All iPads iPad Air or iPad Air 2 ?

[scarrz]

Received the iPad air today. In fact it still has the Apple warranty through 10/2015 and appears in great shape. For $290, 32gb I'm very close to just keeping it and waiting it out to see what comes down the pipe from apple regarding the next gen iPad.

Great posts and helps a great deal to here the pros and cons.

I think RebornProphet has a really good point: the iPad Air 2 is faster, but you wont see much of a difference even in the higher end apps for a while. By the time you'll really NEED that extra performance, the iPad Air 2 will be history already.

The better resale value of the iPad Air 2 is an argument, but only if you don't skip a generation before you sell and upgrade. Once it's more than one generation behind, general condition will have the biggest influence on the price.

So I'd say -- objective/economic choice: iPad Air, subjective/emotional choice: iPad Air 2

 

[RebornProphet]

Now, THERE WAS NO need to get SO aggressive. I said that i believe you, but it was hard to do so, because your experience was very different from mine. And you attacked me in a stupid way. Check my posts: I complained about having a bad experience with the iPad Air way before buying an iPad Air 2! I have been complaing about it for a whole freaking year! I even sayed that 4 gave
me a way better experience. Infact if i was happy with my Air 1, i would not have buyed an iPad Air 2 AT ALL. it can be an ok experience for you and there's nothing wrong with it, but it was a crappy experience from me, not for someone found on google, so i'm free to give my advice, just like you are. And my advice is to avoid that device. Full stop. Or should "go and buy it" be the only allowed answer? If the same question was about the 5s vs the 6 i would have sayed that the 5s is still a very good device. So i suggest you not to go around judging people you have never met and don't know at all. You are 36, married and you still have to grow up a bit and learn something about being polite with people. A Lot of people need to stop being arrogant rude asses BY DEFAULT

I found your opening sentence on the post I replied to originally to be condescending but the final part of my post about people attacking outgoing models when a new one comes out and needing to grow up was a generalisation of this forum, not just you.

 

[aneftp]

Either way. Try to find iPad on sale.

iPad sales are down again. So look for discounts.

Many of us got iPads air 2 on Black Friday and various days for $100 off from best buy or $140 target gift cards.

My kid cracked his iPad air (2013) last week. So I ended up selling the 32gb cracked iPad air for cheap $220 on Craigslist rather than repair it on Craigslist for $80-100. The quality of glass repair on Craigslist varies. And apple charges $300 for out of warranty repair.

So picked up iPad air 2 64gb for $550 at best buy today. Plus had 10%! Movers coupon. So got it for $495 64gb iPad air 2 wifi.