My iPad is here!

[SoupDragon]

I'm not really touch typing I'm not very good at it. I keep hitting n instead of the space bar but I think you make mistakes when using a different keyboard to the one you're used to anyway.

Yes, I'm typing onto the screen and will use it mostly for MNing in the kitchen! and watching films on/ playing games to entertain small children. I don't need the full functionality of a laptop.

Is it beautiful? Properly awesomely beautiful?

When I got my Macbook I sat there for hours, open-mouthed, just staring in wonderment

Maybe I'll get an iphone. I don't know. I hate dh's, it's so present

You can type properly with all the right fish fingers.

It's lovely.

It's so thin! And sleek and pretty...

I vaguely understood Networkguy.

I'm grinning SD!

I am living vicariously though your ipad happiness

hmm.
how much are they?

through your Ipad happiness

So you can play DVDs on it, or do you download them? Perhaps you do? Will a big noisy fan go off like it does on my laptop?

Will you read books on it?

It's like a laptop lite - do you think? If you don't need a full laptop you use that for everything else, like emails and the internet.

ooh oooh. I bet it's pretty

i find typing hard as oyu know but on the iphone even WORSE

I cant stop stroking it. Thing is, the children want to play with it and the whole point was that I could use it whilst they are on my main PC!

the android thing is where an ipad would become essential for me.

I have an android phone, and that would clinch the deal for an ipad, imo.

I find typing on dh's iphone v irritating, makes me think I have potato fingers rather than sleek, delicate digits

oh god, get them OFF it. It's YOURS. Make this clear from day one Soupy

What is android please?

This is better than the iphone for typing. MUCH better.

I had to decode the DVD then convert it to the format for iTunes. I just used free software and it did the trick.

Are there still Adobe acrobat (or whatever it's called) issues?

Oh, I've not let them play on it. Think of the sticky fingers!

the google OPerating system.

it's installed on some smartphones - mostly the ones that now rival iphones, like htc, nexus, etc

I have an htc phone, and, imo, it's better than an iphone. looks pretty similar, acts pretty similar, but just has the edge on a few things (more htings if you are a proper geek, i expect)

android do lag behind on apps, though. but then I have my itouch, when I canwrench it away form dd1

I would imagine so. I think this is just a big iPod touch really.

Ive just downloaded a lovely app that creates notebooks for you to write things in with your finger or an iPad stylus.

I assume there are still flash issues.

you can watch iplayer on itouch, so assue you can on ipad.

flash is another point where android wins out - just anounced the flash update

Yes, they're still being gits about flash IIRC.

I think the iPad loads pages quicker than an iPhone.

oh my god to the notebook app with stylus. oh my god. that's amazing

How is it to hold? I was wondering if they would be awkward if lying in bed or the sofa.
Ahhh why didn't I order one when I had the chance. [note to self do NOT take advice from DH again]

What's the point of them? Seriously, I don't get it.

I shall try lounging on the sofa with it later. You can lock the screen orientation so it doesn't flip when your lying down.