The new iPad, that’s what’s on everyone’s lips right now. Yesterday alone, I had a few conversations with a few people about whether or not they should get the new iPad and when to get it. My answer when it comes to Apple products is always, get it now. Get it as soon as it is out in your country, get it later and it will seem like it’s worth it. Unless you are one of those who don’t mind getting the older version, in this case, the iPad 2.
For eg. those who just bought the iPad 2 would have regretted yesterday, because the price of all iPad 2 has dropped by RM300 in anticipation that the new iPad will be marketed at the same price as the iPad 2’s previous pricing, that means starting from RM1499 for the lowest model. So the current 16gb iPad 2 is only RM1199, how cheap. Maybe in some countries, Apple does offer to exchange your new iPad 2 to the new iPad for free, but I guess not in Malaysia.
One such case is my own sister. My sister had been telling me she is going to get an iPad since the launch of the first iPad. She wanted to get it that December for Christmas or her birthday. Naturally, by December, rumours of the new iPad of that time would have surfaced, and naturally she’d want to wait for the bigger better version. At that time, then the iPad 2 came out. Lots of frenzy and excitement. I must say there was so much more hype that time than now. 3 of my sisters wanted to get the iPad 2, but only 1 successfully got it. The sister who wanted to wait, waited again for December. By December, it was clear that the new iPad would be launched early 2012. Now it would be silly to buy the iPad 2 in December when it was only a few more month’s wait. She waited, and then yesterday, it was launched.
So now she really wanted to get the new iPad. Well, I hope she successfully get it immediately this time, and not wait for another generation. By the time you finish the waiting game, a decade of iPad users have gone by before your eyes. The same goes for iPhones. I got my 3gs at launch a put a great more than 2 years of usage into it, and now I have my 4s at launch too, and foresee I won’t see its lag for a couple more years to go. Are you getting the new iPad now? Alternatively, get the cheaper iPad 2 at Apple store.