My mother (almost computer-phobic) has been using it for months and now loves it. She uses it for e-mail, loading up pictures from her camera, and some music.

My mother (almost computer-phobic) has been using it for months and now loves it. She uses it for e-mail, loading up pictures from her camera, and some music. Since she has poor satellite internet bandwidth, the iPad isn't very useful for video at her location. I've been using my iPad extensively. My main apps are: - Evernote with auto-sync to my MacBook Pro. It's great for simple note taking. Still wish it had a stylus and sufficient touch resolution. - iAnnotatePDF and Goodreader for PDF reading. I use the former if I need to markup the text. - Netflix. The streaming video is awesome if you have good Wifi. - Dropbox. I loved my Dropbox account before, but with the iPad it's now irreplaceable. My 50GB dropbox account serves as my extended iPad disk system. Any paper, ebook, etc., can be opened in my iPad app of choice. - E-mail and Safari, of course. - Flixster, IMDB. I have the cheaper 250MB 3G account and only use it when I'm away from decent WiFi.