Updated the iPad to iOS 5 on Thursday night. There have been a number of horror stories about people having all sorts of difficulties, so I was a little bit apprehensive. However, I needn't have been as it all went without a hitch.
It took quite a while, mind you. However, I just let the iPad and the PC to get on with it. The upgrading seemed to involve downloading the new software, backing up the iPad, removing all the old stuff from the iPad, installing iOS 5, then re-installing all the apps and then putting all the music and other files back on. Though not necessarily in that order. So it's not surprising that it took well over an hour.
I am sure that there are lots of tweaks and changes that I haven't noticed, but for me the standout items so far are:
- iCloud. Love the automatic backup facility. Don't have to worry backing up at all now.
- Reminders. Fantastic little addition. Loved the way it automatically added my To Do stuff from Outlook.
- Tabbed browsing in Safari.
As for the down sides - well, I can't say that I've found any yet. If I was being really picky, I would say that I preferred the earlier Music interface, but that's about it.
We’ve got a number of Apple products in the house, and we’ve all been impressed with them. It'll be another year or so before we'll be looking for a new computer, but when we do an Apple machine will be definitely be on the list of possibles, despite the high prices.
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