Hasta La Ideas

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pJust indulge me here. /p

pI’ve never really been one for unboxing (or early adoption), but if there’s any moment to savor the arrival of a long awaited technology product, this would be it. As a web editor, I spend roughly 20 hours a week hunched over a keyboard I’m not using to read online content, and the day that I can bring an article over to the couch and hold it in my hand could not have come sooner./p

pMy iPad arrived via UPS just an hour ago; I greeted the driver WAY over enthusiastically, signed for my box, set it on the kitchen table and wrung my hands for 5 minutes before I decided that, yes, I would document this (in spite of the wonderfully cheeky a href=”http://www.core77.com/blog/technology/unboxing_the_ipeep__16319.asp”iPeep Unboxing/a that precedes)./p

pSo here goes, the story in pictures:/p

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pIt arrived in a generic enough box, and, though Apple attempted discretion (“Return to: AI”), it’s not too difficult to guess what’s insidemdash;I imagine that the UPS truck was stuffed full of these little boxes, all the same./p

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pThe package is a simulacra of its contents. At this point I was so excited that I had to stop for a minute (dork). /p

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pObligatory shot of the back of the boxmdash;yes, I bought the absolute minimum wireless 16GB version, with no accessories./p

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