I'm a coder and I have an iPad. I haven't yet used my iPad for coding. I don't think I will. I do have a really great ssh/vpn app for the iPhone/iPad, so in a

I'm a coder and I have an iPad. I haven't yet used my iPad for coding. I don't think I will. I do have a really great ssh/vpn app for the iPhone/iPad, so in a pinch, I can get to my servers and make a fix or check a log file. But other than that, I don't expect to use my iPad for coding. I'm just too bound to emacs and a keyboard to see it being a reasonable use of the iPad. However, for almost everything else, I've been using and preferring the iPad. I had already relegated all RSS feed reading, Twitter and Facebook (anything that could distract me from coding) to my iPhone. Now using the iPad, I'm even more efficient with my time and the experience is more enjoyable. And as a general entertainment device, the iPad wins across my entire family: my wife and 5 year old daughter both love it. All that said, there are definitely some areas in which I feel the iPad is deficient. I expect these to be resolved over time, but it's something to consider: - Google Docs just doesn't work on the iPad. Considering how much I use Google Docs, this is a major blow to the usefulness of the iPad. - The email client is weak. If you get a large amount of email or are on several mailing lists, then you'll still fallback on using some other web or desktop email client. I really wish I could use the iPad as my main email device, but its just not suitable yet. - GMail for the iPad is actually decent except for one bug: you can't properly scroll when composing long emails that span one vertical screen space. Again, this just makes GMail useless on occasion. - Some multitasking would be great. Honestly, I like the focus you get when you're dealing with one app at a time. But I would really like to be always signed into Skype and GTalk. I would like to be able to load more than one web page at a time and switch between them without requiring them to reload (ok, that's more a memory problem than a multitasking problem). Also, I got the wifi-only version thinking I wouldn't really want or need the 3G version. Now I would strongly recommend the 3G version if you can afford it. The iPad is just so much more mobile than a laptop that I take it everywhere if I can. The battery life is amazingly great for a device like this. So having access everywhere would make the iPad even better.