If you have been looking for ways to personalize your iPads, well here it is at last. And the best thing is the service is being offered from the makers of the device itself and they are all to glad to offer it free. While this isn’t new to iDevices as Apple has been providing such a service for the iPod for years now, what’s exciting is that the service has now been extended to cover the iPad as well which does makes sense for a device that is selling in millions.


Also, the free engraving service was waiting to take off for months now though this seems to be the right time to do so, what with the holiday season coming round the corner. Up till now, the same thing was being done through third party companies that charge anything from $10 or even more. Apple though isn’t charging anything to engrave two lines of text or less on the back of the iPads that has been purchased from Apple online stores.


However, such a thing will delay the shipment from 24 hours that it takes now to about 72 business hours. In fact, the delay might go up significantly if the scheme proves successful, which means, if you wish to have an iPad engraved with custom text during Christmas, you might have to start early an place your orders by next month itself. The service covers both the Wi-Fi as well as the 3G versions of the iPad.