[raybbr]

Okay, let’s hear some reasons why someone SHOULD buy this thing and not a netbook or a laptop instead?

[SamAdams76]

For starters, a 20-hour battery life (try that with a laptop), virtually no bootup time and near instant access to all media (newspapers, magazines, books, movies, video, audio, web, email, etc.)

As the iPod rendered CD collections obsolete virtually overnight (a thousand songs in your pocket was the first slogan), the iPad will do the same for all the rest of the media.

The only gaffe Apple made was initially releasing the product with no 3G. They should have waited until 3G was ready as the device is essentially crippled where there is no Wi-Fi. People that rushed to buy one first will be disappointed later when people who waited are able to download media from virtually anywhere.

[itsahoot]

let’s hear some reasons why someone SHOULD buy this thing

Because they love Steve and are inside his Reality Distortion field, no other reason is needed.
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