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Hello,
I have a 1st generation Ipad. It fell off the bed last night onto tile flooring.
The ipad does not update past IOS 10, and is pretty slow doing anything.
Is it really worth fixing the screen? (I’m a college student so I don’t have all the money in the world to throw around)
iPad, iOS 10
Apple doesn't even list what it would cost to repair a First Generation iPad. A second generation would run $US 249. For just little but more you could get yourself a brand new, super fast and incredibly functional iPad that would floor the doors off the venerable First Generation you have now. (Maybe it's worth keeping as a collectors item, cracked screen notwithstanding. Or you could recycle it through Apple. But I would definitely, if I were win your shoes, not spend another second thinking about repairing the old iPad and instead think about how much you can budget towards a new one -- that will be so much more capable, so much faster and just some much more fun to use that you will, in my opinion, never look back.
Just look at what $409 will get you in the Mac Educational store, and you can get a free pair of AirPods in the process! That's just for example.
Happy shopping and good luck in school!
-- JDee
Apple doesn't even list what it would cost to repair a First Generation iPad. A second generation would run $US 249. For just little but more you could get yourself a brand new, super fast and incredibly functional iPad that would floor the doors off the venerable First Generation you have now. (Maybe it's worth keeping as a collectors item, cracked screen notwithstanding. Or you could recycle it through Apple. But I would definitely, if I were win your shoes, not spend another second thinking about repairing the old iPad and instead think about how much you can budget towards a new one -- that will be so much more capable, so much faster and just some much more fun to use that you will, in my opinion, never look back.
Just look at what $409 will get you in the Mac Educational store, and you can get a free pair of AirPods in the process! That's just for example.
Happy shopping and good luck in school!
-- JDee
Apple does not repair iPad at all. It would be a complete, utter, total waste of money to spend any money on such an old, out of date, no longer supported iPad. Your 10 year old iPad is pretty much useless anymore.
If ever you needed incentive to invest in a more modern iPad, you now have the best reason to do so.
Worth fixing - for an iPad4 (you mentioned be limited to iOS10) definitely not. The iPad is obsolete.
The money that would be spent towards a “repair” is far better spent towards a replacement iPad - that is capable of running iPadOS13/14 and all current Apps.
Of current models of iPad, even the entry-level iPad7 fits these criteria, other models offer a step-up in performance, features and cost.
Whether a 2010, 1st gen iPad or a 2012, 4th gen iPad, neither are worth repairing.
Time for a new, new refurbished, or much, MUCH newer, used iPad model.
If you decide to purchase another iPad and must purchase older, used iPad models, DO NOT look at anything older than a 2014 iPad Air 2 or 2015 iPad Mini 4.
Both of these models are the oldest iPad models that the up and coming iPadOS 14 will support, in the Fall of 2020.
If you must purchased used devices from unknown, untrusted sources, you must ask A WHOLE LOT more questions of the iOS device seller, ask for more photo/images, ask if the iPad has user/iCloud activation lock and ask for photos/images/short video proof, ANY REAL, UNQUESTIONABLE, UNMISTAKEABLE, VISUAL PROOF, that such an iPad has been reset to factory settings and shown proof of the iOS device's start up screen showing the animated, moving, multi-language “Hello” Welcome to iPad screen.p
If the iOS device seller is unwilling to do all of this to show you that the iPad, in question, is ready to use with no barriers to new user activation and use, pass on the iOS device and look at other iOS device sellers, elsewhere, who will be more accommodating to answering questions and providing visual image or video proof of a proper factory reset iPad.
Sorry & Best of Luck to You!
Cracked screen on Ipad
