Alright,

Enough with these looooong winded posts. It's obvious my brother is CRAAZY and there's no point in arguing with him when he's like this

I'll wrap it up real quick, I'm with Ed on this one. This device is cool, and the "basic" user will love this thing. Great. But I don't think this is the revolution that my brother thinks it is. What does this thing do that any other notebook, netbook, iphone or even tablet can't do. It's cool, but lets call a spade a spade, it's a big ipod touch. Name one thing that this thing does that the ipod touch doesn't. All the apps that run on this (maybe not iWorks) will run on an ipod touch. It's like saying a 20" inch monitor is the revolution of Pc's compared to a 12" monitor.

Problems I see with it: Why make it square so all your videos are distorted, why make it have no camera for video chat, why make it not have multitasking (this is a big deal, I don't care what you say Nels). Apple has people brain washed that this thing is awesome. Sure it's cool, and I'm absolutely sure version 2 or 3 will be amazing because they'll add copy and paste and everyone will go CRAZY. I love my iPhone, its the best tech I've ever owned but I really dislike Apple as a company. I think the way they do things is ridiculous.

The whole E-ink vs LCD issue is just stupid. I think you're arguing just to argue. I don't need a freaking study to tell me that there's a difference between reading a book vs reading a computer screen. Fine your eyes may hurt after reading a magazine for too long but that's because you need glasses. Maybe this screen is different, but in GENERAL, LCD is more straining on the eyes. This isn't true for everyone, us Geeks use PC's so much that we are used to it, but to the "basic user" this is not always true.

One more thing. I would think Sheree is an example of a basic user. Now I doubt she will read any of these posts, but I can garuntee that she has no interest in the iPad. And if she had the option to go kindle or iPad to read books, she would go kindle.

You may be 100% right that this thing will revolution the WORLD, but I for one am dissapointed, and if you search around the internet, so are a lot of other people. 10 years in development and they came up with this:

Lets post about something fun and exciting.

Bottom line: Should've/could've been better, but I'll probably get one once I see it in the store. And that's what Apples does, they make it just pretty enough that you want one. Apple definitely did succeed in sparking up a debate between geeks. Too bad nobody else gives a shit.