If I upgraded now my outlay would be less than half the cost of your laptop.

 

Hardly cashing in, you get all the cables you need in the box. So at most all you may need to buy extra is an adaptor from the old plug to the new one, which iirc only costs twenty quid.

Oh and Tony, making a laptop/tablet last 5 years shouldbe easy enough. My old Fuji Siemens laptop lasted 6 years before I retired it and my ipad is coming up on 3 years with no trouble.

 

You can get the adapter for £2 on eBay

 

In the last 5 years I'm on my 4th laptop as I like having a good spec so I'm always upgrading, A 5 year old laptop won't be up to much as memory and hard drive will be so low and I presume downloading and viewing the web will cause the laptop to run slow?

 

My 5 year old hp laptop has had a new lease of life with a ssd hdd install, I run 2Gb of ram aswell. Easily a match for my wife's new i7 Intel laptop.

 

Well picked up a 32gb iPad air today, a HUGE difference to my iPad 2 also feels a lot better in my hands than the 2 too.

Not had enough hands on to comment on speed but so far so good

 

Why not oil and polish your abacus too

 

OK Apple peeps if I head to an Apple Store tomorrow is this thing going to be in stock?

 

Believe it or not to save me the hassle of driving 1hr 30 round trip, argos came up trumps

PC world would be worth a shot too, all the same price.

Also John Lewis give 2 year warranty

 

One thing I've noticed the glass is a lot thinner and has a hollow feel to it, anyone else notice this?

 

I would make sure that is in a good protective case quick

 

ordered

 

Also had mine a few days, 16GB 4G/WIFI version. As above much lighter and thinner than the 2, also a great improvement on the speed of loading games and apps. Happy so far. Also got a 5s at the same time which I can report only good things so far.

 

Now the hardware isn't bottle necking the wireless speed . Fastest I've had with an ipad

 

Nice.

Here's the best I've recorded on the iPad 2 http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/i/413371795

 

Not really - I bought an Air for my wife - £400 - but her old iPad 1 is likely to fetch close to £100 - I don't think that's too bad

 

Exactly

Cost me £220 to upgrade from a 3G 16 gig ipad2 to wifi only 32 gig ipad air.

Could have got more for the 2 but priced it for a quick sale.

The air seems significantly smaller and lighter to use than it is on paper. A good bit faster (but then my 2 was never slow). Smart case expensive but works really well and doesn't add to the bulk at all (unlike the cases and covers fro earlier ipads.

Only negative observation is that the glass does sometimes feel plasticky compared to the 2, but its hardly an issue.

All in a worthy upgrade from the 2, but for anyone thinking about it I'm not so sure I'd have bothered from a 3 or 4, unless size and weight were that important.

 

Anyone know what is the best SSH terminal app for iPad?

Also is there a decent calculator app that doens't have advertising all over it?

 

Would consider upgrading iPad 1 (because it keeps crashing in Safari, probably runs out of memory and some new software won't work on iOS 5 which is the max it will "upgrade" to), but can't be bothered with the hassle of selling it on ebay for example. Any trade in deals that are OK?

My Dad says he keeps his iPad 1 to slice his lime on to put in his breakfast vodka and thinks it may be useful for hand to hand combat in the care home.

 

Take a look at Diet Coda, it contains Prompt which is a good terminal on it's own. The FTP is based on Transmit so that's great too.

http://panic.com/dietcoda/

 

Thanks Jack

 

OK new to these iPad things so am I missing something here?

I have IOS 7.0.3 running and I have a PIN number set to access the device. If I wake the device up I get a screen telling me to swipe whereupon I get another screen to enter my PIN number which opens the device (widgets displayed etc.)

However if I wake the device up and instead of swiping drag the camera up to open the camera and then press the home button I have access to the device (widgets displayed etc.) without entering my PIN? Surely this is wrong yes?

 

You should be running IOS 7.0.4.

The initial release of Ios7 had a few glitches.

Go into settings, then general and click 'software update'.

 

It isn't the initial release it's 7.0.3, I only updated it a week ago, saw the 7.0.4 release but no mention of this issue on the release notes.

 

All I can say is that I have 7.0.4 and it doesn't do that ( tried it when I saw your post).

 

i can check for you, 1 minute


yup as said 7.0.4 doesn't do it

 

Make sure you're waiting long enough before trying the camera route. It's never been that easy to break in.

 

Yes tried that and it still did it. Turned it off and restarted and then it was normal again. Upgraded to 7.04 now anyway, cheers all

 

Is it still the case that you can only run a single iTunes user on iPad? I fancy getting one for me and the wife to share but would I assume only one of you can be logged into apps like Facebook?

 

Correct.