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Final reminder - Apple 'iPad 2' event March 2nd

By | March 2, 2011, 5:20am PST

Summary: Final reminder for Apple’s media event on March 2nd - iPad 2 is coming! Get news and analysis as it happens by tuning in to the Hardware 2.0 live coverage event.

FINAL REMINDER!

Apple is holding a media event on March 2nd, and it’s about the iPad 2 for sure. Get news and analysis as it happens by tuning in to the Hardware 2.0 live coverage event.

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Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes is an internationally published technology author who has devoted over a decade to helping users get the most from technology -- whether that be by learning to program, building a PC from a pile of parts, or helping them get the most from their new MP3 player or digital camera.

Adrian has authored/co-authored technical books on a variety of topics, ranging from programming to building and maintaining PCs. His most recent books include "Build the Ultimate Custom PC", "Beginning Programming" and "The PC Doctor's Fix It Yourself Guide". He has also written training manuals that have been used by a number of Fortune 500 companies.

Adrian also runs a popular blog under the name The PC Doctor, where he covers a range of computer-related topics -- from security to repairing and upgrading.

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RE: Final reminder - Apple 'iPad 2' event March 2nd
jorjitop 2nd Mar 2011
@Loverock Davidson

Nothing is as boring as your stupid comments.
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RE: Final reminder - Apple 'iPad 2' event March 2nd
Loverock Davidson 2nd Mar 2011
Its going to be just as boring as last year's announcement. They made another tablet that nobody wants. The live coverage will be just you and the other zdnet bloggers arguing the merits of the tablet.
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RE: Final reminder - Apple 'iPad 2' event March 2nd
butaneko 2nd Mar 2011
@Loverock Davidson Which is why they've sold what, 15 million of them? You either enjoy trolling or you live in a fantasy world.
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RE: Final reminder - Apple 'iPad 2' event March 2nd
Loverock Davidson 2nd Mar 2011
@butaneko
Or I realize that tablets are not the way to go and if it didn't have an Apple logo on it no one would be buying it. Its just a branding thats selling, that is all.
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RE: Final reminder - Apple 'iPad 2' event March 2nd
ssekdad 2nd Mar 2011
@butaneko
Everyone needs to stop responding to @Loverock Davidson's posts. Everyone knows he is a troll but the back and forth replies just fill up this blog and waste everyone's time. If we stop acknowledging his posts maybe he will eventually go back to his hole and die quietly.
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RE: Final reminder - Apple 'iPad 2' event March 2nd
Rogueknight2011 2nd Mar 2011
@Loverock Davidson

tablet no one wants??? 15 million sold in 1 year. Several people holding off for ipad 2 that dont have ipad (myself included). any idea how many people have been speculating about the device? A lot of people not interested in the device? I'm going to take a wild stab in the dark and say you weren't a business major.

I don't mind the comment about it being boring, if your not interested then yeah it would be boring to you and thats your opinion and I don't mind people sharing their opinion (hell I am still ticked over the "big" Beatles on Itunes announcement). But the rest of what you said which you state as fact and not in an opinionated form it just idiotic and completely false. Would so many manufacturers the world over be trying to make tablets if nobody wanted them? Plus the fact tablets have been around for many years, Apple finally got it right with the ipad (granted I wish it had DVD slot but thats me).
So keep sharing your opinions but keep the lies to yourself. For all we know you work for apple competitors trying to steal the limelight away, but then for all you know I work for apple (I don't, but it could have been true).
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RE: Final reminder - Apple 'iPad 2' event March 2nd
Rick_K 2nd Mar 2011
@Rogueknight2011
Plus the fact tablets have been around for many years, Apple finally got it right with the ipad (granted I wish it had DVD slot but thats me).

