Thinking about buying an iPad for my wife for Christmas. I own a 1st model Macbook Air and it is nice but now almost 3 years old. Wife and I battled over it when we compute in bed. :hammer::hammer:
So, get an iPad and we will battle over that now. hehehe
I played with one at the Apple Store and it is rather nice. Fits in the hand nice, lots of dock options for making it a mini desktop setup if need be or watching flicks on it.
Rather nice piece of "kit" as those from overseas always say. That word kit always makes me smile. 
tj
My wife took my iPad after one day.