iPad

Today Apple released their brand new iPad which is Apple's first Tablet Notebook thing... or, a really big iPod Touch.

This sleek looking piece of hardware features:

iPhone/iPod Touch Apps

WiFi 802.11n

Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR

Accelerometer & Compass

Speaker

Microphone

30-pin iPod connector

1GHz Apple A4 Chip

9.7 inch display (1024 x 768 pixel resolution at 132 pixels per inch)

Full capacity multi touch screen

10 hours of battery life, over a month of standby

0.5 inches thick

1.5 lbs

The more expensive model features:

3G internet:

$14.99 for 250mb data

$29.99 for unlimited

GPS

Pricing chart looks like this:

	16 GB	32 GB	64 GB
Wi-Fi	$499	$599	$699
Wi-Fi + 3G	$629	$729	$829

Which isn't too bad I guess....

But what doesn't it have? A camera, for one. A phone, for another. Sure it has a bigger screen but really what your buying is a huge iPod touch. I my opinion this thing could be cool, VERY cool. The only thing that's holding it back right now is it's lack of camera and ability to make calls. Until it can do that, it's really only an iPod touch. Granted an iPod Touch with a way bigger screen and way better computer inside.

It will be amazing for surfing the internet away from home or on vacation and business trips. Doing anything on line will be great with it. Looking at photos, watching movies (that you've downloaded from itunes store and have paid for), using the apps that your used to, all these things will be made... bigger on the iPad. And that could be all you really need.

What I really want is to get my hands on one of these and see first hand if it feels like my iPhone or something new. If I was given one of these I would probably use the hell out of it, but I'm not sure it would be a better choice over a regular macbook or macbook pro. If all you do is surf the web, play games, send emails, update facebook, and any number of things that don't require specific programs on your computer, this is probably for you. I, personally, like to be able to run Adobe programs, DVD's, web editing software and any other of my numerous apps on my computer, not to mention video chatting.

I love you apple, but what I really wanted was something new with the iPhone... oh well, maybe February.