Am posting this here in hopes my PLN can convince me one way or the other…and am cross posting on our Connected Principals site as well.

Techie Teamann, technically yours, yadda yadda yadda…techie toys make me happy. I love my macbook…I love my iphone…my ipods…my itouches…sigh.

Now we have this iPad…toy. A toy I don’t have…for a myriad of reasons. I’m going to go through my pros and cons and I truly want to hear what you think. As in comment. Vote. Tell me (and er, MT) what ya think…

Do you see my dilemma? Is there a dilemma? It all boils down to the very simple fact that I WANT it. I hate that I think I might be grownup enough to resist it.

iPad puzzled,

Amber

Pros (go buy it!!)	Cons (No! No! Resist!)
seriously? It’s cool.	It’s expensive! For the smallest (which is plenty big) without 3G, I’d be out $500. For the 3G version, $629. That’s a lot of allowance!
It’s so portable.	I have an i{Phone, an iTouch, and a Macbook. What more can I fit in a travel bag or trendy purse?
It’d fit in my purse!	As does my phone. And my iTouch. Depending on the bag, so does my Macbook.
It’s the newest and the coolest.	Really Amber? Did you just write that? (sigh.)
All your friends have one.	No, they don’t. They may have a work one, but really? They don’t HAVE HAVE one. As in they decided it was worth the $$$.
I can use it in the car! And its a bigger screen than my phone! (oooohh ahhhhh)	Only if you pay more. AND YOUR PHONE WORKS IN THE CAR TOO!
	The sheer annoyance of having to pay a seperate data package annoys me.
	If I just get the cheap one (cough cough) it’ll only work where there is wifi. Which I might add, is also where YOUR MACBOOK ALSO WILL WORK

 

appleY,

Amber