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the new iPad you call an iPad 3 so what I is setting some kind of sales records like most new things from Apple tend to do but that doesn't mean you necessarily want to buy one I'm Brian Cooley here with the top 5 reasons you may not want to buy the new iPad number 5 is price the price hasn't gone up but it hasn't gone down either the iPad is already the most expensive tablet per gigabyte of storage on CNET's current list of the five best largely because Apple tolerates no discounting and you may also find the snap fit case from your iPad 2 doesn't fit your new iPad gotta buy another one there oh you may also find you need a bigger iPad than you had in mind because the new Retina screen has begun this mass conversion to fatter apps and hefty or HD movies on iTunes more on that in a moment number 4 it's heavier and thicker ok that last one's kind of petty it only went from point three four two point three seven inches in thickness but that's just enough for some of the tight-fitting iPad 2 cases to not transfer to the new iPad you have to buy a new one then also the Wake blind almost 2 ounces now both these specs are going the wrong way on a device that already got some knocks for feeling kind of heavy in the hand number three the Retina display oh it's twice the resolution but not necessarily twice the quality certainly not for video you see just like doubling a camera's megapixels does it make your photos twice as good our TV guy David Katz Meyer found the new double screen resolution on this new iPad doesn't make video look that much better in fact he said the improvement ranges from subtle to non-existent icons and text look a lot better but for video this is not gonna be like that night and day thing when you got your first HDTV number two it still got one main port doing a lot of things and one of those things is making you spend money on adapters USB HDMI SD card VGA those all require an adapter or two or three more to buy mortal and by again been there before I take you to the number one reason why you might not want to buy a new iPad the two features that are the least trumpeted about it first the Verizon 4G model is the first iPad that is also a Wi-Fi hotspot but you didn't hear that yet powered by that fast 4G connection that means you can really tear a few devices off it and have enough bandwidth to go around and secondly this is the first tablet ever with Bluetooth 4.0 which is fast enough to stream video can use extremely low power and work with a host of new devices the Bluetooth folks tell us will not have a problem pairing okay the number one reason why this iPad may not be for you is you have an iPad 2 this didn't stop Apple from selling 3 million of the new ones in the first three days but one survey indicated a lot of those folks didn't already have an iPad they were new to the category if you already have a 2 it's lighter its thinner it's just as fast on Wi-Fi has a display I never heard anyone complain about until a few days ago and is no more port challenge than the new one oh and it's got a case you already paid for and still fits for all our iPad coverage little own details and great big how-to guides check out the dedicated iPad section at cnet.com i'm brian coulis thanks for watching