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iPad iPad 4 owners How many of you are keeping your iPads?

iPad 4 owners How many of you are keeping your iPads?

  • I'm very happy with my iPad 4 and don't need an iPad Air

    Votes: 81 53.3%

  • I think the iPad Air is a big enough upgrade and I'm keeping it

    Votes: 71 46.7%
  • Total voters
    152
ZBoater said:
So you are saying an iPad 4 running iOS 6 is better than an Air running iOS because iOS 7 is supposedly buggy? :confused:

Ummmm, ok. My Commodore 64 still runs pretty good too.
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For me, keeping the iPad 4 on iOS 6 instead of getting the iPad Air on iOS 7 is akin keeping a Sandy Bridge/Ivy Bridge laptop on Windows 7 instead of getting a Haswell ultrabook on Windows 8/8.1. The latter is faster, smaller, lighter and has better battery life. However, for me the interface leaves a lot to be desired. Everything in iOS 7 is just so bright. If there was a way to skin the iOS interface without jailbreaking like you can do on Android, I wouldn't actually mind. Heck, I'd be happy if Apple had included a proper dark/night theme instead of that invert color weirdness.
 
I am keeping my iPad 4 , it hasn't let me down yet! On a side note I did get rid of my iPhone 5 and got a note 3.
 
Originally planned on selling it until I experienced the unstable crashing due to only 1 gb of ram in the Air.
I now plan on selling the crashing memory crippled Air instead.
 
I changed my mind I was going to hold on to my 4th gen for another year. I decided to get the air since I was able to sell my iPad for a reasonable amount. To me the air is perfect except for the lack of ram.
 
I sold my well used, though mint, 16gb iPad 4 wifi for $375 and bought the Air for $475. I would say $100 for upgrading to a NEW, lighter, thinner, faster, and prettier Air is well worth it.
 
iPad 4 owners How many of you are keeping your iPads?

Bought an ipad 4 6 months before the ipad air release. Maybe when the a7x or a8x released, i will upgrade
 
OSMac said:
If you have an iPad 4 on iOS 6 it's gold...

Keep it.
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I agree... I have an 64 GB iPad 4 running iOS 6 and that is the perfect combination for me... I have tried using iPad Air, I like the fact that it is lighter although I don't find iPad 4 too heavy at all...
 
I don't know .... The only big leap for me would be the weight: I'd like to have a lighter tablet with me, since I use it quite a lot.
But I'm very happy with my iPad 4 and I don't know if I can afford the upgrade (since I'm also looking at the iPhone 5s) ...
 
Rightly or wrongly, I feel the iPad Air is just too flimsy. I like the feel of sturdiness in the iPad 4. I'm keeping mine.
 
I sold my iPad 4 two weeks ago for a good price. Now I am waiting for my 2nd iPad Air, because the first one had dead pixels.

I was very happy with my iPad 4. It was really in daily use, also on vacation (Navigation, Airplane, Train, Mobile Cinema). It was my first iPad. I sold my iPad 4, because the resell price was very good now. In some weeks or month it won't. I think I will resell my iPad every year to get the new version.
 
Macalway said:
The resale value on these is dismal
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Not sure which model of the iPad 4 that would apply to... I had (regrettably) the WiFi-only 64GB iPad 4 (before they refreshed the line with 128GB models). Purchased for about $630 (when they offered a 10% discount on Black Friday in 2012).

This past Black Friday, auctioned it off for $540 (net ~$530 after shipping). I guess it's all relative, but only $100 for using it for a year... I can live with that.

$530 went toward a new iPad Mini Retina 128 WiFi+LTE. Net price (including AppleCare+), $398...not a bad trade. I'm planning on keeping this one for a while, but if something else comes up on Black Friday 2014...who knows? :)
 
I got the LTE Air and am keeping my 4. The 4 stays on the bedroom desk for reading emails in the middle of the night while the LTE goes with me in the field.
 
Keeping the iPad 4. I'm a med student and use it heavily for PDFs, lecture videos, and light note-taking. Don't need the extra performance and the new form factor doesn't justify the upgrade cost for me.
 
Got the Air and kept my 4. Watchin' Netflix (on the 4) and surfing the internet while in bed!
 
As usual I didn't resist ..... just switched from the 4 to the new Air.
So far I'm happy: the new form factor and the weight are just wonderful.
The only iPad iteration I left was the iPad 3.
 
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It's a monumental upgrade to me so upgrading makes perfect sense. The iPad 4 is too heavy and thick to use like a proper tablet, which is why a lot of people bought minis. I think the thinness and lightness make the Air a very worthy upgrade over the 3rd or 4th gens.
 
patseguin said:
It's a monumental upgrade to me so upgrading makes perfect sense. The iPad 4 is too heavy and thick to use like a proper tablet, which is why a lot of people bought minis. I think the thinness and lightness make the Air a very worthy upgrade over the 3rd or 4th gens.
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Exaggerate a little bit ?

Too heavy and thick to use like a proper tablet ? C'mon ...
Surely iPad air is better on that side, but iPad 3 and 4 set the market standard for a "proper tablet" anyway.

Btw I think most of the people bought iPad Minis because they are cheaper :D
 
Ipadlover29 said:
iPad 4 owners How many of you are keeping your iPads?
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I upgraded my 2 x iPad 3 to iPad 4 128 Gb models after PC World (computer retailer in the United Kingdom) slashed the price progressively from £739 to £429. No brainer really :D

Once bitten twice shy. After Apple's "limited edition" iPad 3, I'm holding off and waiting for the next revision of the Air.

Weight was never an issue for me, and I seriously doubt that any "iPad Air" only Apps will surface before the next revision.

P.S The 128Gb iPad 4 models sold out like hot cakes after the price slash. I got in just in time :cool:
 
just bought a discounted 128gb IPAD 4 for less than the price of a 32gb Air

so very happy :) can live with the extra weight
 
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