if i have one iPad and I want all the apps that are there how do I copy that so i can have them on another iPad the same way as i have them on the first iPad?

If you want both iPad to be identical .....

Without connecting your iPad to your Mac, start iTunes. Go to iTunes>Preferences>Devices. Check the box next to "Prevent your iPod etc. from automatically syncing." Click OK.

• Now connect your iPad to your Mac and start iTunes.
• When iTunes starts, right click on your iPad under Devices in the left column. Select Transfer purchases.
• After it finishes transferring all your apps to the Mac, right click on your iPad and select Backup your iPad.
• Sync the iPad and eject it when it is complete.
• Quit iTunes

• Connect the second iPad.
• Launch iTunes
• Right click on the iPad name on the left side and select - Restore from Backup
• Select the backup of the first iPad and let it restore from that backup.
• When it finishes restoring - sync with iTunes to transfer all of the apps and any other content that you want onto that iPad
• Eject the iPad when you are done.

Check the second iPad and if all of the content did not sync as you wanted - or you want to remove some of the content - connect it again and then choose the content that you want - uncheck what you do not want - and click on Apply in the lower right corner of iTunes.

After you sync the first iPad - just make sure that all of the apps that you want to put on the second iPad are checked/selected to sync. Make sure that the Sync apps heading is checked as well.

If I were doing this, I would use the cable - but as long as the iPad is recognized in iTunes - it should not matter if you do the over Wi-Fi or if you use the cable.

I do trust the cable a little more because - if you would for some reason lose the internet connection - the iPad would still sync using the cable. As far as I know - you can sync an iPad without an internet connection if you use the cable.

Follow all of the directions as posted. You will want to turn off auto sync so that you can control everything. You do not want the iPads to sync until you are ready to sync.

When you are all done setting up the second iPad - you can go back into iTunes and turn this off so that your iPads will sync automatically again if that is what you want to do.