[AFreeBird]

You seemed to have missed the qualifier: “extensively”.

I suspect that a rollout hands on for the hundreds of press in attendance, would necessitate a limited amount of time with the available products. Still, if those there were already familiar with version one, of not only the iPad, but other serious contenders products; the time allotted should have been enough to give a fairly good (or bad), first impression.

Having a 1st gen iPad myself, I can envision the second version just from the specs alone. Double the speed, 9x graphics speed and all the other announced specs and capabilities sound good to me.

[ThunderSleeps]

I'm sure it is a good product (iPad 2). Just seems a little unfair and maybe premature to be drawing sweeping conclusions so soon, after admittedly limited exposure.

Full disclosure here - I'm an admitted Linux user, and Android-based phone owner. I'm not prejudiced against Apple (I don't think?) I have an iPod touch I use regularly at the gym.