iPad 1 clearanced out to $399 , REFURB only $349

[Hotherps]

If you gave away your old $600 iPad, it would have only cost $1.65 a day to own (assuming you owned it for a year). Sell it for $300 and the ownership cost drops to 82 cents per day or about $25 per month. Heck, I spend way more than that on Starbucks, or my cable bill.

I guess my point is, anyone who feels they're "screwed" because they are going to get $100 less for reselling an iPad, maybe needs to re-evaluate their finances better. Something having cost you $25 per month over the past year should be trivial.

I agree with this. People who bought the first gen iPod have had the best part of 9 months use / pleasure out of these devises. I didn't buy the original iPad but I'll be buying the iPad 2 - 64gb WiFi + 3G version as soon as I can.....

I've never been one for selling electronic stuff. If I upgrade I either keep the old one as a back-up or give it away to a friend or family member.

I've got a load of Nikon 35mm camera gear that cost me thousands but because of the switch to digital is now worth very little.... I'm not bothered though as I've had my fun out of owning and using the gear.

 

[zenio]

Price Rollback Walmarts Finest

Apple Online Store:

iPad 1 Clearance $399

iPad 1 Refurbished $349

It's good to see Apple learning from Walmart.

Clear out the old, with one of those cheesy yellow smilie faces and be done with it.

Before long we won't have to set foot in elitist Apple stores with their whitewashed walls and so called genius parts changers.

Yet that said, I stay out of both those stores and take care of business online.

I've also learned in this era of declining Apple quality, if you buy two of whatever you're ordering, there's a much better chance that one will work, and the other can be returned.

It saves one from the three month ordeal I went through last year, in a simple attempt to buy One New Properly Functioning MBP.

It's the "Apple Adventure" that's become so bizarre.

Yet it's easy to deal with when you re-frame you're thinking to accommodate Apples screw ups. If you know to expect problems, then there is no surprise.

Ya gotta love Apple, never a dull or predictable moment

It's exactly like gambling in Vegas, expensive and unpredictable.

 

[alent1234]

come to think of it, every apple product i own except for an old iphone 3G has broken at some point and been replaced

40GB ipod - bad hard drive
iphone 3G - never broke
iphone 3GS - replaced after 9 months
iphone 4 - replaced after 4 months

 

[zenio]

come to think of it, every apple product i own except for an old iphone 3G has broken at some point and been replaced

40GB ipod - bad hard drive
iphone 3G - never broke
iphone 3GS - replaced after 9 months
iphone 4 - replaced after 4 months

I think to a certain extent Apple has become so consumed by increasing revenue, that quality is an afterthought.

They've got the customers accepting anything they put out, so why not take advantage of that and flood the market with iOS devices?

Especially now facing an unknown future regarding the inevitable loss of their best pitchman.

Like Billy Mays the infomercial king, Jobs has got everyone hanging on his every word.

It's time for Apple to shove as many products out as possible, and worry about quality later.

 

[Yebot]

Do any of the VNC apps provide the performance of the remote screen sharing in Snow Leopard? Everything I've used has just painted the screen slowly from top to bottom.

Some VNC clients give you options to use image compression and lesser resolutions to give you faster "painting", but decreased overall image quality.

In my experience, slow rendering has less to do with whether you're using Leopard Screen Sharing vs a 3rd-party VNC client and more to do with connection speed.

In fact, I think I've given up on using Leopard Screen Sharing at home. I prefer Chicken of the VNC because you can save presets instead of waiting for Screen Sharing to find available machines via BonJour.

I use:

OS X:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/cotvnc/

For iOS:
http://www.iteleportmobile.com/