They can't, they lost a visionary and one who can create new markets whilst Tim Cook is an operations guy and you can see what he does best in Apple's strategies. Nothing brilliantly innovative but just purely business. The new iPad is purely to aim at the education market which Apple has been losing ground on with the proliferation of Chromebooks.

I would love to have an iphone that is aluminium anodised blue

Has anyone seen them at the local retail stores yet?

Thanks for the heads up, will probably call SenHeng later at 1U to see if they have stock (their online website shows that they have stock)

Aiya, was thinking of visiting Machines today to check out if they have units

Welcome to the world of international logistics and production. It's a good view on how a large corporate manages its supply chain.

All of the stock comes from China, the assembly is all there. Singapore is routed through for distribution in the region. So when it comes from Singapore means that there is stock available there that hasn't been allocated to the local market. If yours come from China means that Singapore has run out of stock and they need to get direct from China. If you compare the manufacturing number, you would probably see that the set from Singapore was manufactured first before the one you get in China. Probably the difference is in days or weeks. So in essence, yes one is old stock and one is fresh from factory.

Just purchased mine from MacStudio at Paradigm Mall on an impulse. Space Grey 32Gb with Wifi. Definitely a big change from my current Mini 2 and also from my iPad Pro 12.9" LOL.

Yeah, if you have a lot of files to store such as media files and all, then definitely the 32Gb isn't sufficient. Straight out from the iPad you will only have around 24Gb of space after accounting for the OS and stuff.

Yup but once you take it out of the box you will see around 24Gb which was on mine. Deleted all of those iWork apps and other Apple apps which I don't use at all.

I was informed of the same as well by both Machines and MacStudio. Since if two stores says that I should wait, then I guess I have to wait for it as well.

I actually wanted to get the 9.7' iPad Pro as well but realised that most of the work I am doing is still on my laptop hence the Pro would be overkill for me to just watch movies and TV series on PLEX as well as read eBooks and Manga.

No issues when I am streaming a lot of online videos via the HTML5 players with the new iPad.

Nice! I still haven't purchased any accessories for mine yet! Now just travelling bare naked in my daily laptop bag to work and back haha.

Rumours point to a 10" version of the new pro

Looks extremely tempting! But at USD$99 that translate to >RM400 which is almost 1/3 the cost of the iPad LOL

Get the new iPad, it is cheaper than the Mini, you get a larger screen and you get a faster processor. Unless size is the main factor, getting a Mini doesn't make sense since it is so outdated already

Apple wants to target the Education market, the problem with that means that they have to keep things low. They are up against Chromebooks and even the new Windows 10 S machines which Microsoft announced that their partners will have laptops starting from USD$189 onwards. Macs in general already are normally too expensive in schools here and when I follow Apple to our local schools here to sell, even an iPad Air 2 was such a difficult sell, with the new cheap iPad starting from RM1549 and adding in the further education discounts, it makes so much more sense.

Normally Apple sells them via the Education Resellers. Some of them go to Universities and colleges and high schools around to sell. There are a few members here who manage to purchase from various sellers about. Need to show proof by showing student ID.

That is quite minimal already from a credit card usage spend. Remember that the Treatspoints is valid up to 3 years so if broken down over time, it isn't really much. Btw, I know a few people who have millions of treatspoints

Just wait for AEON's second sunday promotion.
http://harga.runtuh.com/2017/02/aeon-big-m...t-discount.html

If you are not a member now, you can apply for it to wait for June's promotion.

I got the Odoyo Slim Case for the new iPad
http://www.odoyo.com/product/slimcoat-coll...-ipad-9-7-inch/

Managed to get it at Mac City at 1Utama when the iPad was launched. Love it because it is a smart case equivalent at less than half the price of Apple's cases!

Not too sure on that, probably have to ship it in. You can probably get better luck with the local retail stores