I didn’t buy an iPad last year when they were first introduced. I wasn’t sure if I had a use for one, and I do agree with the general rule that you never buy first generation Apple hardware. When the iPad 2 was introduced however, all bets were off. And so now I’m writing this post on my brand new 16gb iPad.
A year of people using the original convinced me that it’s not something I’m going to play with for a little while and then never use again. One of the problems I’ve had with the iPhone is that the three and a half inch display is very fatiguing to look at for long stretches of time. The iPad with it’s nearly ten inch display does not suffer from that problem. Also I’m planning on watching a lot of baseball with the MLB At Bat app. Plus whenever I travel I think I’ll enjoy the iPad’s form factor for reading books and watching video.
Now I’ve only had the iPad for nine hours, but so far it’s behaved exactly like you’d expect an Apple product would. I was up and running within minutes of getting it out of the box. There are a couple of things i still need to do — like pick up one of those fancy magic covers — but all in all I’m highly pleased with the decision to buy the new iPad.