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Hmm. Given your criteria, and other devices. I'm surprised you even considered the iPad. You knew the dimensions before you even saw it, it's not full letter or A4 size. And I guess I misunderstood the amount of eyestrain you said you had.
Everyone is different. I've been staring at green screens since the early 70's and still have 20/20. Since I'm on the road 5 days a week, having a portable device with good battery life is important to me. Light weight, instant on and a beautiful screen are great selling points on the iPad. I couldn't my home theater with me and I already have one laptop, that due to security restrictions can't contain any of my personal files. I did the two laptop thing for a few years then a netbook for a while. The iPad took a good weight off my shoulder and is honestly far more useful to me than my netbook ever was, mostly because of the boot time and slowness of a full fledged OS (I've tried Windows, Linux and Hackintosh on it). Regardless of the screen size, movies look great on it and it's larger Than my iPhone's screen. I even have a pair of MyVu glasses and while they work fine it was yet another thing to lug around, ugh.
Well anyway, as you said, everyones milage varies. My iPad already has some 15k miles in 2 weeks!
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