If you skipped the PC-free iPad setup on Set Up and Activate Your iPad because you didn’t have a WiFi network around, you can use iTunes instead. The first time you connect your iPad to your computer with the USB cable, iTunes helps you set up and customize the tablet. You can give it a proper name and sync all kinds of content and information from your computer over to it (see Work with iTunes for details).

If you already use iTunes to manage media on an iPhone or iPod, odds are you already have a healthy media library on your computer. And if you had an iPad before, iTunes offers to put the content from your old iPad onto your new one.

Depending on the size of your new iPad’s drive, you may be able to fit all your stuff on it—or not, if you have more than 16, 32, or 64 gigabytes of digital treasures on your computer. If you have less than that and want to take it all with you, just click the Done button in the Setup box. iTunes loads a copy of everything in its library onto your iPad. If you have more media than your iPad has storage, iTunes loads up your ‘Pad until it’s full. If you want to be more selective about what you sync, see Manually Sync to Your iPad.