Anyway there is plenty of flaming going around about the ipad and it’s comparisons with the ipod or iphone but the reality i happen to think both of those items were needed a lot more then a large touch screen (everyone has a phone and the iphone was revolutionary). Sure it is handy but if push came to shove would you get a ipad over a iphone (if you didnt have a phone, or more so had a feature phone), or would you say if you had a iphone or similar smart phone get this as your main laptop/bigger internet device? — This of course excludes people with a, heaps of $$$ just falling out of their back pocket, and b, fanboys/people who want to look cool with no plan for true data/creative creating.

Do I think my parents would like this… probably until they saw the price tag. I see people saying ‘well stev isnt aiming for g33ks he is aiming for people who brought the ipod touch/iphone’ and I think this is true… I just dont think you need both so they could very well canabalise their own sales. More then anything I am disapointed, i desperately want some movement in the laptop space so that we can get something that is more a long the lines of mobile phone sleep/awake functionality. I want my laptop always connected to a mobile network just like my phone is, but i want it to manage power the same too, when we get this (similar to the proposed ipad 10hr usage/month standby) we will look back and wonder how we lived without it.

/end rant