I so wish this forum had a ignore feature. Some people here will always be against me.

How about you PM The Monk and Moshi and remind them of our talk.

Anyhooo.

I very much like the iPad Air.  I have lots of other tablets as well and the Air is my favorite thus far.  I also have a Kindle Fire HDX (the one that just started shipping yesterday) on order so I'll let you know how they compare.

What is surprising for me is just how much lighter the Air is than previous iPads.  I do a lot of my surfing in the evening in my comfy chair and I can tell you the weight difference is noticeable.

Case or no case?

From what I've read, the Air weighs about 1 pound.  Case w/keyboard roughly same. 

You really want to make something out of nothing don't you.   Talk shit in threads and you'll be called out on it..........guess you're ignoring that!

I have a first-gen iPad myself and I for one actually like the weight of the device.  It is the aging hardware and the fact that it can't run newer versions of iOS or certain apps that makes me ready to switch.

My main reason for waiting for the Nokia tablet is the fact that I'm hoping for a similar design/form factor to the Lumia and if that's the case I will certainly be happy.  I don't know what the whole 'weight' concern is about, personally I like my phones, tablets etc. to have some heft.  Plus seeing the constantly increasing Nokia-exclusive apps in the store makes me that much more likely to stick with Nokia hardware.  In my opinion their app exclusives alone make them worthy competition.

No case.

I think I'm going to try to find a sleek case when I get the air then.  Maybe I'll swing by the apple store in advance to get the feel for it.  Honestly, apple "advances" have been both jack and shit in recent years.  Good news - lightweight computer is now more light.  Did it break any of our arms or really wreck or inconvenience us before?  Nope.  There's no true selling point for me in the new features.  That said, I very much dislike the disk space I have on my current ipad.  A new model coming out means I can solve that problem and get slightly improved hardware.  Works for me. 

imo, apple has gone to absolute shit for innovation and improvement.  I love their products and would not consider upgrading to solve my minor "ain't got enough disk space" problem unless a new version came out.  That said, it's absolutely wasteful that I can't just upgrade my HD and that be the end of it.  I would, in a heartbeat, ignore this new ipad if I could simply increase disk space like I could on devices 15 years ago. 

So, I'll very likely end up with this new ipad and solve my problem.  Maybe they will add a finger print scanner to the ipad... at long last, our demands have been answered.  They make products for people like me that don't terribly mind shelling out some hard earned dough to sort a few of their problems.  I'm just glad they don't actually make "apple tvs."  Imagine folks deciding to buy a new TV every year...

Oh good!

You know, the_Monk...the newer ones have cameras...do send a selfie.

  right.......so you can 'shop' me into a pic doing something totally ridiculous.   hehe 

Yeah...like writing up those security recommendations. ooooh...that was below the belt, eh? Mwahahahaha.

@ Doc 

  you made my day.......thanks!

Absolutely.  I like my devices to not feel fragile and if that means some extra 'heft' well so be it.