Spring hardware refresh

I hope so. I'm online-chatting with Apple Support right now to see if my iPad Air 2 is dead. I might be buying ASAP.

 

http://daringfireball.net/2017/03/about_that_10_point_5_inch_ipad
John Gruber of Daring Fireball speculates that there could be new iPads this Spring (like, announced next week). And then a major update this Fall with the iPhones. Which, to me, is the iPad 3 -> iPad 4 scenario.

 

I thought the rumors were for next week. They are for today. So we'll see if there are any updates this afternoon.

 

It was an odd number of announcements this morning. But I'm betting on a proper iPad Pro update announcement in the coming weeks.

 

Very likely on Friday I'm ordering the $329 32GB iPad to replace my failing 64GB iPad Air 2.

Dollars to doughnuts there are new iPad Pro models announced this Fall with the iPhones.

The $2500 question is where are the new iMacs? Do they come out this summer with WWDC? Or does Apple punt another year on their desktop line?

 

My iPad Air 2 is dead. A young three years. I think a damaged lightning cable damaged its charging circuitry.

I'm ordering a new "iPad" on Friday. The step down from 64GB to 32GB will take some adjustment but I hope to be ok with a little effort. At this point, I don't want to spend an extra $100 to jump to 128GB for an unplanned and modest iPad upgrade

 

Yes, but I believe that argument netted you 10,000 Trophy Points!

Listening to this week's MacBreak Weekly, Rene Ritchie of iMore.com is insistent that we're going to see iMac upgrades this Spring. Their assertion is we'll get a quiet upgrade, like with yesterday's iPad, in a week or two. I hope they're right. I can wait until Fall. But my 2009 iMac is getting tired.

 

The Yodeling Cowboy strikes again!

 

Well nerds. iPad doesn't go on sale until 8:01am PDT. Doesn't do me any good trying to order before work on EDT. Maybe my wife will be able to get an order in later this morning. Hoping for early arrival next week. I'm struggling in my iPad-less life!