So I've been banging away at the Apple Store iPhone 5 reservation system for two weeks, ever since AT&T started offering me an early upgrade for my 4S. No success so far getting a phone, and it has been getting very frustrating, almost to the point of wanting to give up.
Now today Apple throws a curveball my way. They just announced the iPad 4. What?? Yes they did. I didn't expect that. Not at all.
So I own an iPad 3, and an iPhone 4S, and use the heck out of both of them. The iPad I use for both work and play. It's pretty much my laptop. I have a keyboard for it and do a lot of work on it, including heavy multitasking (app switching), remoting into my PC, the works. It works well, but the processor does lag, particularly on rendering complex PDFs. The lag is not a huge problem, but I've gotta think the A6X chip is going to absolutely SCREAM and the experience will be smooth as silk. The A6 on my wife's iPhone 5 sure screams.
Using eBay to sell my old device, the cash I would pony up to upgrade either the phone or the iPad is about $200. I'll have to add another $100 for all the new Lightning adapters (VGA, HDMI, camera) but I will need those at some point anyway, and I can sell the old ones.
So that's the decision I have to make before Friday's preorder. Leaning to the iPad at this point, by the logic that I would want the horsepower in that device first, and I go to it over the iPhone whenever I have both with me. But on the flipside, the phone is ALWAYS with me while the iPad is not always with me. Tough decision.
I will make my own call on this but am curious what others would do.
Now today Apple throws a curveball my way. They just announced the iPad 4. What?? Yes they did. I didn't expect that. Not at all.
So I own an iPad 3, and an iPhone 4S, and use the heck out of both of them. The iPad I use for both work and play. It's pretty much my laptop. I have a keyboard for it and do a lot of work on it, including heavy multitasking (app switching), remoting into my PC, the works. It works well, but the processor does lag, particularly on rendering complex PDFs. The lag is not a huge problem, but I've gotta think the A6X chip is going to absolutely SCREAM and the experience will be smooth as silk. The A6 on my wife's iPhone 5 sure screams.
Using eBay to sell my old device, the cash I would pony up to upgrade either the phone or the iPad is about $200. I'll have to add another $100 for all the new Lightning adapters (VGA, HDMI, camera) but I will need those at some point anyway, and I can sell the old ones.
So that's the decision I have to make before Friday's preorder. Leaning to the iPad at this point, by the logic that I would want the horsepower in that device first, and I go to it over the iPhone whenever I have both with me. But on the flipside, the phone is ALWAYS with me while the iPad is not always with me. Tough decision.
I will make my own call on this but am curious what others would do.