Whoosh. Oh, yes, and the cameras and the Smart Cover and the gyroscope. I duly tested and wrote about all of that stuff. After I filed my review and I started thinking about the iPad like a consumer instead of as a reviewer, I recognized all three of those features as Nice Things that nonetheless I didn’t really need.

But the speed!

Yeah. Well, Apple does a great job maintaining iOS as One Platform, With Liberty And Time-Wasting Apps For All. Any app written in 2011 and probably even 2012 will work just fine on my current machine. In the end, the speed of the iPad 1 isn’t a handicap; in truth, the speed of the iPad 2 is a bonus.

Given that I probably wouldn’t do anything with an iPad 2 that I can’t already do with my iPad 1, I decided to wait until next year to upgrade.