Tablet: Ipad 4 or anything else?

[derspiess]

It's almost scary how easily my 2 year old can use the iPad.

Lately he's been playing with a jigsaw puzzle app.  He can put together a 20-30 piece virtual puzzle like nobody's business.

Lola started commandeering my wife's iPad several months ago.  It is pretty fascinating to observe-- the interface is so simple/intuitive that kids of any age can use it on a basic level as soon as they have some motor skills developed.  I can tell her to pull up her "Toy Phone" app and she scrolls right to it and starts it up.  She's even figured out how to do some navigation in Youtube (she loves Sesame Street and those Super Simple Song videos), which is a little scary.

If it were up to me I'd have kept it away from her-- she doesn't even turn 2 until April.  Wife gets 100% of the blame, and I always have to point that out to people because it's assumed that I'm the guilty one given my near-addiction to gadgets.  Funny thing is she knows not to touch my lowly Kindle Fire because I always tell her no.  Ditto for my phone since I have it locked by PIN.

[Liep]

Is iPad4 the one with retina display? I'm thinking of putting in an order for a 16gb no-3g as I've a friend going to new york next week and they are like half the price over there.

[derspiess]

Is iPad4 the one with retina display? I'm thinking of putting in an order for a 16gb no-3g as I've a friend going to new york next week and they are like half the price over there.

Yes.  I believe the 3rd generation iPad had it as well.

[CountDeMoney]

I don't know what you guys are using for cases, but I just received a bad-ass one from www.padandquill.com

I wanted a milspec one and I was looking at Ballistic, like I have for my iHipster, but I read reviews that the screen cover played optic games with the retina screen, and I wasn't too thrilled with Ottorbox's milspec one (too plasticky) or Griffin's Survivor (too flimsy-feeling), but then I figured, I'm not wearing this thing on my hip, so what the hell, get a nice faux folio for it.

I picked up P&Q's Octavo case;  this thing has a good weight to it, with a wooden frame and rubber corner clamps that keep it totally snug;  this thing isn't moving.  Very happy with it.

What do you guys use?

[Ed Anger]

Something from Acase. Saved my ass twice in a year.