"iCommand" .... not getting 10 isn't an option! 

iHype

Lol I will definitely get the tablet however, I probably would get the model without the 3g, seriouly most of the places I go to will more than likely have wifi so 3g doesn't really matter to me as for the size, it will depend on when I become very desprate and how much I have saved up but seriouly $499 US just for the smallest model?!

Maybe a year or two after it comes out, we'll se about the price. As with Apple, maybe even waiting till the third year with the 3rd generation then I'll get it.

But when I do get it, I will fullfill its destiny by changing the screen view to the Star Trek interface LOL.

no thanks, pass!

There are better ways to spend that kind of money.

Mike

Yes! LCARS style on a touch-responsive screen would be so cool.

The marketing of this damn thing is terrible though.  If it's got any kind of functionality, the campaign should be saying how you can use it to work and to play.  Finally you have a device that can keep track of your appointments, let you take notes at a meeting, and won't fry your lap.  You can do a crossword, read webcomics, and defend your civilization which is ever beset by barbarians.

I wouldn't be so sure. This *is* from Apple, after all, they've got something of a track record in that area.

So long as you pay for it. The reason I dislike it not having flash isn't because I love to see the wonderful ads every site throws at me, but because there's lots of games that are perfect time wasters that are made with it and posted all over the net for everyone to enjoy. Yeah, yeah, App Store and all that but that costs money, *real* money, which I wouldn't have to spend had they kept their NIH syndrome in check and put Adobe's little plugin in there.

And then there's the open-source games... Freeciv, Battle for Wesnoth, Nethack even! would've been awesome games to keep on such a device but alas, Apple's closedness bites us again in the rear. Perhaps some willing soul will port 'em for us and sell 'em on the Apple store but again, they'd cost real money too.

Me, I'm keeping my eye on MSI's upcoming Tablet PC, it looks like it'll take everything good about the iPad but combine it with an actual OS worth using.

Apple?

Hahaha, no.

No. I'll stick with an iPod touch.

can anyone explain what is the added value of this product, apart from jobs wallet?

Hitler iPad and MadTV iPad...funny stuff guys.  

A friend who works in tech security looked over the HP tablet pretty closely at CES - not ready for prime time in his opinion, even though Paul Thurott went a little gaga over it.

I'd consider the iPad only if it were capable of running (Windows) business apps & were reasonably priced.  If a competitor could come up with a Windows-capable tablet with a comparable-in-quality touch-glass display at less than $1k, there is a market, particularly in health care.  Power/battery life will be the determining factor even there, though.

As a glorified eReader, probably not.

Nope. I'll stick with my Ipod touch. It does every thing the Ipad does and fits in my pocket.

I have a feeling that most people are going to get the wifi instead of the 3g, seriously are you going to carry your iPad on the bus and using 3g?! Most place you are going to use your ipad, is either home, work, or the library which more than likely have wifi, so I doubt the 3g model is going to be popular

It's only $10 more than a similarly-sized Kindle and can do so much more.  If it's jailbroken, I'll seriously think about getting one.

Nope, my Sony Reader works just fine for me.