and decided to upgrade from my 64gb ipad3 with 3g. Ordered a 32gb black wireless-only iPad mini 2 and it just arrived a few hours ago. I could come up with a hundred reasons about how the previous ipad3 was starting to feel slow and all, but truth is, I just wanted to upgrade. With the money from selling my iphone4s, plus my learning device claim from the school, the iPad's practically free.
Now setting it up fresh by downloading all my apps. I could have simply restored from a backup, but I also wanted to use this opportunity to clear out some of the clutter from my previous iPad. Am I thankful for cloud syncing services which prevent me from having to set everything up from scratch or re-download everything.
Some thoughts and observations thus far (I haven't really gotten a chance to play around with it much yet).
1) icloud keychain is very useful for syncing all my passwords to a new device. I think this is a vastly underrated feature which didn't get any press, and while it probably applies only once per new device, I find it a welcome convenience nonetheless.
2) It is light! As a teacher, I teach with my iPad in class and I look forward to moving around my classroom with a lighter and more portable device. My pdfs also render noticeably faster and my apps load and run spiffier. I just hope I don't accidentally fling it across the class by accident!
3) Anyone know how to get my iMessages onto my new iPad? Will it all show up when I message someone? Haven't tried it out yet.
4) I was still dithering over whether to get the 4g iPad or not, but finally decided against it because I realised that when I do use my iPad, it was on wifi like 95% of the time. I intend to get a mifi device for my macbook and felt there was no point paying for yet another data plan (boy do these things really add up).
5) Worse comes to worse, I have over a week to return it. So yeah, really look forward to testing it out over the next couple of days.
Just thought I would share.
Now setting it up fresh by downloading all my apps. I could have simply restored from a backup, but I also wanted to use this opportunity to clear out some of the clutter from my previous iPad. Am I thankful for cloud syncing services which prevent me from having to set everything up from scratch or re-download everything.
Some thoughts and observations thus far (I haven't really gotten a chance to play around with it much yet).
1) icloud keychain is very useful for syncing all my passwords to a new device. I think this is a vastly underrated feature which didn't get any press, and while it probably applies only once per new device, I find it a welcome convenience nonetheless.
2) It is light! As a teacher, I teach with my iPad in class and I look forward to moving around my classroom with a lighter and more portable device. My pdfs also render noticeably faster and my apps load and run spiffier. I just hope I don't accidentally fling it across the class by accident!
3) Anyone know how to get my iMessages onto my new iPad? Will it all show up when I message someone? Haven't tried it out yet.
4) I was still dithering over whether to get the 4g iPad or not, but finally decided against it because I realised that when I do use my iPad, it was on wifi like 95% of the time. I intend to get a mifi device for my macbook and felt there was no point paying for yet another data plan (boy do these things really add up).
5) Worse comes to worse, I have over a week to return it. So yeah, really look forward to testing it out over the next couple of days.
Just thought I would share.
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