The text clarity alone is worth the price.
I used my iPad 1 for a lot of reading and often needed to zoom on smaller text .
The new iPad 3 hits the sweet spot. Just like reading a magazine.
It would be preferable if Apple actually named the device - 'new iPad' is ridiculous and it is difficult to search google for info.
No prob with heat or wifi. 3g works just fine too.
I've had difficulty in converting video to play back OK. Handbrake encodes often result in 'not playable' error. I would like to encode so video will play back on both my apple tv 3 and ipad 3.
Another issue is that TV series will not show on the iPad 3 under video. There is an option to show 'Movies' , but not video flagged with 'TV'.
Overall, apple have a great ecosystem between the hardware , software and purchasing systems. Things play nicely together and performance is good (although , itunes runs so slowly on my PC which has 8gb ram , 2600k intel cpu, & OCZ vertex 3 SSD??Apple really need to sort out itunes performance).