iPad (2 Viewers)

[Polish Hammer]

Anybody have any thoughts on this?

 

[Aaron Rudnicki]

My ipdad left Tennessee last night and arrived in Indianapolis this morning.

 

[Mixlflick1]

Any of you use a stylus with your iPad for writing/note taking?

I tried for a week, but ended up giving the stylus back. Felt too awkward, plus the page zooming and panning you had to do became annoying. This was a year ago though, there might be something better now.

I've read that some note-taking apps (writing, not typing) are better than others. Anyone have a recommendation?

I use a stylus from Boxwave. $15.00. The app I use is UPAD. There is a UPAD Lite that you can try for free. I don't use pen and paper any more. I use this for all my note taking. It also allows you to write on pdfs if you like taking notes on other documents (you can open pdfs from dropbox). It has two features that I like that make it better than average. First, it has a wrist guard (effectively creates a dead zone on the screen) so there is not a problem with multi-touch. You do have to turn off the four/five finger swipe feature in the ipad settings. It also has a zoom box so you can insert writing in smaller spaces. It has the standard things to change size/color of writing. It also allows typing. I wish it had an audio recording for notes, but maybe in the future.Does it write as well as a good pen and paper? No. But I can read my notes and save them directly to dropbox.

 

[Leeroy Jenkins]

Explain how this makes sense:

My iPad has been sitting in Middleton, PA for DAYS. Waiting for future delivery.

At 7:30pm yesterday it was in Harrisburg, PA apparently.

NOW it is in Indianapolis.

I am in Pittsburgh. It flew over or drove past me yesterday. WHY?

 

[CrossEyed]

Any of you use a stylus with your iPad for writing/note taking?

I tried for a week, but ended up giving the stylus back. Felt too awkward, plus the page zooming and panning you had to do became annoying. This was a year ago though, there might be something better now.

I've read that some note-taking apps (writing, not typing) are better than others. Anyone have a recommendation?

I use a stylus from Boxwave. $15.00. The app I use is UPAD. There is a UPAD Lite that you can try for free. I don't use pen and paper any more. I use this for all my note taking. It also allows you to write on pdfs if you like taking notes on other documents (you can open pdfs from dropbox). It has two features that I like that make it better than average. First, it has a wrist guard (effectively creates a dead zone on the screen) so there is not a problem with multi-touch. You do have to turn off the four/five finger swipe feature in the ipad settings. It also has a zoom box so you can insert writing in smaller spaces. It has the standard things to change size/color of writing. It also allows typing. I wish it had an audio recording for notes, but maybe in the future.Does it write as well as a good pen and paper? No. But I can read my notes and save them directly to dropbox.

Thanks.UPad was one that looked like it got good reviews. Notes Plus was another one. It does have audio recording. How many did you try before you settled on UPad?

 

[belljr]

So I'm a married guy in his mid-thirties with two kids about to turn 4 and 6. In my house we have:1. Home PC in the office.2. 17" laptop in kitchen the wife uses most of the day and occasionally at night. It's pretty well outfitted (a "gaming" laptop from Gateway) but heavy with not great battery life.3. Asus Netbook I use during business travel.3. Wife and I each have an iPod Nano4. Wife likely to be getting an iPhone soon, I may also get one from work.What would be the reason(s) to get an iPad? Or to not get one? I feel like having one would be nice because I'm sure there are things we could use it for to help educate the kids, but I don't know what that is. When we take family trips it would obviously be good to keep kids occupied. It would potentially be easier to surf the net at home on the sofa while watching TV (certainly lighter than the laptop). What else does this give me that I'm not thinking about?My wife takes lots of pictures with the kids. Does the iPad allow for some functionality with those that we wouldn't get with a regular computer? Is an iPad able to read files from my backup HDD that I have connected to the office PC (where we store all the family photos)? What are some limitations I'm not thinking of?

