iPad

[RiK]

The air is utterly beautiful and awesome, it just feels like a largeish iPad mini. Probably one of the nicest things I've bought for ages

Hoorah! May pop down and get mine tomorrow, if not sometime next week :-)

[Misfit]

I need to see the air in the flesh. Am tempted to move to it from the mini after the comments I'm seeing like Gravy's....

[Whiteball]

I'm really tempted by the new air, but wondering if its worth it over the one I have now?

Currently I've got a 32GB 3rd Gen retina with wifi & 3G. Not sure what i could get flogging it off and ebay is just a hassle with this sort of thing, but I am tempted to try.

Unless any one here is interested? It's pristine with original box and charger etc and has a flip cover although not an official Apple one it is practically the same.

[t0ne]

I'm not looking at them as I've got a 128Gb iPad 4 that's only 5 months old that I'm perfectly happy with. Honestly I don't want a new one. No sir, not me. I mean it ... nnnnggggg....

[The Caffeine Kid]

I'm not looking at them as I've got a 128Gb iPad 4 that's only 5 months old that I'm perfectly happy with. Honestly I don't want a new one. No sir, not me. I mean it ... nnnnggggg....

I'm sure a retina mini would compliment that nicely

[MattyP]

Just picked up an iPad 2.

Did have an iPad 1 which I bought at launch but my nippers managed to dent the back of it and damage the screen on the front. It was still operational but just cosmetically tarnished and I'm just a touch OCD about my tech in this respect. Also it kept dropping out of the browser and generally felt a bit unstable in use with the last Apple update I did on it.

Think it was mainly to do with lack of memory.... Hoping that the 2 is much better. Costing me couple of hundred notes (16GB WIFI) version which I think is reasonable? Anyway be good to be back with an iPad again.... got a cheap Android tablet earlier in the year - whilst not bad it was no iPad for sure (even through the specs on paper were better!).

Was going to go for a mini but like the extra space as I tend to read mags and books on it too... so 9.7" suits me better.

Anybody any experience with 2's? Are they more stable than the original iPad? (have twice the memory so assume many of the memory problems will have gone!?) Also it's dual core so I assume things will be smoother too? How is iOS 7 on it? It's already being installed on it so hope its reasonably nippy!

Pick it up tonight... new tech (to me) excitement is kicking in....

[Misfit]

The 2 is good enough that Apple still sell it even though it's now 3 revisions behind (The Air is actually an iPad 5) and it's the same spec as the Mini 1.

I use my Mini daily and it runs everything well and my mum has our old 2 and uses it constantly for web, email and card/word games.

The latest games will run on it (I've got Xcom, real racing 3 etc) on the Mini but they are reduced a bit graphically as the benchmarks are way behind the iPad 4/5.

Haven't used a 2 for a while, I suspect if the screen resolution will be a little low if you are picky or happen to have a Retina or recent Android device near by. But all in all it's still a solid piece of kit.

[MattyP]

The 2 is good enough that Apple still sell it even though it's now 3 revisions behind (The Air is actually an iPad 5) and it's the same spec as the Mini 1.

Haven't used a 2 for a while, I suspect if the screen resolution will be a little low if you are picky or happen to have a Retina or recent Android device near by. But all in all it's still a solid piece of kit.

I thought this... and was my main reason for going for iPad 2 - Apple still support it!

Not too fussed about retina TBH. Don't have a basis for comparison... only my original iPad and the Android tab I got earlier in the year. I was always suitably impressed with the original iPads screen anyway! So what I don't have I won't miss as it were LOL....

[Misfit]

It's amazing Apple can still get the asking price for the 2 based on it's age. If you were buying new there is no way I'd recommend it as it's not a huge amount more to the base Air and the difference is worth the extra. Second hand though obviously it's a lot more reasonable.

Enjoy.

I still find my Apple stuff just works and anything else I get needs some level of faffing and I don't have time for the latter any more. (I'm such a grumpy old git these days).

[MattyP]

Enjoy.

I still find my Apple stuff just works and anything else I get needs some level of faffing and I don't have time for the latter any more. (I'm such a grumpy old git these days).

I will ta!

And yes this is *exactly* why I have gone back to Apple kit recently. After my Windows Phone broke... and my poor experience with "faffy" Android tabs.

Apple kit just feels like solid tools to do a job. Maybe not as feature rich as some devices but the features that are there are designed and work really well. As good tools should!

[MattyP]

Well picked up my new (old) iPad 2 last night!

Have to say I am very impressed it's a huge improvement over my old iPad 1. No hanging or drop backs to the gome screen. Must have definately been a memory problem on the original iPad.

One thing that struct me is the phernominal battery life of iPads. It's great. Was using in for around 4 hours last night full time - web browsing, emailing, skyping and a 20min facetime video coversation with my brother. Still at over 70% battery this morning.

Been busy downloading my old apps and realising how much I missed my iPad. Garageband is still as awesome as ever.

Guess you pay for what you get really. Will be avoiding cheaper tablets in future and sticking with iPads. Good exeriment though to try other pads out there. But iPad for me all the way from now on. Apple have nailed it for me.

[merman]

Must admit, I'm sticking with iOS 6 on my iPad 2 for now. Used to how it works/looks.

[Deckard]

It is odd to be running iOS6 on my iPad and iOS7 on iPhone but I am loathe to lose my JB - Keep sweeping the wrong way for spotlight search

[random_dave]

so does anyone have an ipad 2/3 that they're looking to sell at a favourable avoiding ebay type price, I have a workmate looking for (probably an ipad 2 ) for as best a price as he can for a xmas present

[random_dave]

hnggg, retina minis are now on sale

must not hand over £400 to apple, but really want to, I feel like i've been wanting this device for about 2 years now