And honestly, what was my big problem with the E-P1 in the first place? No flash. Fine: buy a flash. Sometimes you can get so enamored with having The New Version that you forget that the whole point of this expensive exercise is to solve problems.

Er… it’s the iPad 2! That’s, like, one whole iPad better than my iPad 1!

I stuck with my original iPad.

It’s not that the iPad 2 isn’t a huge improvement. Its CPU is a monster. When I ran it through its paces for my review, I didn’t test its speed with an engineering benchmark suite. I used real-world apps. One task that took my old iPad more than three and a half minutes to process was chewed up and spit out by the iPad 2 in just fifty two seconds.