Take this for what it's worth. I don't have an IPAD. My wife has ipod, my kid has a touch and we both have android phones. I built my new/gaming pc around christmas, we have one family laptop and my son has an ASUS I got him for CHristmas. If I ever get a tablet it would most likely be an ipad. I have debated every ipad that comes out whether it's worth it. My wife and kid think it's cool but really don't see the need. I tend to agree.Neither has a problem using the laptop when they want to (he is 18). Most of the time if I'm doing generally surfing I'll just do it on my phone. ANd if there really is a need to do something I just hop on my PC. I do get tons of use out of my phone (4.3 screen is obviously not as good as a 10)We see it a a really cool product but not something we would get a ton of use out of. Sure it would be nice to have etc but to drop 600-700 just does not out weight the "reward" in our minds.My 6 year old loves playing on my phone so I could see her really liking it.I'm not knocking the product, I have used them and tried them, my co worker has a 1 2 and now a new one. I just don't see the "need" for me. Plus we don't travel a ton and when we do we just take the laptop anyway...eta: I'm married, 40 (18 and 6 year old kids) and we don't travel a lot (that requires flying)I would definitely use it and make use of it, I think it's the cost vs use/need that holds us back

 

[Mixlflick1]

Any of you use a stylus with your iPad for writing/note taking?

I tried for a week, but ended up giving the stylus back. Felt too awkward, plus the page zooming and panning you had to do became annoying. This was a year ago though, there might be something better now.

I've read that some note-taking apps (writing, not typing) are better than others. Anyone have a recommendation?

I use a stylus from Boxwave. $15.00. The app I use is UPAD. There is a UPAD Lite that you can try for free. I don't use pen and paper any more. I use this for all my note taking. It also allows you to write on pdfs if you like taking notes on other documents (you can open pdfs from dropbox). It has two features that I like that make it better than average. First, it has a wrist guard (effectively creates a dead zone on the screen) so there is not a problem with multi-touch. You do have to turn off the four/five finger swipe feature in the ipad settings. It also has a zoom box so you can insert writing in smaller spaces. It has the standard things to change size/color of writing. It also allows typing. I wish it had an audio recording for notes, but maybe in the future.Does it write as well as a good pen and paper? No. But I can read my notes and save them directly to dropbox.

Thanks.UPad was one that looked like it got good reviews. Notes Plus was another one. It does have audio recording. How many did you try before you settled on UPad?

I tried 3 or 4. I really liked the wrist guard rather then the software trying to detect if my wrist was resting on the screen. I have heard good things about Penultimate. There is another called Notability, which I haven't tried, that syncs audio recording with the notes you take. For $.99, it's likely worth a try. Since I'm a year in and using UPAD, there's little reason for me to switch.

 

[Mario Kart]

Anyone use a case that has a keyboard in it or carry a keyboard with them?

I figure if I buy one this thing will be easier to carry around than a laptop, no?

 

[Leeroy Jenkins]

I'm going to need advice on how to rip blurays to my iPad while using a computer to do the ripping that is not syncing with my ipad.

Also, I need to learn Italian. Quickly. Any good iPad apps for that?

 

[belljr]

I'm going to need advice on how to rip blurays to my iPad while using a computer to do the ripping that is not syncing with my ipad.Also, I need to learn Italian. Quickly. Any good iPad apps for that?

There are many tools. Handbrake is free - I use any video creator to convert.You just rip and convert into IPAD format, then drag into your itunes folder.

 

[CrossEyed]

OK, UPS site still shows it sitting in Louisville.

 

[Senor Schmutzig]

OK, UPS site still shows it sitting in Louisville.

Mine's in Memphis at least....hopefully about ready to board the plane to Miami.Just got an e-mail from Apple indicating that there is a delay in shipping. Luckily it's just for the blue leather case I ordered. It's in Anchorage and was supposed to be delivered tomorrow. Doesn't matter to me if that's delayed a day or two. Just glad it wasn't the iPad.

 

[CrossEyed]

OK, UPS site still shows it sitting in Louisville.

Mine's in Memphis at least....hopefully about ready to board the plane to Miami.Just got an e-mail from Apple indicating that there is a delay in shipping. Luckily it's just for the blue leather case I ordered. It's in Anchorage and was supposed to be delivered tomorrow. Doesn't matter to me if that's delayed a day or two. Just glad it wasn't the iPad.

