One nice thing I've really come to appreciate from my iPad is that I never have to wait for it to start up. Just flip the cover and it's on and connected.

Well, i would pay a little more, but if im going to drop 500 for something i may as well bite the bullet and get a nice laptop. I only want to drop a few bills for it right now. I am not going to use my tablet for music and what not. i already have an ipod touch for my music. Like i said, i mostly want it just for late night surfing and netflix.

im not getting a cheap laptop, but all the software on there, is easily removed or disabled. Thats not an issue.

I just dont know if its the Kindle of the Nook yet.

If you're not interested in an iPad, you might have better luck in these threads:

Anyone Getting a Kindle Fire?
Nook VS Kindle
The Android Tablet Watch Thread

Yup. I timed myself at 5 seconds from power button to CP loaded the other day on my Prime. It's glorious (though I wish I could type better on it without getting the keyboard).

I was to lazy to look plus i was multi tasking at the time.

Will Apple lower the price on the Ipad 2's once the Ipad3 comes out??



http://www.technewsworld.com/story/74395.html



Aside from hardware improvements expected to be evolutionary at best, pricing could be one of the more interesting revelations coming out of an iPad 3 launch, especially if Apple decides to continue selling the iPad 2, according to NPD Group Analyst Stephen Baker.

"Most analysts expect that Apple will keep the iPad 2 in the market at a lower price," he told MacNewsWorld.

"There's demand at the price points below (US)$500, which is what Apple is selling the iPad for now," he continued. "Apple is nothing if not aggressive to extend their product line when they think the time is right."

If Apple kept the iPad 2 alive and started selling it at a lower price, it would surprise Bajarin. "We have seen no indication of that," he said.

Nevertheless, Apple's success at keeping the iPhone 4 alive while introducing the new 4S may be a temptation to repeat the tactic for the iPad. "It's a marvel to me that Apple's able to sell old products, as it did with the 3GS and 4, and gain market share," Gartner (NYSE: IT) Vice President for Mobile Computing Ken Dulaney told MacNewsWorld

LOL.... the iPad competition is heating up now....

The Action Pad is now available.... from the Asian Steve Jobs angel....

http://i.imgur.com/RoYuh.jpg

The first 10 pages of this thread are comedy gold.

The fail per page quotient is pretty high.

I remember even back them people kept comparing them to e-readers...and I was like wtf why? That isn't the same thing.

Heh. My predictions of mass adoption in e-venture/education instead of personal usage were off for sure. They've been hugely successful in both.

Heh, congrats to Apple. They basically invented a market that didn't exist. Now no one can live without a tablet it seems.

However, you nailed the education market.

Rumors of 3 are heating up...