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Originally Posted by chris9991
Why spend money on the 4th generation iPad - the 5th one will be here soon...
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Personally, I buy tech when I believe it will help me perform some necessary task or make my life easier in some way. The fact that today's latest model is tomorrow's eBay stock clearance is neither here nor there. If I happened to be looking for a replacement for my iPad1 in the next 6 months, I'd buy an iPad4 without hesitation.
As it happens, the iPad1 is still going strong and doing everything I need it to*, so I'm not upgrading for the forseeable. Mrs T. is drooling all over the iPad mini though, as she would really quite like an ebook reader but we can't quite bring ourselves to go down the Kindle route seeing as everything else in the house is Apple and all slots together rather nicely.
*And something the current iPad does not do, namely offer a built-in mapping application that's fit for purpose. The iPad1 will not update its OS beyond version 5 and is therefore 'stuck' with Google Maps.