I love mine. A few comments: To the people comparing the features and price to a netbook and saying 'I just don't get it' - it's about the design i.e. how it

I love mine. A few comments: To the people comparing the features and price to a netbook and saying 'I just don't get it' - it's about the design i.e. how it works not just what it can do. I think that the crowd here owes it to themselves to take a close look at one, ideally find a friend who has one, and play with it in a relaxed environment. There is something quite different about the experience that you won't understand by comparing feature lists, and even if you dislike Apple and don't want to buy one, it's worth understanding this because it is a real change to how we interact with computers. Secondly, I have found it to be a great device for traveling. I am visiting London at the moment and got a 10gb microsim for 15GBP. I get to use the thing all day and the battery and data supply is ample. I can catch up on tech news, read docs, read books, and watch movies etc. I could do these on my laptop, but this is way better, and I can carry it with me everywhere and even use it in public without being antisocial, whilst my laptop stays at our base for the odd moment of coding. Finally, an obviously revolutionary moment came for me yesterday. I was looking up details of a medical center, and my father who is nearly 90, was asking me questions. At a certain point he just reached over and took the iPad from my hand and started reading the webpage and scrolling through the document himself. This was the first time he'd touched the thing, and he hasn't used a computer since he retired more than 20 years ago. It might not seem like a big deal, but to me that signifies a profound step in terms of both usability and sociability of computing, not to mention the ubiquity of he web. Smartphones and laptops are both still very much personal computers. The iPad may be the first mass market interpersonal computer.