I Pad recommendation

Rev Jules · 23rd October 2015, 20:01

My wife wants an IPad at a reasonable price, about 300 quid, any ideas.
Rev Jules

coolcat · 23rd October 2015, 21:48

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Originally Posted by Rev Jules

My wife wants an IPad at a reasonable price, about 300 quid, any ideas.
Rev Jules

Hi Julien,

The main things to consider are which size iPad she wants.
There are three sizes although the largest is way over budget.
Then it's down to whether you want 3G (not worth it in my opinion as you can always tether to your phone anyhow) and how much onboard memory you want.
Remember you can store stuff to the cloud or external hard drive for backing up so not as important as you might think.

There's not much discounting to be had from Apple products so work out the above and you will know what model you want and whether it comes in on or around your budget

Simondi · 24th October 2015, 08:16

And of course, is definitely an ipad as opposed to a tablet?
Lots of Android tablets out there too

Rev Jules · 24th October 2015, 09:50

I have an IPad Air, 16 gb, but there is now an Air 2, which I thought might be okay, just fishing for peoples thoughts.

Many Thanks.

Rev Jules

Robti · 24th October 2015, 14:14

Pretty sure John Lewis are doing a 3 year warranty on these, I also have a 16gb air and as you know with the os and a few apps you are left with around 6.5gb of storage which means only 1 Hd film if it's downloaded onto the iPad.

As I only use mine indoors with wifi all my films and music is in the cloud, I don't know if it's a big enough jump to pay the extra for a air2 over an air.

Tenesmus · 26th October 2015, 23:02

Nowadays people say iPad in the same way as hoover. It's like me saying I want to buy a Ford, but what I mean is I want to buy a car...

For what it's worth Mrs Tenesmus loves her iPad mini, I got her one because she already had an iPhone. If she had eg a Samsung phone I'd have got her a Samsung tablet, and so on.

Dragrad · 27th October 2015, 01:14

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Originally Posted by Tenesmus

Nowadays people say iPad in the same way as hoover. It's like me saying I want to buy a Ford, but what I mean is I want to buy a car...

For what it's worth Mrs Tenesmus loves her iPad mini, I got her one because she already had an iPhone. If she had eg a Samsung phone I'd have got her a Samsung tablet, and so on.

Samsung would be, IMO, a better option

So many problems with I-whatever-pad IMO And from experiences with colleagues.....

Les4048 · 27th October 2015, 05:01

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Originally Posted by Dragrad

Samsung would be, IMO, a better option

So many problems with I-whatever-pad IMO And from experiences with colleagues.....

I've had iPhones since the 3G and on my second iPad it's the iPad 2 with 128gb but no 3G, as Jeff stated there's no point. Carole my partner also had the phone and pad and we both have the Apple Watch and never in all those years had a problem

coolcat · 27th October 2015, 07:25

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Originally Posted by Dragrad

Samsung would be, IMO, a better option

So many problems with I-whatever-pad IMO And from experiences with colleagues.....

No problems whatsoever with our three iPads or any of my friends that own them

Or our iPhones or my iMac

Ravinder · 31st October 2015, 12:43

Don't get the 16gb one, memory will be full in no time.

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Rev Jules This is my second home Rover 75 Tourer+ Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: Radcliffe on Trent Posts: 10,718 Thanks: 7,308 Thanked 3,929 Times in 2,051 Posts	I have an IPad Air, 16 gb, but there is now an Air 2, which I thought might be okay, just fishing for peoples thoughts. Many Thanks. Rev Jules

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