[RightOnTheLeftCoast]

Matches my own observations. It's taking off.

[RightOnTheLeftCoast]

Ping, and bring all your FRiends.

[MamaB]

My daughter received one for her birthday in June and she loves it.

[The_Victor]

Haven't seen any in the engineering world at NASA. Come to think of it I have yet to see an iPad at all, but then I'm an engineer, so I don't get out much.

[Syntyr]

I am the most die hard PC person around. I have owned every flavor of Windows and DOS ever made. I won't buy a Mac because I don't like the way they work. I like my PC totally customizable and changeable. I don't want to be forced in to the way Apple thinks I should work.

However, I bought one and absolutely Love it as an entertainment, gaming, watching movies, and freeping device. I can even access my PC’s and Servers using Log Me In Ignition.

Well it ever replace my laptops or PCs? No! But it has found a place in my home!

[montag813]

I need to be able to manage multiple Twitter and Facebook accounts and also do some website coding/ftp. Are there apps for that?

[coon2000]

I was sitting by the pool last weekend with my kids working on my server at the office. I used the built in VPN to open a tunnel, then used VNC to access various workstations at the office. All the while on 3G, performance was very good. They really are very nice devices.

[RachelFaith]

Our bank just made a large corporate purchase and one of the plans is to use them in place of more costly notebooks used now in meetings and on the road and in the field. O

ur studies show that notebooks and netbooks are rarely used for more than email or information purposes. The low end iPads are a very productive and cost effective tool to replace our aging notebook/netbook inventory. And they require far less IT time to keep running.

Our first PO was 500 and I expect that to be 5,000 before year end, as we still have may aged and falling apart old toughbooks in stock, and this helps not only costs but everyone is psyched for them, so morale is way way up since the news.

This is a corporate PO, individuals, individual cost centers and managers with their own department budgets and who have been forecast to purchase IT hardware, have been sent a memo suggesting they consider the iPad and return a portion of their intended purchase draw back to their funding department account, saving the company significant money and of course, helping their department meet budget.

[tacticalogic]

I’d probably get one if I could get something other than Edge reception at home.

[Richard Kimball]

The report also highlights Daimler's Mercedes-Benz unit, which has rolled out iPads to 40 of its U.S. dealerships to allow sales representatives to share financing options with customers as they wander around the showroom.

This was one of the first uses I thought of, as a rolling sales display device for sales people, where the smoothness of passing information back and forth is essential.

I'm also expecting it to be used in medical situations, where doctors can get x-rays, MRIs, etc.

[Swordmaker]

The iPad is becoming very useful in corporate America—PING!

Please don't feed the anti-Apple trolls, it only encourages them!

iPad in the Enterprise Ping!

If you want on or off the Mac Ping List, Freepmail me.

[Vendome]

I am even considering getting one.

The form and footprint are perfect for my needs and I can do my presentations from this and it has many other uses.