Anyone going to stand in line for this thing? Just wondering

[Moto]

----->     http://www.apple.com/ipad/

I can't see where the iPad would fit into my life except perhaps in a drawer next to my barely used PSP.

I'm more interested in what the next gen iPhone will have.  Hopefully it will incorporate the A4 processor and some new bits.

[Moto]

I picked one up on Saturday as well.  Great device.  I find myself using it to read books, browse the web, watch TV shows and movies (netflix), listen to music (Pandora and my own collection) and play games.  It's a great form factor (very book like) and is easy on the eyes for extended periods.  I doubt I'll get the 3G version as I probably won't carry it with me wherever I go (but who knows).  It would be nice to be able to tether it to the iPhone some day.    It's a great house hold internet appliance.  But for now it is indeed a luxury item not a necessity like my iPhone.  Browsing the web on the iPad is very fast -- it almost seems faster than my desktop machine.  The real innovation will be the slew of iPad apps coming out soon. I had low expectations for this device but now I see the potential it has.  It might be time to renew my apple developer license and crank out some Apps!

[Moto]

It supposedly lasts 10 hours.  It seemed like after a full day of using it on and off (movies, tv shows and a ton of browsing) it still had about 58% battery left.  I'm quite surprised about that.  I also like that the netflix interface is full featured unlike the xbox360 version where you have to manage your queue from a browser.  The device is a bit heavier than I thought it would be and that's probably mostly from the battery.  But really it's not any heavier than a book of equal size.  

The lack of multitasking and/or app-switching is a little bit of a nuisance.  I am hoping that with Apple's announcement of OS4 that we have some new features like that.  I would love to be able to stream pandora and surf the web at the same time.  The iPhone 3G didn't have enough horse power to handle that ( I tried via jail breaking my phone but pandora would stutter when you'd run an app in the background).

[Moto]

@pyromania

yes, it does.  There is a Kindle App that amazon made for the iPhone and iPad.  It's really nice.  I have a ton of PDF ebooks and I found an app that lets me read those as well.  There's also the official Apple book reader that integrates with iTunes.  I think these are all great options.  Personally, I prefer non-DRM versions of books like the kind you can get directly from Oreilly.  For the same reason is why I don't buy xbox live games because you can't lend them out or easily copy/move/backup/sell them.

[Moto]

What a shame there are so many close minded individuals here.  It's almost impossible to have intelligent open discourse on this forum.  You should have just called this thread "Let's bash the iPad".