iPad Air 2 and iPad Mini 3. Gonna get one?

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#1160674 23-Oct-2014 14:03

And mine has apparently arrived. Better go downstairs and get it!

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#1160675 23-Oct-2014 14:05

MattEast:
Paul1977: Mine's out for delivery in Christchurch

Mighty impressed given these devices were still in Sydney at 6pm last night! I wonder how many they shipped in the first run?

Its not bad.

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#1160678 23-Oct-2014 14:10

Paul1977: And mine has apparently arrived. Better go downstairs and get it!

OK, was a little concerned that the box said "iPad Air" and not iPad Air 2". However it has Touch ID button, so must be the right one.

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#1160695 23-Oct-2014 14:32

I love the iPad itself, but am decidedly unimpressed with the "black" smart cover - it's grey, not even close to black :(

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#1160724 23-Oct-2014 14:47

recieved mine this morning!! damn this thing is fast!!! makes my my iPhone 6 feel like last years device already :(

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#1160725 23-Oct-2014 14:49

livisun: recieved mine this morning!! damn this thing is fast!!! makes my my iPhone 6 feel like last years device already :(

Thanks for that, had no need to upgrade iPad Air, till now......

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#1160727 23-Oct-2014 14:51

We are in business!

Need to go and upgrade the SIM card now....there's my afternoon gone

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#1160756 23-Oct-2014 15:13

nathan:
Paul1977:
dickytim: I quite like the look of one of these.

http://www.belkin.com/au/F5L176/p/P-F5L176/

I wouldn't have an Ipad without a keyboard after using my ipad4 with one since almost new!

I have to admit I never saw the point of this. If you are going to do this, why not get a nice slim laptop instead?

Because its not an iPad! ;)

And that is more or less the only appeal they have....

Less actual use than a laptop but a more fashionable accessory.

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#1161010 23-Oct-2014 21:33

Geektastic:
nathan:
Paul1977:
dickytim: I quite like the look of one of these.

http://www.belkin.com/au/F5L176/p/P-F5L176/

I wouldn't have an Ipad without a keyboard after using my ipad4 with one since almost new!

I have to admit I never saw the point of this. If you are going to do this, why not get a nice slim laptop instead?

Because its not an iPad! ;)

And that is more or less the only appeal they have....

Less actual use than a laptop but a more fashionable accessory.

Not trying to be argumentative, and I realise I wont change your mind, but I got my girl friend an Ipad after our laptop crapped out. Initially she took mine and wouldn't give it back so I got her a 16GB one as 128gb was wasted on her! In the over a year since the laptop died she has not once missed having an actual computer. She thought a lot along the line you are expressing here until she experienced the device for herself.

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#1161012 23-Oct-2014 21:35

Got my tracking number, should see it on Monday, unless I get really lucky, but I doubt it as the tracking number was created at 8pm NZ time so 6pm AUST time so likely missed the days courier run and cut off times.

No stress, as I expected it to take over a week to get to me. I am suitably impressed with my first purchase from Apple directly!

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#1161029 23-Oct-2014 21:53

Geektastic:
nathan:
Paul1977:
dickytim: I quite like the look of one of these.

http://www.belkin.com/au/F5L176/p/P-F5L176/

I wouldn't have an Ipad without a keyboard after using my ipad4 with one since almost new!

I have to admit I never saw the point of this. If you are going to do this, why not get a nice slim laptop instead?

Because its not an iPad! ;)

And that is more or less the only appeal they have....

Less actual use than a laptop but a more fashionable accessory.

To paraphrase my old signal processing lecturer:

"Geektastic you're not often right........ but you're wrong again"

For me it's a totally different use case. I use a notebook for intense work - spreadsheets, writing word docs, doing long emails.

An iPad is great for casual browsing, surfing geekzone, seeing what time a movie is on, checking in on a site at night etc, triaging email that is a it bigger than a two word answer. Using a notebook is a closed off experience, especially on the couch. An iPad is quite different.

YMMV but for me I would much rather use an iPad for this type of use.

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#1161107 24-Oct-2014 05:17

Received mine late Thursday afternoon - all up and running.

Sometimes I just sit and think. Other times I just sit.

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#1161117 24-Oct-2014 06:25

Well bugger me! My Ipad is at the Auckland Sorting facility as at 4:53.

What a pleasant surprise!

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#1161190 24-Oct-2014 09:58

dickytim: Well bugger me! My Ipad is at the Auckland Sorting facility as at 4:53.

What a pleasant surprise!

I'm surprised you didn't receive it yesterday, you ordered Saturday morning didn't you?

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#1161195 24-Oct-2014 10:08

dickytim:

Not trying to be argumentative, and I realise I wont change your mind, but I got my girl friend an Ipad after our laptop crapped out. Initially she took mine and wouldn't give it back so I got her a 16GB one as 128gb was wasted on her! In the over a year since the laptop died she has not once missed having an actual computer. She thought a lot along the line you are expressing here until she experienced the device for herself.

My wife was the same. When the iPad initially launched, she had no idea what the point of the device was, and was dead against "wasting money" on one.

About a year later I won an iPad 2 in an online competition. She took to it like a duck to water, and now would not be without it. And last year she practically begged me to upgrade to an iPad Air.

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