Who else just bought an iPad?

[TheRealMafoo]

yea, it's great. It's not a complete open file system, but it's good enough for what most everyone wants. Each app developer will be allowed to create a shared folder for there app. That folder is exposed to the user. One of the cool things, is all the files in those shared folders are then searchable with the iPads search tool (spotlight). So while now I can search all the Apple apps well, going forward all my books, documents, facebook friends, items I barcode scanned, tweets, IM's, and so forth, will be searchable with the same tool. It's going to be great.

Plus I like the new touch interface. Email will be much better to read with it. This website will be much better to browse. When you want to edit a word document, you edit in place. All the menus will be context based, and not just always everywhere. If I am in Pages, and I click on an image, I get all the controls I need for an image. If I click on a graph, I get all the controls I need for a graph. The controls show up where I click, and not across the top of the screen. It's a much more natural way of doing things.

The size helps a lot. The notepad will be a notepad, not some dinky thing trying to take the place of a notepad. Sitting a reading a book will feel like your reading a book, and not that your reading a pdf file on a computer.

In my opinion, this thing is the next step in computing. Taking what's so great about the App store and a closed computing environment, and moving it into a market where you can do so much more then a cell phone will allow.

Things I will be doing with it is:

Taking notes in meetings
Listening to music
watching movies on the plane, or in the car (when I am not driving)
Browsing the web on my living room
IM with my wife while at work (My office has blocked IM for security reasons)
Checking and updating facebook
reading books

For everyone on of those things (aside from IM), if I had a iPad, Netbook, and Laptop sitting on the table next to each other, I would reach for the iPad to complete my task.

For things that I would want to do on a Laptop (ripp a movie, run Visual Studio, Photoshop), I would do on a laptop.

For the other 90% of my time... iPad is going to take it's place. Right now I am in the kitchen, sitting on a chair with my laptop on the island. Most of the time when I post, that's where I am. Going forward, i will be sitting in the living room in my leather Lazyboy chair. That, will be much better I think :)