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SO OVER THE WEEKEND, I cracked and got an iPad2 ? buying the nursing-home machine whetted my appeti?

By Glenn Reynolds

SO OVER THE WEEKEND, I cracked and got an iPad2 — buying the nursing-home machine whetted my appetite. One thing that I’ve been impressed with is how good the PJTV videos look on it. (The PJTV site has been made more iPad friendly, and they’ve also addressed a buffering problem that used to make videos stutter sometimes.) I think the iPad/iPod model for video delivery is likely to be a good one.

The nursing-home deployment, meanwhile, has gone well, as many readers predicted. The iPad is more a media-consumption than media-production tool, but that’s fine in this application. You can blog from one — I did, last night (it works better using the Terra browser than the Safari browser, which is odd) — but that’s not really its strong suit.

UPDATE: Reader Andy Halushka wants specs: It’s a 64MB wifi model. I thought about 3G, but since I have the hotspot feature on my iPhone, I figured I didn’t really need it. Also, this was the last one they had!

And reader Derek Bottcher writes: “Getting my hands on an iPad 2 where I live (Arlington, Virginia) has been frustratingly difficult. How were you able to get one? The Apple store or another retailer? I waited in front of our local Apple store three mornings before it opened last week and came away empty-handed each time.” I hit the Apple Store at noon on Sunday and snagged the last one.

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on March 21, 2011 (boomark / email).