There will be five or six companies producing Tablet/Pad computers over this year, even M$. At least some of these will have more storage, expandability, and pen functions. Some will have faster processors.
 
The I-Pad is NON-expandable. There are no ports for SD cards or peripherals, and the sync-port is not likely to power any gadgets that an I-Pod touch will not run. The input device is the finger-tip. This will not allow for the same precision as a mouse or a pen. Trying to type something on my I-Pad is strictly hit or miss. I could never write a novel on it or postwork a render.

The I-Pad is for reading books (magazines/newspapers), watching movies (TV), playing games, and listening to movies. Most I-Phone applications will work on it. At least it will have WiFi.

lmk

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