You do realize that you can import DVDs through iTunes and transfer them to the iPad? The iPad would not have the great battery life, if Apple stuck things like a DVD drive in it. So it was a design compromise. I put a few movies on my iPod Touch, while it is not optimal for watching a movie on, in a pinch (like waiting at the registry) it?s not a bad way to distract yourself.
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RE: Final reminder - Apple 'iPad 2' event March 2nd
Loverock Davidson 2nd Mar 2011
@Rogueknight2011
Tablets are not selling as well as people thought. 15 million? Thats about the same as Apple users, so only Apple people bought them. I have no idea why the others are making tablets, I can only guess its to try to grab some money from that 15 million before the fad goes away. Its not the smartest business move.
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RE: Final reminder - Apple 'iPad 2' event March 2nd
aviatorjohnson 2nd Mar 2011
@Loverock Davidson "Another tablet that nobody wants"?? What? Are you serious? Look at how many iPads have sold in the past year. Do you even live on planet Earth!
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RE: Final reminder - Apple 'iPad 2' event March 2nd
Loverock Davidson 2nd Mar 2011
@aviatorjohnson
Yes I am serious, tablets are not doing as well as people thought.
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RE: Final reminder - Apple 'iPad 2' event March 2nd
Voltus 2nd Mar 2011
@Loverock Davidson You don't think iPad is a tablet that can cure you from sickness don't you ? That called MEDICINE !!! Some medicine have apple logo, but that's mean it's have apple flavor.
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RE: Final reminder - Apple 'iPad 2' event March 2nd
johnsuarez10 2nd Mar 2011
@Loverock Davidson What? Hey guys....it's Charlie Sheen. Delusional
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RE: Final reminder - Apple 'iPad 2' event March 2nd
Loverock Davidson 2nd Mar 2011
@johnsuarez10
I wish, getting paid big bucks, partying every night, alcohol... say what you will but he's living the good life.
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RE: Final reminder - Apple 'iPad 2' event March 2nd
TimmyB Updated - 2nd Mar 2011
@ loverock davidson: I really try to stay away from the bickering and listen to what others have to say. With that in mind, if you think that partying every night, alcohol, drugs, failed marriages, having your kids taken away, rehab, more rehab, etc., is the "good life", you just lost ALL of your credibility with any rational people.
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Just helping out
Robert Hahn 2nd Mar 2011
@Loverock Davidson I am posting this solely to assist Loverock Davidson in pushing all intelligent commentary off the first page of user comments. Without his trolls engendering dozens of replies, other stuff might get read, and we can't have that.
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RE: Final reminder - Apple 'iPad 2' event March 2nd
chadpengar 2nd Mar 2011
@Loverock Davidson

I have an iPad. I use it daily. I know lots of people that do. It has nothing to do with an Apple logo on it and everything to do with being a great device. Very useful and handy. My MacBook rarely gets used anymore now that I have the iPad.
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RE: Final reminder - Apple 'iPad 2' event March 2nd
Loverock Davidson 2nd Mar 2011
@chadpengar
It has nothing to do with an Apple logo on it
My MacBook

That kinda says it all
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RE: Final reminder - Apple 'iPad 2' event March 2nd
camcost@... 2nd Mar 2011
@Loverock Davidson
testing, one, two, three, four
Could someone bring a reality check this way.
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RE: Final reminder - Apple 'iPad 2' event March 2nd
Loverock Davidson 2nd Mar 2011
@camcost@...
Snap back to reality, Oh there goes gravity
Oh, there goes rabbit, he choked
He's so mad, but he won't give up that easy
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RE: Final reminder - Apple 'iPad 2' event March 2nd
Loverock Davidson 2nd Mar 2011
And it looks like I was right. That seems to happen to me quite often.
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RE: Final reminder - Apple 'iPad 2' event March 2nd
Graham Ellison 2nd Mar 2011
@Loverock Davidson

Around 80% of Fortune 100 companies have deployed iPads for their employees.

Apple have sold almost 15 million iPads in just nine months. No-one has ever had a product get off to such fast start.

In that time, over 100 million books downloaded from iBooks. Apple have just added Random House with 17,000 books. There are now over 2,500 publishers in the iBookstore.

People have created 200 million iTunes Store accounts.

Over 65,000 iPad apps are now available.

These are what we grown ups call FACTS.

Some people want to let you off by calling you a troll. I've come to the conclusion that you're either really stupid or genuinely retarded, in either case you deserve our sympathy.
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RE: Final reminder - Apple 'iPad 2' event March 2nd
jorjitop 2nd Mar 2011
@Loverock Davidson

Nothing is as boring as your stupid comments.
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How many hours for it to start?
zoi555 2nd Mar 2011
I can't wait, and Leverock if it was a tablet that nobody wants Apple wouldn't have sold millions. I think that it's not suitable for people who do not have middle class buying power
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RE: Final reminder - Apple 'iPad 2' event March 2nd
Loverock Davidson 2nd Mar 2011
@zoi555
It only sold because it had Apple's name on it and everyone knows Apple fans will buy anything they produce.
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RE: Final reminder - Apple 'iPad 2' event March 2nd
zoi555 2nd Mar 2011
@Loverock Davidson Ofcourse they'll buy anything Apple produces because anything Apple produces will be of a certain quality and standard and will also have an unmatchable user experience some thing most people want from technology.
It's the product that is helping the branding not the branding helping the product in Apple's case
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Has the event started?
zoi555 2nd Mar 2011
@zoi555 Has the event started?
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RE: Final reminder - Apple 'iPad 2' event March 2nd
Aerowind Updated - 2nd Mar 2011
@zoi555 It starts at 10:00 AM PST, that is, in 2 hours and 45 minutes.
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RE: Final reminder - Apple 'iPad 2' event March 2nd
Rick_K 2nd Mar 2011
@zoi555
Lovierock does have a point, Kind of like the Windows fanboys that ran out and bought Windows phone 7 phones, only because they have the word Windows in the name.
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RE: Final reminder - Apple 'iPad 2' event March 2nd
Hasam1991 2nd Mar 2011
@Loverock Davidson
It just works, try it... very nice when your in bedroom and want to browse ZDNET, no need for a bulky laptop, it's nice!! better than a netbook that's for sure..
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RE: Final reminder - Apple 'iPad 2' event March 2nd
Carlo A. Mason 2nd Mar 2011
@Loverock Davidson
If that is what is called the good life, then I do not want any of it. I don't need to prostitute myself to the media and Hollywood and the TV industry to live the good life. The family I have ensures that.

