...and out there ya did, Mikey. My goodness! I so respect always, what you have to say. I am shocked.
So are you going to keep your iPad and just sell the 2? Can you tell me more on why you were so bummed?
This is def food for thought ~ for me, anyways ~ coming from you.
Well Marie, I am not sure what caused me to turn around on the iPad 2. It's definitely a fine device... no mistake on that.
It's just I didn't actually find it was much different when using it compared to my iPad 1. Since I have both right now I can see that: for instance if heading out to a friends house it wouldn't really matter to me which iPad I grabbed--unless I specifically wanted to demo the iPad 2 of course.
Guess it depends on how I, and you, use the iPad. In my case that is mainly browsing the Web, reading News apps, watching Netflix, reading ebooks, remoting into other PCs/Macs, and playing games. I looked at that and said well I really was not having any issues doing any of that on my iPad 1. While the iPad 2 adds facetime, I already can do that on my iPhone 4 and my Mac mini (and now my MB Air). After seeing the low quality images from my iPad's 2 cameras I knew I would never use it for any real photography. Heck, my phone does a much better job.
While I am sure there will be games and apps that take advantage of the better specs of the iPad 2, there are many great games right now for my iPad 1 that would take me a year to get to.
Then a few days ago I was on a trip to Oakland. I was in the midst of some work projects and I felt I needed to take my laptop too. Dragging around that slow-booting, heavy, and unwieldy "relic" (though not old at all) reminded me I still need a laptop. And traveling with both laptop AND iPad was kind of a lot.
Seeing all those snazzy looking MacBook pros in the airport got me thinking I needed to just go with a 13" MB Pro: smaller, lighter, and sleeker than my HP laptop and indeed might not want to take my iPad on the road if I had it.
Didn't think the iPad 2 made sense at that point... I mean it was only an incremental upgrade and I figured why not wait for the iPad 3.
I went to craigslist first to look for a deal on a MBP. Whoa! LAST years models were being listed, as "firm", for only a couple of hundred dollars, if that, less than the new models--which are significantly improved in speed. No way did it seem to make sense, to me, to buy used at those prices.
So off to the Apple Store. There I played with MB Pros and found that while the 13" is indeed a fairly compact laptop, I would not call it super thin, nor super light. Placed next to an 11" MB Air it was HUGE. In fact the Air was not all that much larger than the iPad. It impressed me, far more than previous Airs had done.
Then after considering my laptop usage may not be all that much, I stuck to my guns about getting the cheapest Air available. And I am glad I did as it seems fast enough indeed.
So there you have it!
Michael
. At the end of the day it is not THAT much of an improvement over my iPad 1. So I am going to be selling or returning mine. Instead I bought a MacBook Air that will hopefully get used more than my current laptop. My current laptop is an HP so going to sell that too... first time in YEARS that I won't have a Windows laptop.
