Ummmm until Apple starts making iPads and iPhones in hot pink I am NOT interested.

I would rather the HP tablet

Wow and you can buy a netbook now and watch anything on it and do the exact same thing. Or if you have the knowhow stream your feeds from your main system with mulitple tuner cards in it to your netbook. But yes it isn't shiny, doesn't have the same exact amount of flash memory the initial netbooks had 2 some years ago, doesn't have that apple logo on it and isn't overhyped yet all they come up with is a large ipod touch. 2 some years and that is all they could come up with? Still no access to the file system, no expansion port for even a sd card, still well anything that was lacking from the iphone/touch since launch is still lacking in this.

Don't get me wrong I like the virtual keyboard on my touch but everything else about it I still regret buying it. Can't export simple text files from your notepad, i mean really is it that hard?? Also wonder if the horrid safari browser will still choke and crash on websites on the ipad at this date also.

For what it's worth we have been looking to buy a Netbook for use around the living room and the iPad fits our needs far better than a netbook.

It would mostly be used as a web-browsing tool and the clamshell trackpad on a netbook is horrible for web-browsing, especially with such a tiny screen. Moving up to a bigger screen just means that you're lugging around a laptop around the house which is what we do now and hate (handing from person to person is always a balance/hold circus).

The reason I mention it here is because what I find myself doing is if my wife is watching something indigestible on TV I often start up a second show on teh computer with headphones.

So we may very well be using the iPad for TV-watching.

Now that Apple has it's giany iPod Touch to sell to idiot Apple fanboys with too much money and not enough sense, the industry will get to making touchscreen netbook tablets for $499 or less, and then people who understand what a computer is and how to use it will be able to watch whatever they want, in whatever form they want, wherever in their house/car/boat/train/plane/hotel room/wide world of the outdoors they happen to be.

Not really interested in another walled garden device that is crippled and overpriced. I'll use my netbook & kindle for everything the iTampon can do and more until someone develops a decent low-priced net-tablet.

Joel: I'll disagree with the hoi poloi here. Yours is the first moderately compelling use I've seen for this device that otherwise seems to be devoid of compelling uses. I don't want a TV in my bedroom, and if this can pull from my network recordings that I've transferred off my Tivo, its a decent alternative. Thanks!

No it won't. Now, those Tegra 2 Android Tablets that output 1080p are a whole other story.

Wouldn't a netbook do all this? And at @ 300$$, a better deal, and no apps to purchase!

No Hulu, No NetFlix, most p2p video content is not supported either.

I'm not sure how this device is supposed to change our viewing habits when it doesn't support the video I want to watch in the first place.

Are you freakin' kidding me?

If folks haven't made a "change to the way we watch TV" by watching it on their iPods, Droids, Archos, Zune, etc etc etc. then this overgrown iTouch isn't going to change squat either!

Jeesh, it doesn't "change" anything. It is an iPod Touch with a bigger screen...Oh, and it is priced at about the same level as a laptop....which folks also use to watch TV.

I don't know that I have ever seen a more pointless device come out of Apple....I was blown away by the silly name, and the clunky look of it...then when there was no multi-tasking, or camera, or expansion ports.....jeesh...made me kinda sad actually.

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