I'm actually starting to wonder if it's going to get here tomorrow. It usually has two more stops between Louisville and Pittsburgh when it comes via truck. Unless they're just flying into Pittsburgh, but that's not the normal UPS routine.

 

[tommyGunZ]

Mar 15, 2012 11:20 AMLeft FedEx origin facilityMIRA LOMA, CA

 

[cstu]

No legitimate faults on the new Ipad.

High resolution files take up more memory, takes longer to charge, runs hotter, it's thicker and heavier, but don't worry about it.

 

[Leeroy Jenkins]

OK, UPS site still shows it sitting in Louisville.

Mine's in Memphis at least....hopefully about ready to board the plane to Miami.Just got an e-mail from Apple indicating that there is a delay in shipping. Luckily it's just for the blue leather case I ordered. It's in Anchorage and was supposed to be delivered tomorrow. Doesn't matter to me if that's delayed a day or two. Just glad it wasn't the iPad.

I'm actually starting to wonder if it's going to get here tomorrow. It usually has two more stops between Louisville and Pittsburgh when it comes via truck. Unless they're just flying into Pittsburgh, but that's not the normal UPS routine.

It is fedex.I'm trying to figure out how mine was in PA and now its in IN.

 

[CrossEyed]

No legitimate faults on the new Ipad.

High resolution files take up more memory, takes longer to charge, runs hotter, it's thicker and heavier, but don't worry about it.

Did Steve Jobs kill your dog?

 

[SkyRattlers]

No legitimate faults on the new Ipad.

High resolution files take up more memory, takes longer to charge, runs hotter, it's thicker and heavier, but don't worry about it.

These two are hilarious and really bring into question the author's tech savvy. I wonder if they ever realized that their 10 megapixel camera was making bigger files than their 5 megapixel model? Or that their Ford F150 took longer to fill up the gas tank than their Focus?:rofl:

 

[Senor Schmutzig]

No legitimate faults on the new Ipad.

High resolution files take up more memory, takes longer to charge, runs hotter, it's thicker and heavier, but don't worry about it.

I haven't had an iPad before so I don't have any basis of comparison. None of this stuff really matters because iPad > No iPad.

 

[Leeroy Jenkins]

No legitimate faults on the new Ipad.

High resolution files take up more memory, takes longer to charge, runs hotter, it's thicker and heavier, but don't worry about it.

I haven't had an iPad before so I don't have any basis of comparison. None of this stuff really matters because iPad > No iPad.

That is my stance as well. I was close to iPad2, but was waiting for the HD screen.

 

[Mario Kart]

Anyone use a case that has a keyboard in it or carry a keyboard with them?I figure if I buy one this thing will be easier to carry around than a laptop, no?

Quit talking about shipments and talking about common sense stuff like larger files. Talk about keyboards.

 

[belljr]

No legitimate faults on the new Ipad.

High resolution files take up more memory, takes longer to charge, runs hotter, it's thicker and heavier, but don't worry about it.

These two are hilarious and really bring into question the author's tech savvy. I wonder if they ever realized that their 10 megapixel camera was making bigger files than their 5 megapixel model? Or that their Ford F150 took longer to fill up the gas tank than their Focus?:rofl:

The only reason this is somewhat of a concern is you are forced to use the new app. They kept the storage capacity the same, so in essence you are losing space because of the new display. Now if you can choose which app you want to install than it's really no complaint at all.

 

[cstu]

Anyone use a case that has a keyboard in it or carry a keyboard with them?

I figure if I buy one this thing will be easier to carry around than a laptop, no?

Quit talking about shipments and talking about common sense stuff like larger files. Talk about keyboards.

Just get a Prime.

 

[CrossEyed]

No legitimate faults on the new Ipad.

High resolution files take up more memory, takes longer to charge, runs hotter, it's thicker and heavier, but don't worry about it.

I haven't had an iPad before so I don't have any basis of comparison. None of this stuff really matters because iPad > No iPad.

