Going off the Apple website, it cost's £499 for the 32GB Ipad. Just a quick search on google shopping i found this. www.google.co.uk/products/catalo ... 8wIwADgA#p This is far better than the Ipad, has 288GB more storage, is more than twice as fast as the ipad, and a good 4GB of ram. and the ipad doesn't support flash That's why i don't see the big hype surrounding the Ipad and is over a £100 cheaper

Going off the Apple website, it cost's £499 for the 32GB Ipad. Just a quick search on google shopping i found this. www.google.co.uk/products/catalo ... 8wIwADgA#p This is far better than the Ipad, has 288GB more storage, is more than twice as fast as the ipad, and a good 4GB of ram. and the ipad doesn't support flash That's why i don't see the big hype surrounding the Ipad and is over a £100 cheaper

That is also a thing of beauty. I am still yet to be convinced of why I should buy that for nearly £900 when for £300 quid less I could have rlTHATrl which to me would be more functional. Especially when transferring files at home to my PC or say at a college/university.

To put it into perspective - "They're the dog's dangleys!"

Glorified and oversized iPod Touch.

Excellent,
As a silver surfer that really made me smile.

For me it's a lot of money for an "intermediary" device. I have a laptop as it can do all I would need a PC to do. I therefore don't need both.

I understand it is'nt there to replace a laptop but I still won't be handing over that amount of my hard earned. Would be more tempted to sacrifice screen size and get a dell streak. Then at least I wouldn't still need a phone in addition to the i-pad.

As per many Apple proucts it is market leading in what it does and yet agin they have been the first to bring something to the mass market.

Played on it quite a few times, Played being a key part. Can type up work documents and its quite simple, but a laptop/bluetooth keyboard is whats needed if you're going to be doing alot of 'work' based activities. The next one will have a camera in the back and then that's going to be a big development.

Not going to replace laptops but it's a very nifty gadget to have. Would love one but far too expensive.

I just don't get the ipad!!!!
I just don't believe there is a long term market for it.

I'm a huge apple fan but the ipad has no appeal for me whatsoever.

It seems Apple are trying to invent a new place in the market somewhere inbetween a netbook and a smartphone!!!

I understand the intial excitement and many millions of people purchasing them based upon the hype and the clever advertising, but I really don't see where it fits in.

It is not a phone, so lets say i have an iphone, well I already have every single bit of functionality that the ipad has but on a smaller screen.
So I want a larger screen for surfing the web but don't want to carry a laptop round with me, well I can get a netbook for far cheaper than an ipad!

It just seems pointless seeing that on the iphone I can already listen to all my music, surf the net, read ebooks, etc etc, and it is also a phone!

Most people I've spoken to who want an ipad are almost trying to find or make up reasons for why they need one, but ultimately it is a product that is just not required or needed.

All these people saying Netbooks are more functional, are they really? I have used 3 or 4 different Netbooks, I have lasted 10 mins maximum before I've closed the thing in a huff. Slow, buggy, crash prone things that have small keyboards, low resolution screens and fragile bodies. I'm not going to comment on iPads because I've never used one, I know that is going to have to be a pretty bad device to be worst than your average netbook.

I'm not all that convinced by netbooks either to be honest.
At what point does a laptop become to big to take somewhere that it is fine to take a netbook to??

Ive had a Toshiba NB series netbook for about 14 months now, and find it brilliant. Certainly serves the purpose of the IPAD - and more imo. So long as you get one with more than 1gb ram they are fine.

Just get a Macbook or an iPhone and save yourself the hassle.
Macbooks are great and the iPhones are great too, this just has no place in dare i say normal peoples lives.

People who can afford to buy one or two are the only people who will use them, and even then it is only to add to their "image" at work.

i don't like the itunes software that you need to use to add stuff on