[BobLenx]

Took four tries to get it to work. It did backup, downloaded software, expanded and verified it then died due to servers being overloaded. But eventually it went thru fine.

When finished I had none of my apps, iBooks or music. I assumed the installation process would do this or prompt me to do it, but obviously not, it is a manual process which I guess makes sense. I had to recover the apps from my PC, which took some time as I had to reorganize them all over again into folders - and I assumed folders were being backed up to iTunes. The only apps that were in folders were the ones that come with the iPad, all the rest were simply splattered all over multiple screens. What a pain to reorganize.

All this after having updated iTunes and doing sync backup and transfer apps TWICE to be sure I was ready to go. However, the end result is a better organized iPad. And after restoring apps from my PC all of my app data was there fine and dandy.

Safari tabs and reading list are a nice improvement. I don't notice any performances increases, if there were any.

Now exploring ios5 to see what gives. I really like using the four finger move to go between open apps, a serious time saver. So far all my apps work okay. There were a lot of pre ios5 app updates last few days and another 15 or so for me after installation.

Off to read the new manual.

I set up WiFi sync to my PC which is nifty rather than having to connect via cable, Also set up iTunes so cabled backups go to iCloud rather than to the PC, tho you can toggle and do both.