New iPad for Grandma

Here's the scenario. My Mom is visiting from California and we will be giving her an iPad 2 for Mother's Day. I want to set it up for her here so we can show her how to use it. What would be the best way to go about this? I will create a new iTunes account for her, but when I pull up my iTunes, all my stuff is still in there (library, etc). I'm guessing I will need to create a new user account on my computer to do this. Also, what will happen when she takes it back home and connects it to iTunes on her computer? Will she get a message saying the device was synced on a different computer and wipe out any apps she installed? Just want to head off any confusion before it arises. Thanks Much!

I'm assuming she will be using a desktop to sync with so having her bring her computer to do all of this will be out of the question. Set the iPad to manually manage songs and video after you get it started up. Then once its set up and signed to your iTunes go into the iTunes app and hit your username, set up your mom's iTunes on apple.com or whereever you do an additional sign up. Enter her user name and password into the provided login page. If she has a laptop, ask her to bring it that way you can let her open the iPad and show he how to sync and update the thing. If you can do this you can skip the first step of setting it to manually manage songs and video. Otherwise thats the only way I can think of doing something like this. Good luck, hope your mom enjoys her iPad.

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