That is my stance as well. I was close to iPad2, but was waiting for the HD screen.

Same here. I certainly wouldn't have upgraded from an iPad 2, but it just seemed like the right time for a tablet for me. The "hotter", "thicker", and "heavier" criticisms just show that cstu is either in major fishing mode or has some serious Apple issues.

 

[belljr]

No legitimate faults on the new Ipad.

High resolution files take up more memory, takes longer to charge, runs hotter, it's thicker and heavier, but don't worry about it.

I haven't had an iPad before so I don't have any basis of comparison. None of this stuff really matters because iPad > No iPad.

That is my stance as well. I was close to iPad2, but was waiting for the HD screen.

Same here. I certainly wouldn't have upgraded from an iPad 2, but it just seemed like the right time for a tablet for me. The "hotter", "thicker", and "heavier" criticisms just show that cstu is either in major fishing mode or has some serious Apple issues.

Same boat but still holding out for now

 

[Sinn Fein]

Does anyone know the limit of devices tied to a single itunes account?

 

[belljr]

Does anyone know the limit of devices tied to a single itunes account?

I think it's 10 and AppleTV does not count towards the limit. You have to double check with apple site

 

[CrossEyed]

Does anyone know the limit of devices tied to a single itunes account?

5 computers, unlimited iOS devices.

 

[Sinn Fein]

Does anyone know the limit of devices tied to a single itunes account?

5 computers, unlimited iOS devices.

Thx! I was worried that it was 5 iOS devices, which seem to be adding up quickly in our house.

 

[Mario Kart]

Anyone use a case that has a keyboard in it or carry a keyboard with them?

I figure if I buy one this thing will be easier to carry around than a laptop, no?

Quit talking about shipments and talking about common sense stuff like larger files. Talk about keyboards.

Just get a Prime.

I have an iPod, iPhone, MBP. Comparability reasons steer me towards an iPad. The only thing I regret not having is stock.

 

[CrossEyed]

Does anyone know the limit of devices tied to a single itunes account?

5 computers, unlimited iOS devices.

Thx! I was worried that it was 5 iOS devices, which seem to be adding up quickly in our house.

Just double checked and I was wrong. It is a total of 10 devices (computers and iOS devices combined).

 

[cstu]

Anyone use a case that has a keyboard in it or carry a keyboard with them?

I figure if I buy one this thing will be easier to carry around than a laptop, no?

Quit talking about shipments and talking about common sense stuff like larger files. Talk about keyboards.

Just get a Prime.

I have an iPod, iPhone, MBP. Comparability reasons steer me towards an iPad. The only thing I regret not having is stock.

This is truly the genius behind what Apple does (I know you meant compatibility).

 

[Leeroy Jenkins]

Funny or Die review some NSFW words

 

[One]

Anyone use a case that has a keyboard in it or carry a keyboard with them?

I figure if I buy one this thing will be easier to carry around than a laptop, no?

Quit talking about shipments and talking about common sense stuff like larger files. Talk about keyboards.

Just get a Prime.

You ought to start an Asus Prime thread. Not sure too many in here care about anything produced by Asus.

 

[Mario Kart]

Anyone use a case that has a keyboard in it or carry a keyboard with them?

I figure if I buy one this thing will be easier to carry around than a laptop, no?

Quit talking about shipments and talking about common sense stuff like larger files. Talk about keyboards.

Just get a Prime.

I have an iPod, iPhone, MBP. Comparability reasons steer me towards an iPad. The only thing I regret not having is stock.

This is truly the genius behind what Apple does (I know you meant compatibility).

it's really not an Apple genius thing. If things work better they will be bought. Windows things just do not work well with each other. What else can be said?

 

[belljr]

Anyone use a case that has a keyboard in it or carry a keyboard with them?

I figure if I buy one this thing will be easier to carry around than a laptop, no?

Quit talking about shipments and talking about common sense stuff like larger files. Talk about keyboards.

Just get a Prime.

You ought to start an Asus Prime thread. Not sure too many in here care about anything produced by Asus.

whoa whoa whoa they make quality laptops

 

[joffer]

At destination sort facility in Austin

 

[cstu]

Anyone use a case that has a keyboard in it or carry a keyboard with them?

