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Originally Posted by Pushead2

An iPad 2 is within my reasonable price range but is it going to be like most Apple Products that they are left for shit once they upgrade?

Aren't they on the 5th generation of the iPad already?

In general Apple is great at supporting their stuff with software updates as long as the hardware will push it than any Android device. Google and the hardware makers haven't been able to get any more than 3.5% of total Android devices up to the current version. That's compared to Apple getting 74% of their devices up to iOS 7 as of December, with only 4% stuck on iOS 5 or earlier.

My 2007 iMac was running the most recent version of the OS. The only Mac I've used that got stuck without updates was a 2008 Mac Pro that wouldn't got to Mountain Lion but it would run everything before it without a problem.

Right now the first iPad won't run iOS 7, but that's because it had something like 256MB of RAM which was pretty slim.

That said, you're right that the iPad 2 is pretty long in the tooth. If you bought one now, I wouldn't expect to run iOS 8 one it when that drops in the fall.

For what it's worth, my OG iPad still plays back video just fine and we use it for the things you described in your original post.