[Goldsborough]

The iPad's potential competitors are also crippled in functionality by having to use Windows. It's worth being called a fanboy or a cultist to not have to use that retarded system from Redmond. Just yesterday, my father in law was being befuddled by Windows deciding to save an email attachment somewhere on his C drive and only showing it on his desktop, where he'd indicated it be stored, as an alias. Not a big deal to right click and reveal where the file had been sprayed off to, but rather emblematic of the Bizzaro world approach to the user experience taken by Gates, Ballmer and Co.

BTW for everyone mentioning screen tech on this thread, the iPad uses backlit LED with interplane switching, not backlit LCD screen technology. Of course, OLED would be really nice, but blow the price point. Maybe in a few years' time.

[Kellis91789]

How long is the battery supposed to last on the iPad ?

And how does the external keyboard work when it has no USB or other connections ? Does it use Bluetooth to connect wirelessly ? I don’t really see the iPad ever replacing laptops for serious business use, but having a real keyboard would be nice.