I'm not sure about it.
It seems to be aimed at the consumer market by being focussed heavily on music, books, video etc.
Sure, some will consider the larger screen to be handy for video, but if I'm going to watch a film I want it on at least 42 inches. Music, well it won't do anything that an iPhone won't do at a fraction of the size.
I was disappointed that it doesn't have the proper Mac OS because that will limit it's usefulness.
It may have a use if the iWork app files are one hundred percent, feature for feature, compatible with Office. Otherwise what's the point in producing documents if the people you email them to can't read them properly.
As for a drawing package, I think you can forget it. I reckon that the target market for the iPad aren't the sort of people who would want Illustrator and therefore there won't be enough volume for Adobe to want to get involved. Let's face it, Corel can't even be @rsed to produce a Mac OS desktop version of Draw.
And even if they do, install copies of Microsoft Office and Illustrator, add your music, video and photo files, and how much disc space will you be left with for work files? Not much. Sure, you can keep files on an internet server, but that's only of any use if you are in range of wi-fi, as the geezer who tried to give us a presentation at the bike club last night found out, to the amusement of his audience. Internet servers are brilliant if you live in Cupertino, but out here in the rest of the world, not so good.
Obviously there's lots more to find out, and I hope to be proved wrong, but it looks to me that, for work purposes, the iPad is not a substitute for a laptop.
Over to you Jason. Let's see you get that one past the wife.
