After a lot of soul searching, procrastinating and wondering if I could justify the expense I finally made the decision to buy an ipad. Once I had made that decision, little did I know that that wasn’t the end to my dilema! Should I go for a 16Gb, 32Gb or the daddy of them all a 64Gb. Oh and did I forget to add that you then have a choice of wi-fi or 3g?!!!!

With my decision made I made the trip to the local apple store and within 10 minutes I was on my way back to work with a 64Gb 3g in my hand! I’ve noticed I’m using the net and apps more than I use my iphone for calls and decided to give the new iphone 4 a miss and get the top ipad model!

The ipad is a thing of beauty and although a little over a week old I can’t put it down! It does everything I want and mode, looks absolutely stunning and the operating system is super fast making browsing a dream and video’s a delight. I’ve downloaded over 50 books and they happily sit on the ibooks bookcase and Amazon’s Kindle offering.

Without doubt, ebooks is the way forward, only thing I want now is for the publishers to lower the price for these books and make them a realistic and competitive option to the real thing.

My new leather case arrived today and it really completes the look. Classy. Not tempted by the new iphone yet despite seeing it in the flesh at work yesterday – thanks @maxrunning

Only time will tell if I fall into temptation!! More thoughts on the ipad later but for now, here’s a couple of pics of the new leather case and the ipad!