I figure if I buy one this thing will be easier to carry around than a laptop, no?

Quit talking about shipments and talking about common sense stuff like larger files. Talk about keyboards.

Just get a Prime.

You ought to start an Asus Prime thread. Not sure too many in here care about anything produced by Asus.

I have! No one is interested.

 

[One]

Anyone use a case that has a keyboard in it or carry a keyboard with them?

I figure if I buy one this thing will be easier to carry around than a laptop, no?

Quit talking about shipments and talking about common sense stuff like larger files. Talk about keyboards.

Just get a Prime.

You ought to start an Asus Prime thread. Not sure too many in here care about anything produced by Asus.

I have! No one is interested.

Invite me, I'd love to catch up.

 

[Mario Kart]

Been wondering. Do I want an iPad 2 or for what I want should I buy an 11" Air? Mulling this one over.

~$350 difference or so.

 

[Ned]

Been wondering. Do I want an iPad 2 or for what I want should I buy an 11" Air? Mulling this one over.~$350 difference or so.

I've been tempted a number of times to switch from my ipad2 to an air. It's not worth it for me with how I'm using it. The only good reason for switching is the typing.

 

[HellToupee]

http://daringfireball.net/2012/03/ipad_3

Pixels pixels pixels. Battery battery battery. Speed speed speed.

That’s the new iPad, a.k.a. (for comparison’s sake) the iPad 3. The retina display, significantly faster graphics, and the potential for startlingly fast cellular networking — all with the same renowned battery life (and standby time) as the original iPad and iPad 2.

Now, there are a few other differences. RAM has been doubled once again, from 512 MB to 1 GB. But that’s just an implementation detail — the extra RAM partly serves to support the double resolution retina display. Doubling the resolution means four times the total number of pixels, and that consumes more RAM. Whatever extra RAM is available for use by apps simply makes things feel faster — more tabs open in Safari, more apps open in the background. Also, the camera has gotten a significant upgrade — but while the new camera is decidedly better than the one in the iPad 2 (and infinitely better than the no-camera in the original iPad), I really doubt there exist more than a handful of people in the world who would upgrade from the iPad 2 to the iPad 3 for the camera alone.1

PIXELS

You don’t need to be an expert or pundit to understand what Apple has done with the iPad over the past two years. It is very simple, and plainly obvious to anyone with good eyesight looking at them side-by-side. The concept is completely unchanged: a 9.7-inch touchscreen display surrounded by a bezel large enough for you to hold the device without your thumbs touching or obscuring anything, an aluminum back, a few simple hardware buttons. Last year Apple clarified the hardware: more curves, a minimization of visible aluminum around the front face, and a significant reduction in overall thickness. They made the hardware more graceful.

This year, they’ve clarified the display. We have been here before — in June 2010, with the iPhone 4, about which I wrote:

Apple seems very confident about the precise size and dimensions of the iPhone display: 3.5 inches, with a 3:2 aspect ratio. Not 3 inches. Not 4 inches. In fact, Apple seems very confident regarding everything it decided for the original 2007 iPhone. There are no new buttons, or even moved buttons. The Retina Display is emblematic of the iPhone 4 as a whole, both hardware and software: the same fundamental idea as the original iPhone, but clarified. It hasn’t really changed so much as improved — like the same picture in increasingly sharper focus.

If you’re familiar with the experience of switching from the old iPhone display to the 4/4S retina display, the experience of switching to the new iPad display will prove familiar. It is astonishingly good. Again, quoting from my 2010 review of the iPhone 4:

The Retina Display’s overall effect is like that of high-end glossy magazine print — except that it updates live. It’s living breathing print. I don’t recall ever having seen motion graphics of this resolution, anywhere. […] The iPhone 4 feels like a major step toward an idealized iPhone form factor.

Ditto for the iPad 3. The difference is that at 9.7 inches, the display actually is about the size of a glossy magazine. How many pixels is 2048 × 1536? Here’s a full-size screenshot of the iPad 3 lock screen.

