[Swordmaker]

So, I was planning on getting an ipad soon, but should I hurry up and buy it today, because the unlimited data plan is going away? Will that be grandfathered in, in the same way they are saying the iphone existing customers will be grandfathered in?

I don't know. I am a fairly heavy user of my iPad... but I have WIFI at home... and I analyzed my iPhone use over the last almost three years. I decided to only get the $15 250MB plan... and had 61MBs left when it rolled over yesterday. On the other hand, I am not streaming any movies... Had I been using the 3G for ALL of my usage, I would have exceeded the 250MBs in about two weeks... but a lot of that was on WIFI and that is not counted.

[BreitbartSentMe]

Thanks for the input, but the issue might be moot now. Went down to my local Apple Store to try and buy a 3g iPad, and none are currently available. You apparently have to make a ‘reservation’, and they will email you when your number is called. However, your reservation is only good at 1 specific Apple Store, and for 1 specific configuration. Doesn’t seem to make sense. When I bought my iPhone, I bought the 16gb model instead of the 8gb that I wanted, because that was all they had available at the 3rd-4th store I contacted. Hmm, don’t really understand the reasons behind the reservation system, but it probably means that I can’t get my hands on one before the Monday data plan switch. BTW, none of the Best Buy stores in my area have any 3g models either. I may be SOL... :-(