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First of all -- I love my iPhone and my daughters and wife love their ipod touches. Apple said it well with "there's an app for that".
Last spring I was discussing netbooks -- which I've never wanted. I get why other people want them, but what I use my laptop for, I need a laptop for, not some 1ghz underpowered version of a laptop.
I said then -- when people were expecting Apple to come out with an answer to the netbook -- that I didn't want a Mac netbook (I'm a windows/linux guy anyway). What I wanted was a large iPod Touch.
That Apple is coming out with one -- and pricing it right at my "combine Christmas, birthday and father's day present" price? Yeah, it's a no brainer. I'll pre order whenever they start accepting them (called our local Apple store the day of the announcement).
It's a toy. It's for fun. It's for couch/bed web surfing, games playing, eBook reading (though I'm not sure it'll replace my iphone for reading books consisting only of text).
It's a no brainer for me -- based on the apps I already know and love on my iphone, ipod touch. And I'm really confident that there will be plenty of iPad specific apps coming soon after that will make it an even MORE nobrainer.
Lee
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