To quote myself again, here’s a bit from my April 2010 review of the original iPad:

Anyone who thinks Apple only makes high-priced products has completely lost sense of reality. “Affordable luxury” is the sweet spot for mass market success today, and Apple keeps shooting bulls eyes. In fact, the only thing that makes my heart ache regarding the iPad is when I start imagining a hypothetical Pro model — imagine what Apple could put in an iPad that cost as much as a MacBook Pro. (My dream iPad Pro: double the display’s pixel resolution and include a gigabyte or two of RAM.)

23 months later, I have in my hands today exactly what my heart ached for then. Except instead of paying MacBook Pro prices for it, I simply had to wait two years to buy it at the same prices as the original iPad. My hypothetical dream iPad from 2010 is today the just-plain real-life iPad.

Reading on the big retina display is pure joy. Going back to the iPad 2 after reading for a few hours on the iPad 3 is jarring. With bigger pixels, anti-aliased text looks blurry; with smaller pixels, anti-aliased text looks good; but with really small pixels like these, anti-aliased text looks impossibly good — and what you thought looked pretty good before (like text rendered on older iPads) now looks blurry.2

Even iPhone apps look better — retina-display iPhone apps run at 2× size on the iPad 3 take advantage of their higher-resolution UI elements and text rendering. (Non-retina iPhone apps look like retro 8-bit video games at 2× on the iPad 3, but thankfully there aren’t many of those left.)

It’s not just sharp; the display also shows great bright colors without any saturation-gimmickry like you get with OLED displays. Photographs look amazingly good, but also amazingly true-to-life. It’s no coincidence that iPhoto was chosen as the app to demo on stage and debut alongside the device. Photos don’t just look sharp when zoomed out — they look sharp when zoomed in. The iPhone 4/4S can show print-quality photos at small sizes, but the new iPad can show print quality photos at hang-it-on-the-wall sizes.

All of Apple’s software has been updated to retina-caliber graphics. (If they missed anything, I didn’t spot it.) Most third-party apps, of course, have not yet been updated. Just like with the iPhone 4, these up-scaled graphics are passable, but annoying. They stick out like sore thumbs after using true retina-display-optimized apps. Websites, too — most graphics and images on the web are behind the curve, as of today. Text looks great in Safari, but non-retina images look slightly blurry. The iPad display is so good that it shows, like no device before it, just how crummy most images on the web are.

BATTERY LIFE AND SPEED

My review unit from Apple is an AT&T 4G model with 64 GB of storage. In downtown San Francisco I saw remarkable performance on LTE — easily as fast, perceptually, as a rock-solid Wi-Fi connection. Even better, after dicking around on the web and email for close to two hours — all of it using LTE — battery life was still showing over 80 percent capacity. I’ll leave comprehensive battery life testing to other reviewers, but anecdotally, the iPad 3’s battery life seems indistinguishable from that of the iPad 2, even when using LTE. This alone strikes me as a remarkable engineering accomplishment.

The iPad has changed my expectations regarding mobile computing. I use two Macs — one that remains at my office desk, and an 11-inch MacBook Air which I use anywhere and everywhere else. My flight to San Francisco prior to the iPad event lasted a little over 5.5 hours, and in-flight Wi-Fi was available. I started with my Air, which lasted about two hours, most of it spent browsing the web and posting to DF. Then I switched to the iPad, and spent the next 2.5 hours using it for the same tasks. The Air was completely depleted after two hours; the iPad still had more than 60 percent battery available after 2.5 hours of use. To be fair to the Air, it wasn’t quite fully charged to start the flight — I think it started around 85 percent or so. But the reason it wasn’t fully charged to start the flight is that the iPad has so thoroughly spoiled me regarding how much battery life a device should lose while sitting idle, waiting to be used. I’d neither used nor charged the Air for a few days prior to leaving for the airport.

