Indeed it is a great device. In terms of hardware, no doubt it is an upgrade from the iPad first generation. It is thinner, lighter, more powerful with a dual-core A5 chip, it has two cameras one front and back and the new magnetic smart cover. The only weakness that can be identified at this moment, as in the iPad1, is the little amount of RAM available. Have you ever tried editing a RAW file? Both iPads will fail miserable. Why do you think Apple has made a big deal of iMovie while real working pro-photographic apps are not even mentioned? Because both iPads aren't powerful enough. iMovie and GarageBand are both wonderful apps but the average consumer weekend user. Do you think, it is possible to get a high quality video or for that matter a high quality photograph from the iPad's cameras? Of course not. Moreover, the lack of USB interconnectivity and RAM means that it is impossible to upload quality files to the iPad. Then there is the issue of using the iPad to record video and taking pictures; imagine yourself holding the IPad making a video; get the picture?
In my opinion, however, the iPads 1 and 2 could be more useful if only Apple would implement the following features: multitasking, OCR, Flash, a professional email client, a user file-system, USB connectivity, notifications, and widgets.
More on the iPad later. Written with iPad.
