I never owned an apple production until I bought the ipad.

I love it. It really just hit the sweet spot for the right device at the right time. It was a good choice to go with the Cell Phone style operating system. One of the things I love about it is that it is instantly on and ready to rock and rarely crashes. Its fast - never slows down so far (lets see how it does with multitasking in november)

I got the 16GB 3G version just for the GPS - i dont plan to pay AT&T anything for those outrageous rates.

I also like that the battery last forever - they got that right over most laptops this thing churns for 8 hours. A full day.

Sure there are things I dont like which keep me away from apple (forced itunes install to even use the thing) _ i bet the camera left off was to sell to institutions where a camera would be a no no for corporate or government buyers.