How To Resist Your iPad 2 Craving

CNET’s David Carnoy notes that the iPad 2 didn’t look any different from what we expected it to look like – and it didn’t look all that different from the original iPad. But suddenly there on stage in the flesh it had taken on a new, irresistible sheen. Not the Charlie kind of Sheen. Just the Apple kind….

However he counsels that while the iPad 2 is nice, a lot of Apple lovers have their eyes on the MacBook Air…. and while some people can afford an iPad 2 and a next-generation Air, many can’t, so given the choice, if you have an original iPad, it might make more rational sense to take the cash you’d spend on an iPad 2 and apply it toward purchasing a next-generation Air, which after all, is a full-fledged machine that supports Flash, but notes that you should wait now until Apple upgrades the Air to Sandy Bridge Core “i” processors.

Carnoy adds that he always argues that when it comes to Apple’s mobile products, it’s good idea to skip a generation…. “You know the next 9.7-inch iPad, wich will most likely be released in March 2012, will be thinner, lighter, have a faster process, and a better screen. And you only have to wait 365 days to get it.”