[Star Traveler]

You were saying ...

Again. iPads will not be used for much, if any, work. They will be used to consume. Why on earth is that a bad thing?

It's not a bad thing to use it for things that people "consume" ... like reading articles on the Internet, or reading books or listening to TV programs or listening to radio programs or to podcasts or several other things like that -- that one can do on a regular laptop or a desktop computer.

That's not the bad part.

The bad part is to start talking like no one will use it for anything else, when you see a large number of articles stating how others are using it for productive items and how businesses and schools and doctors/medical establishments are setting up to use the iPad for very productive uses.

That's the bad part -- to have people thinking (by statements to that effect) ... that it won't be used for productive things, when the evidence is out there, right now, how others are using and setting up to use it for very productive things.

And that kind of "thinking" leads right into those kinds of stupid comments by those so-called pundits, who are "nattering nabobs of negativity" when they say, "people are not going to want to give up their e-mail" ... LOL ...

[moehoward]

Once the keyboard dock comes out, it will be easier to use it as a mini-work station. Those determined types will suffer through it's small form factor to prove it can be done. In a pinch I can "work" on my iPhone. Some invoicing checking order status, and inventory functions. But it's not easy.

Real work. Graphic design, Page layout on and on is best done on a large screen. Most of my work is done on a 17" MacBook Pro. My best work comes from my Quad Core MacPro and 30" Cinema Display.

"...like reading articles on the Internet, or reading books or listening to TV programs or listening to radio programs or to podcasts or several other things like that..."

And the iPad is the hands down best way to do these things.