You want to call my common sense into question? I leave a laptop in my car for short periods of time frequently with no issue. Lets go ahead and list accredited universities and job titles.
Only on Macrumors can someone come on to try and help others and be blasted for it
Okay, I'll bite. Per Apple's own specs (
http://www.apple.com/ipad/specs)
Environmental requirements
* Operating temperature: 32° to 95° F (0° to 35° C)
* Nonoperating temperature: -4° to 113° F (-20° to 45° C)
Now here is an example of what happens inside a car on a hot day...
http://www.weather.com/newscenter/specialtopics/slideshows/hotcar061909.html
After just one hour with an outside temp of 90°, the inside of a car is at 133°. Do a little extrapolation and figure that if it's 80° outside, the interior of your car will be well above 100° after an hour, and much hotter than that after
three hours.
I doubt anyone cares what you do or don't do with your laptop (and btw, it's not that smart to leave it in your car baking in the sun either), but Apple has explicitly given you the range of temperature in which the iPad is designed to operate. If you decide for whatever reason to attempt to operate it outside those limits, then no matter what your degrees and job title might infer, you aren't using very much common sense.