Jumping on the ipad Bandwagon

So in May my parents told me that for my birthday they were going to send me one of their old ipads. You see the thing is, they had three. There are only two of them, and they had three ipads. I thought this was a little excessive. In fact I thought just one was excessive. In my mind the ipad is a computer and ipod touch thrown in all together in a less convenient form than either one of them. You can probably guess my reaction to my parents sending me something that I didn't feel I needed. Having heard that my sister really wanted one I told my parents to send the old one to her. She wanted one, I didn't, and it seemed only logical. Besides, I prefer birthday presents to take a little more thought and perhaps be a little more surprising.

Though my parents were a little upset that I didn't accept their offer they conceded in not giving me the ipad. Though, they never gave it to my sister either. Fast forward to August. My parents still have three ipads for the two of them, and my mom only uses the extra to play more games of Words with Friends. Despite my previous statements I felt like I could at least use it more in proficient ways than that. So I told my parents that if the offer was still up that they should send the ipad my way. I thought maybe I could use it for class notes or something instead of having to lug my laptop around everywhere.

Now September just two days ago I received the ipad in the mail. I can already sense the overall distraction it will cause in my life. I might as well start counting up the APR of time wasted for this year (I'm predicting a high rate of 5.6%). I never thought I would be one of those people with Macbook, an ipod touch, and ipad. I might as well just order my iphone now to continue the ridiculousness. Now don't get me wrong I'm a big Apple fan, and there are a lot of conveniences to all of these things... but I wonder if in the end those conveniences outweigh the costs.