Preparation

Wow second post time!

I thought I would a update to what I have been doing in prep of my start date. 

So for a while now I have been thinking about purchasing a iPad rMini! However I don't have the money at the moment for one. But yesterday I had a brain wave! 

I have had a 16GB iPad 2 for a year and a half now but hardly ever use, mainly because it had a cracked screen. I decided it would be much more useful if I sold it and put that money towards a new iPad rMini! So I restored it to factory defaults and advertised it on social media, and within an hour i had managed to sell it!

My partner also recognised that I was trying to raise some funds, coincidently he had an iPad 2 the exact same without the cracked screen. We checked the price with a popular high street technology store and made the decision to trade it in there, so I factory reset it and removed the iCloud account and prepared it for trade in.

I still then didn't have enough, but what I did have was a Mac Mini which I didn't use. Due to having a MacBook Pro and a gaming windows machine. So I got the data I needed from the Mac Mini and wiped the hard drive and then priced it up and decided to sell it to the same high street store! This gave me enough funds to make my purchase.

So today I went to the Apple store in Reading and purchased my iPad rMini! 

And if I am honest it's one of the best purchases I have ever made!

I am in love with it already!!

I love how crisp the retina display it, I love how lightweight and slim it is this makes it very attractive as I will be able to use this easily for commuting without to much hassle, also it will come in handy lots when it comes to note taking. It makes the iPad 2 feel heavy and clumsy to use. I love the speed of it I have been able to play quite a graphically advanced game for tablets smoothly without any graphical lag!  I also need to mention the camera, I always hated the iPad 2 camera as it wasn't actually very good and took very low quality photographs. It's nice that Apple have implemented better cameras into the new iPads, I now might actually use it to take some photographs.

So now I have filled my iPad rMini up with Harry Potter audiobooks and note taking applications. I'm avoiding downloading social media apps onto to it also as I find I will spend to much time procrastinating also it is nice to have a device which doesn't have social media. I have enough of it on my phone.

Aside from buying an iPad rMini I have also bought a few new outfits for my new job, kinda of more sensible clothing, smart casual without wearing a suit. The office I am going to be working in is chilled, the people work hard but enjoy themselves at the same time.

Anyway i will post on Sunday the day before I start! Until then...