{"id":850,"date":"2011-07-14T10:00:56","date_gmt":"2011-07-14T15:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techcitement.com\/?p=850"},"modified":"2011-11-17T22:10:27","modified_gmt":"2011-11-18T04:10:27","slug":"on-the-cheap-how-about-an-ipad2-for-less-than-105","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/hardware\/tablet\/on-the-cheap-how-about-an-ipad2-for-less-than-105\/","title":{"rendered":"On The Cheap: An iPad2 For Less Than $105?"},"content":{"rendered":"
On The Cheap is a feature where we investigate low-cost solutions to staying high tech. It comes out every two weeks. Like a Paycheck. Aren’t we clever?<\/em><\/p>\n Would you like to own an iPad2 for less than $105?<\/p>\n Caught your attention there?<\/p>\n If you\u2019re the sort of person who gets techcited, then you either hate tablets with a passion or think they\u2019re \u201cthe new black\u201d. I, for one, have been dying for a tablet for ages. The problem is tablets aren\u2019t cheap. If you want an inexpensive tablet, your options are: some junky tablet barely running Android on what will turn out to be a resistive screen (2000 called, they want their iPaqs back), that you end up returning to wherever you found it, or get a small break on a 3G tablet when you tack it onto your cell phone contract, which causes you to then lose any money you would have saved when it’s<\/p>\n now taken from you month to month. There are a few reasonably affordable options, and far less when you hit the 10″ range (ViewSonic’s gTab<\/a> being a rare exception). Those aren\u2019t something<\/p>\n the average consumer would know about, and there\u2019s certainly no way to save money on the market leader, the Apple iPad2<\/a>.<\/p>\n Except you can. How? PowerMax.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n PowerMax is an established Mac vendor, and one I\u2019ve dealt with before. What\u2019s unique about them is that they take trade-ins<\/a>. You can actually send in your old Mac and get a credit towards any item on their site. I\u2019d used this service way back when my daughter was a toddler and decided that the G4 iMac’s pivoting screen was a fun toy.<\/p>\n The trade worked out well, so I thought I\u2019d try it for an iPad. As you might imagine, I\u2019ve got a lot of junk laying about.<\/p>\n