That was the iPad 2, not the new one I’m reviewing here, but I bring this up because what matters most is not how the new iPad 3 differs from the iPad 2 and 1, but rather how “The iPad” as a concept differs from what came before it. The iPads 3, 2, and 1 are simply three iterative and successively improved passes at that same concept, and a big part of that concept is that battery life — even while using wireless networking — should be far longer than what we expect even from laptops like the MacBook Air, which is widely lauded for excellent battery life.

What is changed — and what is unchanged — in this newest iteration of the iPad reveals Apple’s priorities. Most important: how things look on screen, how they feel, how smoothly they animate. Not important: a faster CPU. Important: faster graphics. (Those last two priorities emphasize the hole that Intel has dug itself. Their expertise — CPUs — is no longer the most important processing bottleneck for personal computing. Graphics are.)

Somewhat important: pricing. Pricing remains unchanged from last year at each existing tier, but Apple added a new tier at the bottom, the 16 GB iPad 2, at a $100 reduction ($399 Wi-Fi-only, $529 for 3G). Not important: increased storage capacities. (I’ll bet next year’s iPads go from 16/32/64 to 32/64/128.)

Which brings us to an immovable object meeting an irresistible force. Apple doesn’t make new devices which get worse battery life than the version they’re replacing, but they also don’t make new devices that are thicker and heavier. LTE networking — and, I strongly suspect, the retina display3 — consume more power than do the 3G networking and non-retina display of the iPad 2. A three-way tug-of-war: 4G/LTE networking, battery life, thinness/weight. Something had to give. Thinness and weight lost: the iPad 3 gets 4G/LTE, battery life remains unchanged, and to achieve both of these Apple included a physically bigger battery, which in turn results in a new iPad that is slightly thicker (0.6 mm) and heavier (roughly 0.1 pound/50 grams, depending on the model).

50 grams and six-tenths of a millimeter are minor compromises, but compromises they are, and they betray Apple’s priorities: better to make the iPad slightly thicker and heavier than have battery life suffer slightly. And keep in mind that the new iPad 3 remains far thinner and lighter than the original iPad.

CONCLUSION

The retina display is amazing, everything in the UI feels faster, and the price points remain the same. What’s not to love? It’s that simple.

 

[CrossEyed]

You might regret only going with a 16GB version:

On the iPad I’m testing out, I have three pages of apps, a few hundred photos, one HD movie, and one music album. It’s really not that much stuff, but it takes up over 20 GB of storage. The apps alone are over 10 GB of that.

 

[Sinn Fein]

have mine in-hand 32g wifi+4g

 

[belljr]

You might regret only going with a 16GB version:

On the iPad I’m testing out, I have three pages of apps, a few hundred photos, one HD movie, and one music album. It’s really not that much stuff, but it takes up over 20 GB of storage. The apps alone are over 10 GB of that.

From everything I have read that seems to be the only "legitimate" issue. Keeping the memory the same, not expandable but the upgrade is causing content to be much bigger than expected.A small gripe for sure.I so want to pull the trigger on one (well at least I have to wait) a month now

 

[SkyRattlers]

Mine is on the truck for delivery. Too bad I'm at work and it is going to require a signature....likely going to have to wait until Monday to pick it up at the depot.

 

[Senor Schmutzig]

On FedEx vehicle for delivery

Estimated delivery Mar 16, 2012 by 10:30 AM

Wife is waiting at home to sign for it.

 

[SkyRattlers]

On FedEx vehicle for delivery

Estimated delivery Mar 16, 2012 by 10:30 AM

Wife is waiting at home to sign for it.

Wow, you get an estimated time of delivery. If I had that I'd skip out of work and go home for an hour to receive it. Crappy Canadian UPS shipping

 

[[icon]]

Anyone use a case that has a keyboard in it or carry a keyboard with them?

I figure if I buy one this thing will be easier to carry around than a laptop, no?

Quit talking about shipments and talking about common sense stuff like larger files. Talk about keyboards.

Just get a Prime.

Yeah but then you're stuck with android. :X

 

[Leeroy Jenkins]

Mine is on the truck for delivery. Too bad I'm at work and it is going to require a signature....likely going to have to wait until Monday to pick it up at the depot.

This is why I use my office for my shipping address.