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Marilyn, I am 45 miles from Costco. I have an appointment close to there on Monday so I will go in and visit them! I did open the new iPad and it appears fine, as I expected. The rest of the apps are downloading now. I did pause everything so I could download some goodies. I'm not going to lie, I had to watch a video again to figure out how to do that. LOL. They are unzipped and waiting to play. Hopefully I will have time this evening. I'm leaving in a few minutes for appointments. (One is in Excelsior Angie, I will wave as I go by....) Accessories to arrive this afternoon. Oh...and yes, the new iPad is AWESOME!!!

So...I maybe need *allthegoodthings* in my cart right now!!! Such loveliness!

Nevermind...it appears to be updating now. It just took it a while to figure out what it needed I guess. NOW to open up my pencil. We are leaving soon, so I will leave it home charging (GAH!!) and updating while we are gone.

Sorry for your frustration Marilyn! I ordered something for Leroy a few weeks back. Went back to reorder it...shipping was $426. Yes. for a $100 think. Next. But seriously, why????

I did photograph the box. Thank you for the information and link Marilyn. Will certainly check into that! I opened it and it looks fine as I expected. (Boy...she sure is pretty!!) I am trying to restore from my current iPad, but the new iPad needs newer ios...but I can't update that because I can't get past the restore screen. Any thoughts??

LOL @ "I don't want to start designing"....WHY would we? We have amazing designers here to do that for us!!!

H E L P !!!!! Mr. UPS Man was just here delivering my iPad and Apple Pencil!!!! As he is walking up with my box I notice it is a little beat up and he is saying "this box doesn't look so great". *gasp* Corey (yes...I know him by his first name, he is here often...lol) do you know WHAT is in that box??? My new iPad. Well, I can't repeat what he said, but there was a flap open and you could see inside the box. The shipping box is beat up and there wasn't enough packing to keep the iPad from rattling inside the box. I am afraid to open the iPad box! I guess if it looks fine I will *assume* it is fine? I have called the local Costco (relayed the incident) and they do not have any in stock. They have assured me that I have 90 days to return it if there are any issues. What are your thoughts? Try it and see? Ship it back? Use it until the store has them? Sit in a corner and cry? This story only adds to the fiasco I have dealt with the last 8 days getting packages here, none of which are issues with my local driver or even UPS. They have all been issues from the shipper.

Yay!! We are excited you are here to help us Syndee! I think some of our questions (frustrations) are regarding all the different apps necessary. Also, some of it is just iPad learning curve for some of us who are newer to the iPad. Not only are we learning a new operating system, but also new apps! Oh..and writing on a tablet is a new thing to me too. I need a "writing 101" for tablets. OHHHH...did I mention I am left-handed? Sometimes that adds challenges. I have pretty good handwriting on paper (when I focus on it)...but it looks like chicken scratches on the tablet!! Is it just me?? I know one thing Becky and I have racked our brains about it saving files as Good Notes files. HOW on earth do we take our amazing SG supplies and save them as a whole sheet of individually cropped images for Good Notes. Now I am running to track my iPad and Apple Pencil delivery....it should be here this afternoon!!

I will not buy any more accessories. I WILL not buy any more accessories. I. WILL. NOT. BUY. ANY. MORE. ACCESSORIES. (today) My poor UPS man. Good thing he was on vacation LAST week.

I love it, Marilyn! That's the same case I have on my mini. Leroy got the iPad for me and I think he thought he got rose gold...but it isn't. I never said anything and just put a rose gold case on it.

My phone is rose gold, but my iPad is just plain old gold *sigh*

Another thing to add to the "want list"...I will look at those, I am not familiar with that brand. I assume it is Apple compatible, but a better price?

I do not use the wireless keyboard that came with my iMac as I need a keyboard with the number pad. I assume it would be compatible with my iPads if necessary. The charger adapter is so that you can use your iPhone charger to charge the pencil, otherwise, it charges in the iPad port, which I think is ODD. I would like the wireless earbuds (I almost called them air buds lol) but it worries me that they would be easily lost??? But I get so tired of untangling my headphones that it might be worth it. Sometime.

I saw this somewhere also Marilyn, however...I think you can have it on your iPads/iPhones for the same purchase price (same app) but I thought it was different for Mac. Don't spend any time on it!! I'm at Amazon now, searching for the screen protector. If I check out within 2 hours, I will have it Friday.

Marilyn, did you purchase GoodNotes 4 for your Mac? (it's a separate $$ though...grrrr) Just curious if it is worth it or not.