The pictures did not go from the laptop to the ipad.  what is the sequence to try and move the photos from the macbook to the ipad?
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You may want to try syncing only certain events of pictures onto your iPad instead of all the picts. The iPad may be having trouble putting all 30 gigs of pictures on at one time. To select certain events, you’ll connect your iPad to your black macbook then go to the Photos tab as shown here:

Select certain events the choose to sync again in the bottom right hand corner of itunes. It may say “Apply” instead of “sync”.