I don't know what proportion of the total users (though probably small), but I havn't had a single problem with my iPad at all, either before or after upgrading to 4.2. I also havn't noticed it being slower than my laptop.
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