iPad ad 4 is pretty much as sweet as it gets. I like the 3 a little better for viewing photos and videos but the 4 beats it on all other fronts.

I have an Amazon Associate account too, and there are all kinds of rules about when you get credit and when not, and I may not have done it right to give DIF credit, but I can't see a reason why they would accuse you of using it yourself.

But let's not derail the discussion here. I'm losing my virginity.

I've heard the mini is actually more convenient, and I might actually buy one of those too because I'm thinking of getting an iPad for my mother anyway.

I plan to use the iPad for entertainment when I fly, which is very frequently, and for showing off photos that I just took with my camera at family gatherings. I'm constantly taking pictures and then having to pass the camera around, so I'd rather swap SD cards and keep shooting while the subjects are looking at the photos on the tablet. Ideally, there would be some wireless card thing that automatically transfers the photos as I take them.

And maybe doing lines of cocaine. Also, is it any good as a bludgeoning weapon?

I'll throw my 2 cents in and say the the screen on the full size iPad is leaps and bounds beyond the screen in the Mini. 

I also use an Eye-Fi card, and it's amazing.  Even more amazing for me, in that I use it in an all-Mac ecosystem, so when I snap a picture it automatically goes to my phone, and then into the cloud where it's snatched by the desktop back home.  Pretty swanky.

- Branco

Oh yeah, baby. Now you're talking my corporate parseltongue.