iPad?

[NaughtyMonkey]

You can accomplish all of these things with a common laptop.

Yes and much cheaper!

[Rekrab]

Most underwhelming product launch ever.

[jchen76@gmail.com]

Probably need to use external keyboard if you want to do word processing on it, but that's just me. I thinking you will need to doc to a PC/Mac to upload Itunes/MP3's songs to the pad.
No camera, bummer.
I wonder if has expansion slots for external USB devices and memory card reader.

I think I'll stick to my sub $200 Itouch for now.

[Bug Splat]

Most underwhelming product launch ever.

DING DING DING!

I've been saying this for months. Utter crap! All the Fanboys would argue with me saying i don't now anything about it so how can I knock it. Tablets were tried.... for the past 10 years! They sucked and the market failed for them. Anyone that has owned a tablet knows they are uncomfortable to hold, uncomfortable to use, and aside from a very very small nitch market they are worthless compared to a laptop or netbook half the price and 5 times the processor and memory.

These will not sell and I would put money on that. Your typical fanboy will buy anything with an Apple logo but for those sitting and watching on the fence, they will be jumping back over the other side.

[JDay]

Whew...now that it's announced, I can finally admit that I am here in SF working on this event. It's been CIA-level security here for the past several days.

The device is pretty cool, but it is lacking a few things (a built-in webcam would have been a smart idea). It really is a giant iPod Touch, but the price isn't bad considering that a top-of-the-line Touch is $400.

This is going to be a bigger failure than the newton.

[SuperSet]

I'll add this to my kit as soon as I see Travis and Chris using one.

[CA Gun Laws Suck]

I agree with everyone that said this is an oversized Ipod touch. I have a macbook and Ipod touch...So, I don't need one... I can find someother stuff to spend 500+ dollars on. Like finishing my AR! Small market for these but people will buy anything with that APPLE logo on it.

[Cokebottle]

So....basically,it's an oversized iPod touch.

iSaw
iPuked
iHateapple

[Danield]

iGay

[lazyworm]

no thanks. I can buy TWO netbooks with bigger screens for the price of 1 cheapest ipad.

[lehn20]

TOTAL FAIL!

[Rekrab]

This is going to be a bigger failure than the newton.

Apple's die-hard fanbois will keep it alive. They didn't have the same crowd of Ammerica-Apparel wearing, white-earbud listening legion of slavering fanbois back then that they do now.

[CnCFunFactory]

I already have one and it makes phone calls as well, it's called the iPhone.

[darkshier]

Underwhelming. Too expensive, and doesn't do anything special that a cheaper netbook couldn't. Hell, that web browser still can't display flash. Will wait for the next version.

[Mute]

I see a massive fail of Newtonian proportions.