I got myself the new iPad in London two days after it launched and have been using it for a couple of days now. Not going to jump into praise of the display, because it has been done before countless times. Blah blah blah retina display blah blah. I didn’t get the LTE version because a) it doesn’t work in europe and b) I need the iPad for beta testing my iOS game rather than any travel-computing.
What I noticed that even after an hour of Infinity Blade II, the device is still cooler than a macbook running a flash animation. It doesn’t bother me at all and I was in fact expecting some heat anyway. It’s an electronic device, come on!
The all-night charging schedules are somewhat true, but I can get by with an hour of charging on occasions too, so it’s not that big of deal. The funny thing is that I recently bought some elements for my own solar charging rig and the battery I bought has the same capacity as the new iPad’s battery. The difference is that it’s as large as a Mac Mini and weights at about 5 kilograms. Putting that same capacity into a rather flat and light device is the thing that impressed me the most. All in all it’s a big change from the previous iPad’s and still the leading tablet brand.