That said, if you think the event is going to be boring, that is your opinion, and you are fully entitled to it. To say, however, that the iPad is only selling because of the Apple logo on it is to suggest that people don't have anything good to do with their money. I submit that that is a condescending tone you have adopted to the global consumer. The present global recession only highlights the mass appeal of the product, the fact that it is well made, and clearly, from the sheer numbers and minimal complaint, great user experience, seems to shout SUCCESS.

If you don't want an iPad, 1st gen or whatever, don't buy one, and don't follow the news on it. Better yet, don't comment on it, then you won't draw the comments of ridicule and derision from your peers.
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Loverock Davidson
appleheart 2nd Mar 2011
Hahaha!

This Loverocker guy/girl is yanking you guys' chains and you are falling for it! He is probably writing his remarks on an iPad! What else is he doing here!? He is also waiting to get his dirty little hands on one!
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RE: Final reminder - Apple 'iPad 2' event March 2nd
Aerowind Updated - 2nd Mar 2011
@appleheart New here? Loverock is a known hater of all slates.

Edited: Sorry Loverock, all of you ZDNet people just bleed together with what you hate.
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RE: Final reminder - Apple 'iPad 2' event March 2nd
Loverock Davidson 2nd Mar 2011
@Aerowind
Not true, I don't hate Apple.
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RE: Final reminder - Apple 'iPad 2' event March 2nd
Aerowind 2nd Mar 2011
@Loverock Davidson My mistake. You are a known slate hater though.
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RE: Final reminder - Apple 'iPad 2' event March 2nd
Loverock Davidson 2nd Mar 2011
@Aerowind
That I am.
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Original iPad is okay with me
Mattheus Paulus 2nd Mar 2011
I have actually been waiting for iPad2 to release so that I can get a better deal on original iPad on overstock or "gently used". I have certainly tried other tablets, but I believe that Apple has done very well with its interface, which really does simply get out of the way and let the user use apps.

I admit that the whole AppStore DRM heavy-handed lock-down is a pain. However, Apple has to control for quality in order to protect its investment. There are two sides to EVERY story.
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RE: Final reminder - Apple 'iPad 2' event March 2nd
Hasam1991 2nd Mar 2011
@Mattheus Paulus
Never had issues with DRM... songs don't have any DRM and I never get their movies from them etc..
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RE: Final reminder - Apple 'iPad 2' event March 2nd
Bookmark71 2nd Mar 2011
I'm hoping they also announce an iMac refresh. I've never owned an Apple computer before and I need to replace my 6 year old PC. Supposedly it's due based on the historical pattern of updates.
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RE: Final reminder - Apple 'iPad 2' event March 2nd
Hasam1991 2nd Mar 2011
@Bookmark71
Same here I'm finally ready to go MAC and dump windows 7... all the software I use is on MAC. Hopefully sometime soon I can replace my Windows Home Server with MAC OS X server!!
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You're gonna love it!
gmlaster 2nd Mar 2011
I just dumped my HP for a MacBook Pro running Windows 7 in VMWare and I have never regretted it for a single second. I've got a Mac I love that runs all the Windows software I've invested in over the years, so I've got the best of both. Frankly, I've never had a single crash in Windows 7 on the Mac. It runs better and faster on Mac than it ever did on my HP. Plus it pairs seamlessly with my iPad and iPod, no matter which OS I'm pairing with.

It's pricey, I'll admit. But like my Beemer, once you take it out on the highway you WILL know why you spent the extra money.
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RE: Final reminder - Apple 'iPad 2' event March 2nd
zoi555 2nd Mar 2011
I moved from Windows about a year ago and have never looked back. You can get nearly everything you have on Windows on Mac, if you can't then its probably a cheap product. 'Macs make your life easier'
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daveincrete Updated - 2nd Mar 2011
I have withdrawn this comment as I based it upon information which turned out to be incorrect
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RE: Final reminder - Apple 'iPad 2' event March 2nd
TimmyB 2nd Mar 2011
Also, check out the USA Today and read the Fortune 500 companies that are purchasing boatloads of these to do their work, from salesforces to medical technology. Just so you know I am not a fanboy, I don't own a tablet of ANY kind yet. When I do, my hopes are with HP and the webOS-based toucHPad.
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RE: Final reminder - Apple 'iPad 2' event March 2nd
Rick_K 2nd Mar 2011
So now that the new iPad is out, it?s time to start speculating on the next iPhone.
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@chadpengar
catleya 2nd Mar 2011
I haven't gotten an iPad so far because, well, no Flash, and out of the office my Macbook Pro is king, but if the iPad is so much better, I may think about it. Can you tell me why it's been an effective replacement for your Macbook (in detail, please)?

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