So worth it!
I know some people don't like this...but the iPad is basically a large iPod Touch (just the bigger screen)...which I think is just fine.
- Nick
In deed it is just a large itouch...which is fantastic. After all if wise didn't matter then we would all be using 14" monitors on our desktop, 12" laptops would be the largest they come...and suburbans would be useless. There is a reason they say bigger is better. And the iPad is exactly that...bigger and MUCH better. Totally practical and useful when a itouch is only just barely tolerable.
Personally...I have tons of over lap. Yes it concerns me...and the iPad g3 is going to solve tons of problems and overlap. I am on the wifi right now laying down on my couch resting my aching back. The last thing i want to do is sit in a chair worrying on of three laptops in a three foot reach. And i definitely don't want to sit at the desktop another minute.
For me, i use a computer about 15 hours in a normal day. I teach photography in a computer lab. Even when i get home, I am usually back on the computer working on personal related stuff from my own personal photography, website management, responding to non-school related client emails, rent house issues, or school related computer stuff, and the list goes on and on. You get the idea..and I am sure many of you all are exactly the same.
I have 4 laptops in the house (not counting my wifes) that are all used regularly depending on the task. One is a 17" that I do most of my serious work that doesn't require sitting at the home desktop with 2 monitors, one of them being a 28" for culling through literally thousands of photos from an event. On the other end is the netbook which is pretty useless...except it has a big fat hard drive, and plenty of usb ports. I'll spare you the rest of the details of the other laptops.
At work, I use two desktops with two and three screens and a desktop Mac and two other single monitor desktops to facilitate the class of 24 student stations. I installed my own wifi router to help run the class including wireless cameras to monitor the class.
The point of all this is that there are tons of times l want the lightest possible device with the largest possible screen to monitor, check, follow and do exactly what I am doing right now and this laying flat on my back and reading and posting to various forums I follow to keep up with all of the stuff i do during the day.
The iPad is exactly what I wanted. And it is almost perfect. I do plan to return the wifi model tomorrow...and patiently wait for the 3G.
At home...it is exactly what I wanted it to be. Perfect for lounging around anywhere on my property and work a little...or share with others...like this.
Away from home, it is also awesome to be able to carry something so perfectly light. I did like the newton as i could actually put it in my pocket...but this will do.
At work, it is also awesome. I can actually take attendance, enter grades, take notes while walking around the room, etc. Awesome.
Awesome!