BEHOLD! The New iPad.

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On March 16th, Apple’s newest iPad – dubbed “the new iPad” – was released into the hands of hungry techno-geeks. I was one of the Apple fan-boys who needed to order one immediately following the Apple iPad keynote on March 7th.

I spent a couple of hours constantly refreshing Apple’s website seeing if I could access the order page since their server was overloaded. Finally I was able to buy one! A 16GB, black, Wi-Fi only model. It was scheduled to arrive at my doorsteps Friday, March 16th.

Fast forward a long, painful week and two days later and it’s “iPad Day” (yay)! Unfortunately I had school – which meant I could have missed the FedEx guy, but I was able to have my neighbor sign for it. Once I got home I slowly cut the tape off the box and slid out the minimal, white iPad box.

The New iPad. In its box.

The New iPad. In its box.

It was so beautiful I wanted to lick it… Err ummm, maybe not that beautiful.

Anyways, I cut the plastic shrink wrap off of that and took off the cover.

The New iPadBEHOLD! The new iPad! Wait… It looks the same as the iPad 2. But, what’s different is on the inside – like the iPhone 4S compared to the iPhone 4.

“Ugh, come on Connor. Get on with it.” Okay, random reader, I will! Alright so I took it out of the box, slowly, and took off the wrapping. Then I pressed the power button (really? You press the power button to turn it on?) and the Apple logo popped up. It’d be kinda neat if it made the Mac bonggggggg sound when it booted up.

Once it turned on, I went through the on-screen instructions.

'iPad' is what you first see.

'iPad' is what you first see.

The New iPad is welcoming.

iCloud on the new iPad.

iCloud on the new iPad.

Of course I want iCloud, it’s coolio!

I can finally use my new iPad!

I can finally use my new iPad!

I decided to start fresh and clean (as oppose to using an iPad backup). It makes it feel like a fresh start :)

When the home screen appeared, I took a few more pictures. Snap! Snap!

The new iPad's retina display.

The new iPad's retina display. Up close.

The new iPad.

The new iPad.

Then I adjusted my settings and downloaded some apps. I noticed quite a few apps have already added support for the new iPad (in terms of the retina display). Those that weren’t updated yet actually looked fine – still usable and not very distracting.

As of writing this unboxing/review/sarcastic post I have only used it for about a couple hours. So I don’t want to say too much regarding performance and such.

What I will say is the retina display is amazing! I’m sure if you compare it to the iPad 1/2 screen, it will blow it out of the water. It’s kinda amazing to think it has more pixels than a 1080p television.

So that about does it for my new iPad blog post. If you have any questions about the new iPad, feel free to leave a comment or ask on Twitter (@ConnorCrosby). Thanks for stopping by!

Hello World!

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Hello there! My name is Connor Crosby. What’s that? You already knew that because of the domain URL and blog name? Geez! I was just trying to be friendly. Can I continue? Alright, so welcome to my personal blog. This is where I post my opinions (as if they matter), thoughts, any technology things I like, what’s going on in my life, and so on.

It’s also a place where you can waste time. For example, take a look at this blog post. Not very informative. You could have lived without reading this. But instead you waste your time continuing reading this. Actually, I am just hoping you would have left by now or looked at another article.

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“Woah! What was that???” That, my friend, is called Loren Ipsum. It’s dummy text used by designers to take up space and so viewers focus on the design of something. It has been used since the 16th century (at least I think).

So that’s it for my first blog post. Yeah I know that’s an abrupt ending but I figured not many have made it to the bottom of this post, so it doesn’t matter much. See ya soon!