My wife loves hers. If you like having a personal organizer, reading, surfing the internet, watching movies, answering emails, then the ipad is a good unit. Wanna save something or install external software ( you can download apps) forget it. I had a tough time trying to print wirelessly from it and ended up emailing myself the document to my desktop. My wife uses it mostly to read. She is a full on convert from paperback and has no plans on going back. I may even renew my mag subscriptions to digital. its like a huge ipod touch. She has the ipad 1. So I have no idea how good the ipad 2 is. We picked ours up used on craigslist with an applecare warranty still good to september. We paid $460.00 for the 16 gig wifi. (too much). I found another a week later for $300.00 oh well.