New and improved
My dear wife Karen went out during her week off and bought herself a new iPad.
I surely applaud the move. She’d been working with the hand-me-down gifted from my first iPad Air for almost two years now, and I had the beautiful piece of gadgetry for almost three years before I got the iPad 2 I’m typing on right this very second.
It was time.
Her new Apple technology looks sweet.
I had to go out with her to buy a new protective case.
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Of course, I took to wandering in the store and thinking.
Too much.
Bigger, better?
The 12.9-inch iPad Pro caught my attention. I have had this iPad Air 2 for almost two years now. I do use it every day to write this blog and more. I don’t own a laptop anymore. The Logitech Bluetooth keyboard stand broke again on top. They gave Karen pretty good trade-in value on her iPad Air 1 …
Yeah, I’m really thinking too much.
How do you like Karen’s new iPad and case? Should I get another new keyboard for my iPad 2 or go for the iPad Pro? Or should a MacBook enter the equation?
Mark Bialczak 
I have an Amazon Kindle HDX and really like it but never use it for anything but reading books. Most of my work is done on my three HP PCs, which I really love, with their huge screens. Geoffrey has one of those dual laptops where the screen comes off and becomes a pad. Neither of us has bough Macs for years, except our iPods. So, I am not sure what the advantages are of one or another iPad. I think we are all headed for larger and smarter phones, and so I will wait for that day. But, I do think it is fun to get new toys. So congrats. And, if I were you, I would get a brand new device and upgrade. That’s my two centavos.
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I am looking forward to the new phones, Beth. And am leaning to the new iPad as well. Yikes! Your two centavos are always welcome here. I need all the centavos I can get. 🙂
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it is very hard to resist )
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I have resisted yet one more day, Beth. 😉
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Owlie looks like me.
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You are too much, LR. 😉
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I’m cute!!!!!
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You’re a beauty, for sure. 🙂
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Thank you DL!
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You know it, lR. ❤
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Wow, Karen’s ipad and case looks cool. I don’t own an ipad. I’m still using the old Macbook I bought 6 years ago but I really like the 13″ Macbook pro. I think Macbook would be great for you…you can call it MarkBook!
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You are the Meow, NBC. MarkBook indeed! It would have my PawPrint all over it. 🙂
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I am an Android guy but buying a new iPad would be something of an investment. Check out some of the Samsung offerings, they are pretty cool.
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I am anti-PC because of past experiences, Tony. Maybe they are better these days, though.
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I got all excited awhile back and let Sprint talk me into the free i-pad when I bought a new phone. I thought it would be great to carry around since I don’t have a smart phone and thus would have access to internet (mostly so I could check my own blog, of course). The excitement wore off within a month, the i-pad went into a drawer and hasn’t been used since. It does come in handy for traveling, however – or for those times when I really want to see what one my posts looks like on a device other than my PC. That’s just me, though – I’m sure Karen will enjoy, and use, hers.
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Karen uses hers every day, yes, CM. You just didn’t develop the routine. It’s all habit! Our Microsoft laptop stunk, so we used our iPads instead. The routine stuck. 🙂
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Ah, that’s probably it – I’ve never had a laptop, I’ve always used the desktop PC for everything.
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I think that’s it, CM.
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New Tech is so pretty. I often hang on until it is no longer usable. I know a lot of folks (including my Mum) who swear by Mac Books.
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My daughter loves her MacBook, too, Paul. But I hang on to my tech stuff a long time, too, just like you. 🙂
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I don’t use my tablet half as much as I thought I would. I may have to dig it back out soon 🙂
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Blow off that layer of dust, and maybe you’ll like it more this time, J. 😮
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It’s all too tempting 🙂 Just got myself an iPad Air 2 after having a mini for the last few years.
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Congrats on the iPad Air 2, Cathy. I like mine, and almost wish I hadn’t seen that darn big screen on the new Pro line.
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