My iPad is here!

[SoupDragon]

You're not coping I suspect, just deluding yourself.

So are you mumsnetting on your ipad, Soupy?

and one more for luck

What the difference (apart from size clearly) between one of these and an ipod touch?

Um... I suspect size is pretty much it. Unless you go for a 3G version.

I am actually MNing from the PC as I am learning how to rip DVDs into iTunes compatible files. and I don't want to get fingerprints on the iPad.

Still no ipad mutter.

Did you get a screen protector for yours, Soupy? I have one for my iphone but can't decide if it's worth having one for the ipad.

I did and, like the one for my iPhone, I screwed it up and now have a fluffy crumpled bit of plastic film. Still, I made the effort...

I may take it into an Apple store and beg them to put one on for me.

For ripping dvds I can recommend video. Brilliant and has cope with everything I've thrown at it except Disney stuff (notoriously scummy when it comes to copying stuff) and even trunk doable I reckon, its just I use DVD decrypt, which is out of date...

Tell me more about iPad. I want one, but it will end up being dd1's, for school (she currently has my itouch but would find iPad so much easier - SN, so uses it for AAC.)

Still, I suppose I'd get my itouch back...

Sorry, can recommend videora. Phone keeps auto correcting...

I use Handbrake - is also very good.

I pre-ordered just at the moment they changed shipping date to 7th June. I can't wait any longer!

I keep looking at the order status to see if it has miraculously been sent earlier than that, but no luck.

3.41pm The bastards.

Coming back from school with the kids, see TNT lorry parked up front ready to leave. I pelt down the road, laden down with kids' school bags yelling "I'M HERE I'M HERE DON'T GO!" and looking a right idiot.

Got my ipad though

(I haven't actually opened the parcel yet, I logged on here first to tell you. how sad is that)

LOL! I would have run up to the TNT van like a loony too

I've successfully ripped a DVD using DVD Decrypter and Vedora. Fab. It'll keep DD entertained in airports this summer.

That, ime, is the absolute best thing about iTouches.

Got mine last summer for the airport/plane journey (to Oz ) - it kept both girls totally absorbed with videos, apps, etc. Couldn't believe how effective, tbh.

hmm, dh off to USA next week, might just take a look at exchange rates etc

I'm in love!

What's the keypad like? Is it easy to use?
What's it like to hold in your hands - too big? Is it comfortable, would you sit with it in a chair and read it? Could you sit in a chair and read it and then type on it? Or does it need to be on a table?

I have so many questions....

I'm using it at the kitchen table to MN. I've got the proper Apple case which has propped it at a nice angle to type portrait. The keys are probably full sized at this orientation it's not improved my typing! Irritating that the numbers and all the extra character aren't shown though.

It's heavier than a book sound have to have it propped on something to read i think.

So, not sound! Bloody auto correct.

Ah okay, thanks SD

so it's sitting propped up portrait, and you are typing straight onto the screen? Are you touch typing?

ooh it's all very interesting, I want to know more things.

What do you think you'll use it for mostly?

I mean could you comfortably touch type, or does it call for single finger prodding? Like on an iphone?

ooh tell me what you're doing NOW

I saw they used an iPad when they announced the new version of Android at the Google conference, because they can make the phone act like a wi-fi hotspot to share the internet connection with the iPad (locked from use on iPhones at present).

ah now dh said i could have one for birthday
but id rather go on hol instead.
am vair pleased with iphone

I actually didn't understand a word of network guy's post