But with business travel, you need a keyboard, and word processing. And the iPad doesn't multitask.

I meant for the plane. You can keep your laptop in the wheeled luggage and use this for reading and watching video.

I think they just killed the Kindle DX. This should provide some nice downward pressure on e-book readers.

I think they just killed the Kindle DX

I would agree. Amazon's Kindle division is likely shitting bricks. Granted, there is still the Kindle app.

Yah, I'm a bit annoyed (OK, a lot annoyed) at the book pricing. I mean....seriously? The books are going to be more than paperbacks?? Does that include books that...are paperbacks? Or would have only been released as paperbacks? Because when Apple did this for CDs it made things CHEAPER ($9.99 was LESS than most CDs cost, at the time).

MadTV's iPad Video: Sketch Show PREDICTED Apple Product, Mocked It Perfectly

Turns out MadTV beat us to the punch. Fox's now-defunct sketch comedy show, made this fake ad years ago for the "iPad"--a menstruation device that hooks to your computer. Apple probably should have Googled "iPad" before going with this name.

meara, most of the paperbacks are at 4.99-- the stuff that was priced higher was hardback and here's the thing and this is why they've just boned Amazon spectacularly-- in all likelihood, because of the agreements that Apple has made with five out of the big six publishers, it will allow new releases to drop on the same day as a traditional release at a price point that, while not as high as a full price hardback, it's comparable to a discounted hardback price.

What happened was when amazon started pricing new release hardbacks e-books at 9.99, it forced Wal-Mart, because of their match lowest price guarantee, to price their physical hardbacks the same, which was a HUGE loss for the publishers & Wal-Mart alike. In many cases, however, Wal-Mart, not wanting to take the loss, simply refused to carry the title, also, a huge loss for the publisher because like it or not, WallyWorld is the single largest book retailer in the country. So what would happen was that publishers began writing clauses into author contracts stating that e-book releases would be held back a month or two months or whatever, which annoyed Kindle users, because they wanted to be able to read the book the same day it dropped as a hard copy.

My guess is, based on the pricing that I saw in the presentation, Apple's iBook store is going to release titles on the same day as the hard copy, which is going to make a LOT of people happy. Of course, that's just speculation, but it wouldn't surprise me.

Given that I've held out on buying a netbook and/or a dedicated e-reader, I may well wind up buying one of these in the next year or two. For me, it'll be a huge travel save, allowing me to do everything I'd like to do at conferences without worrying about my laptop, which is my main computer.

I meant for the plane. You can keep your laptop in the wheeled luggage and use this for reading and watching video.

See, for me on a lot of business travel I'll be able to leave the laptop at home. This will have the full iWork suite so I've got Word Processing, Spreadsheet, and Keynote with it, and then I also have full email and calendar. For quick note entry the onscreen keyboard should be fine. I can already tap out emails pretty darned quickly on my iPhone and with the extra screen space this should be even easier. For longer entry I'll make sure to have one of the bluetooth keyboards in my luggage. The bluetooth keyboards that Apple sells are tiny and really easy to pack, I actually travel with one much of the time already. The cover that they are selling with the iPad can hold it in a number of positions so that you've got an easel if you are working with an external keyboard, or another position that holds the whole device at a keyboard angle for onscreen typing.

ita, I mentioned the Droid GSM incompatibility to DH and he sent me these links for you: [link] and [link]

I"m not sure if that's an endorsement or just "hey, this exists".

I do wonder about the value of the iPad name, not just because of the feminine hygiene products jokes but because of the amount of times people are going to say iPod and you'll hear iPad and the other way around.

A small thing, I'm sure. I think that the main reason they went with iPad was to prevent someone else using the name.

I won't be buying one anytime soon.

Just wait until the iPed, iPid, iPud and iPyd come out.

iPid sounds worse than iPad, doesn't it?