[Dr. Sivana]

System Admin needs to try a Netbook. My wife’s gets 10+ hours between charging.

Your wife probably doesn't have a $300 netbook, but a $450 netbook. (I don't think the 3 cell versions get 10 hours)

IS could lock down Windows 7, but the whole point is to try to aoid having an IS.

THe size and portrait orientation of the iPad gives it a useability that the old folks that tends to be on these committees tend to appreciate.

I like netbooks and cheap laptops just fine. I find the Kindle/eReader/Nook devices to be too small, and the Kindle especially a kludge.

[isthisnickcool]

THe size and portrait orientation of the iPad gives it a useability that the old folks that tends to be on these committees tend to appreciate.

My dad would not touch a computer. Ever. Us kids got him an iPad for Christmas and you would have thought we gave him a magic wand*. We were all shocked to see him using it this weekend. He is on facebook today! LOL! We got him the iPad and the book "iPad For Seniors for Dummies" and off he went.

* I hereby copyright the idea of advertising an iPad as a magic wand. If Apple does a commercial were they show a senior citizen using a magic wand that morphs in to an IPad or an Ipad morphing in to a magic wand I expect a check in the mail....:)

[kdot]

$279, ACES Eee PC. 8 hours of battery (6 cell)