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Your mentioning of the iPad strikes me as peculiar, as it hasn't had any significant widespread problems and has been out for months now; in fact I was struck l
by glhaynes 16y ago
Your mentioning of the iPad strikes me as peculiar, as it hasn't had any significant widespread problems and has been out for months now; in fact I was struck last night when I realized that there hasn't even been an update of any kind to the OS yet, though there's not clamor for it either. "Never buy rev 1" might be a decent rule of thumb, but it shouldn't be made more than that, and at this point it seems like we can draw some very good conclusions about the reliability of iPad 1.0s, whereas iPad 1.1 or 2.0 could be riddled with problems.
- nooneelse 16y agoI thought there was some issue early on with using the iPad on some wifi routers... ah, yeah, there is some reason to think that memory was accurate http://www.google.com/#q=ipad+wifi+problems http://www.google.com/#q=ipad+wifi+problems . Or was that issue pretty rare and overblown?
- illumin8 16y agoPretty rare and overblown. The issues only affected some campus wifi networks with short DHCP leases. iPad has some unique features that allow it to receive push emails and notifications even while it is in sleep mode, by keeping the wifi connection active. Apparently it isn't yet smart enough to renew it's DHCP lease while in this sleep mode, so it was staying on a leased IP after the expiration time. You were probably only affected if you were using an iPad on specific University campuses, and I see no reason why the network admins couldn't work around it by giving out longer DHCP leases to iPad specific hardware, at least, until an official fix was issued. The iPad has overall been surprisingly bug free for a 1.0 product.