Okay, it's 5:53 pm EST - where are the impressions???

I'm surprised I haven't yet read user reports regarding their new iPads. Surely someone must have one by now and can at least report on some of the basics like is the weight difference wrt iPad 1 noticeable? Same thing with the thickness? Speed - any obvious observations besides Safari (4.3 on iPad 1 is noticeably faster?

What are the lines like? Plenty of choices in stock?.....

MBPro 3.06 GHz, 8 GB, Mac OS X (10.6.5), 2xMini; iPad 64 3G, iTouch; many ExtHDs, 3xdrobo@6TB, Apple TV 1gen with aTV

Posted on Mar 11, 2011 2:56 PM

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Mar 11, 2011 6:10 PM in response to pvonk

Ok I have now played with it for a while. Safari is fast. Over my Wifi n. NY Times main page loads in about 2 seconds. Subsequent pages take about 2 sec on first load. If you scroll immediately upon page load, you get maybe a half second of checkerboard before the lower sections display. Cycling thru the tsunami photos is instantaneous (which might be due to how they are cached, not sure.)Scrolling is instantaneous. A first load of an interactive feature page take a second for most of the items to load, then another second or two for the full page.

On first load, app store took about 3 second to load. After than, it was immediate.

I also bought the smart cover (plastic one. $80 for leather? Puh-leez)It is actually quite nice when you have the iPad on your lap. Nice angle.

OK, that's it for now, more later.

Mar 11, 2011 6:42 PM in response to keyboardoperator

Addendum: I think the speaker sounds great. I have the iPad propped up on the smart cover (typing position) and the music is very clear and audible at 1/3 volume. At full volume it too loud. I could def see playing music through it while, say, making dinner, with no issues at all.

Caveat: I have an iPod, but this is my first iPad, so take all this with a grain of salt. I did read complaints about the iPad1 speaker, so that's why I posted this.

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