Yes thats right it appears that right on schedule the iPad 3 will be announced in the first week of March and released at least in America the following week. There isn’t much news on when it will be available everywhere else if past esperiance is to go by it looks like the UK could see the iPad 3 available as early as March the 9th or 16th.

Will I be getting one, erm no I’ve already go an iPad 2 and I’m waiting for the new iMacs to be released with will hopefully be in April or May and will come with the new Ivy Bridge processors and it will have a slight redesign. My hope is that it will be available with an SSD as default and also a standard SATA hard drive. The chip set that is already in the current iMac allows for both drives to appear as a single drive with the most commonly access files automatically moved onto the SSD, so come Apple lets have it a super quick desktop Mac that we have all been waiting for!

I’m sitting here writing this on a good old laptop with a keyboard and a lovely LED backlit 13″ screen. But could I do that with the new iPad, well I don’t think so I quite like having a nice keyboard to use thank you very much. But maybe this isn’t the audiance for the new iPad, well thats if what the new Apple Tablet is going to get called.

So what is it going to be used for?

Well I can see it as being a good way of viewing and surfing the net and looking at news articles and yes you guessed it reading books, how will Apple cope with having a device that doesn’t have a glossy screen. So thats good but I’m not sure I want to spend upwards of £400 or even more to get one. Surely its going to have to be more than that, it might be quite good for larger strategy games the developers have been asked to look at higher resolution games after all and expect it to have 3D graphics chips to spice things up.

Yes it will be super thin, and have a nice big 10″ OLED screen which will help to improve the battery life, it will need to be quite light aswell. I’d expect it might also have 3G as well as Wifi otherwise how would it update when you are on the move, I bet the networks will love having more devices to deal with.

So we could be looking at a device that is going to start to shape computing into the next decade or a big flop and and expensive one at that. It will probably be a great hit that many will love and an equal measure hate, me I’m yet to be convinced but I guess we will find out more on the 26th of January, launch date? I’d go for April or May pre-updated iPhone etc. likely in June.