iPad will fail...

[PAH]

Pah, no wonder you're only a contractor! :O)

I know, I know. I blame the company I keep. Too ltd.

[Spacecadet]

They could put that OS on a football, it's would sell.

If you can bring yourself watch this and you'll see

http://www.apple.com/ipad/features/

But is it as absorbant as other pads on the market?

[Pondlife]

But is it as absorbant as other pads on the market?

The next gen one will have wings.

[Spacecadet]

The next gen one will have wings.

Can i take it rollerskating as well

Opps i meant rolleriskating

[scooterscot]

Sounds incredibly tulipe, and only the most tragic of fanboys or idiots would bother buying one.

http://i.gizmodo.com/5458382/8-thing...about-the-ipad

No Multitasking he say's - It's not a desktop!!

Touch Keyboard - Whose writing a novel here? Did you read the page, it's for internet, photos, e-mail - get a proper computer if you're writing books. This is a extreme portable widget.

No HDMI/HD Video Out - Who gives a tulip?
No Flash - you mean I'l not get those annoying flash advert on every webpage I view, pity....

[voodooflux]

No Multitasking he say's - It's not a desktop!!

I generally like the look of the device, but the lack of multitasking is a drawback. If I want to surf the web or work on a document then I can't use something like Spotify at the same time.

[DimPrawn]

No Multitasking he say's - It's not a desktop!!

Touch Keyboard - Whose writing a novel here? Did you read the page, it's for internet, photos, e-mail - get a proper computer if you're writing books. This is a extreme portable widget.

No HDMI/HD Video Out - Who gives a tulip?
No Flash - you mean I'l not get those annoying flash advert on every webpage I view, pity....

I'll wait for the ipad 3Gs or whatever they call V2 of this. Sounds like it has too many limitations.

Thanks but no thanks.

[AtW]

I'll wait for the ipad 3Gs or whatever they call V2 of this. Sounds like it has too many limitations.

Stop being so funny Dim!

[NickFitz]

Sounds incredibly tulipe, and only the most tragic of fanboys or idiots would bother buying one.

http://i.gizmodo.com/5458382/8-thing...about-the-ipad

While you're quoting Gizmodo, how about http://gizmodo.com/5457757/apple-ipad-first-hands-on:

It's substantial but surprisingly light. Easy to grip. Beautiful. Rigid. Starkly designed. The glass is a little rubbery but it could be my sweaty hands. And it's fasssstttt.

Apple didn't really sell this point, but it's the single biggest benefit of the iPad: speed. It feels at least a generation faster than the iPhone 3GS. Lags and waits are gone, and the OS and apps respond just as quickly as you'd hope. Rotating between portrait and landscape modes, especially, is where this new horsepower manifests in the OS.

Build
Imagine, if you will, a super light unibody MacBook Pro that's smaller, thinner and way, way, way lighter. Or, from a slightly different perspective, think about a bigger iPhone that's been built with unibody construction. The iPad really does feel like some amalgamation of these two product lines from Apple. And, in the hands, it feels great—not too heavy at all.

The screen looked nice, and it's able to display even small text crisply. Touch responds like a dream.

But one point of the build seems odd. It's the Home button. In portrait mode, hitting the Home button is far less natural than on an iPhone because your thumbs naturally rest in the middle of each side of the case (not the bottom). A Kindle-like side Home button may not have been a horrible idea, even if it broke up the stoic minimalism of the case a bit.

iBooks
It's an optical illusion, but just seeing the depth of pages makes the iBook app feel more like a book than a Kindle ever did for me. The text is sharp, and while the screen is bright, it doesn't seem to strains the eyes—but time will tell on that.

Keyboard
Typing in portrait is better than anticipated but still quite a stretch for our average-sized hands, which means that letters like F G and H will take a moderate conditioning for some. What about in landscape mode, sitting flat on the table? Well this is problematic too, as the iPad sort of wobbles. The back is not perfectly flat, meaning your typing surface is never perfectly flat, so the virtual keyboard becomes that much more difficult to use.

Pictures
Pinch, zoom, whatever—like we said, it's fast—the photo app is faster than iPhoto performs on an aging Core2Duo laptop.

Apps
Apps can play in their native resolution, or be 2x uprezzed for the screen. How does it look? An ATV game we tried actually looked pretty good—limited more by its base polygon count than the scaling process itself. Bottom line: it's about as elegant solution as Apple could have offered, even if that graphics won't be razor sharp.

Browsing
Over Wi-Fi, Gizmodo loaded quickly. The 9.7-inch screen is an excellent size for reading the site. You can pinch zoom, but you won't need to. Of course, on such a pretty web browsing experience, not having Flash makes the big, empty video boxes in the middle of a page is pretty disappointing. Put differently, the fatal flaw of Apple's mobile browser has never been more apparent.

[gingerjedi]

I think a lot of people will get one for sofa browsing. Laptops are pretty crap for that really, as demonstrated by me perching a 15 inch dell on me lap right now.

Why is a laptop crap for sofa browsing? I have an old Dell D610 keeping me warm right now, I can't see how a device with functional limitations that also needs to be held beats something that just sits there leaving both hands free to do whatever you want? Whatever that may be...

I think the OP was close but IMO more of a Acorn Electron moment.