It doesn't sound like a complaint so much as an elegy. I still regularly use an original iPad nearly every day. It can't update past iOS 5, and it's been point

It doesn't sound like a complaint so much as an elegy. I still regularly use an original iPad nearly every day. It can't update past iOS 5, and it's been pointless to try to install new software on it for years. At this point, it's mostly a Kindle and PDF reader that is still much more usable than our Kindle Fire. That's no complaint! It's sad because these were great machines that are just becoming obsolete. Its the upside of such attention to hardware quality: they become obsolete before they break, instead of the reverse. I use an early-2011 Macbook Pro too, which is far more battle-scarred (the battery swelled and cracked the touchpad before I replaced it, and I lost a few screws when installing an SSD), but it still feels like a great everyday machine.