Yes, I can't wait to hear more about that.  Everything about it looks awesome so far even if I don't have a real need for it.

Even the look of it is incredible.

Apple product? No thank you

I'm waiting untill they show what iphone os 4.0 can do.. and the iphone 4G.. rumours of multitasking makes me happy altough jailbreakers already have multitasking on the iphone with multiflow..

Wow, lots of hate for this thing.

When you say "it's just an iPod with a bigger screen", I say "wow! It's an iPod with a bigger screen!" (plus 3G and GPS).

Saying an iPod with a bigger screen, is like saying my 17" laptop is just a netbook with a bigger screen. Why the hell would I want a 17" laptop, when I can just get a netbook?

Who the hell wants to run photoshop on a netbook? Same goes for this. There will be thousands of apps that come out that will be new and useful, that no one would ever want to run on the iPod because the screen is too small. Some things about this that I like:

• It has a much better onscreen keyboard
• It has a public folder system for each app, and when you plug it into a computer, those show of as USB file shares. This means all the apps can share files between each other, and it's easy to transfer data to/from it.
• iTunes will support ePub books, and when you sync with iTunes, those books go into iBooks. So you can get free books on it (something you can't do with a Kindle).
• It has iWorks.
• I can use a real keyboard with it if I chose. 

Aside from all the things it does, the exciting thing, is all the things it will do. Think about what the iPhone was when it came out, and think about what that same device is today. The phone people bought 3 years ago, today is 1000x better then the day they bought it (thanks to the app store).

This will be the same. Apps will come out for it that make it an even more amazing device. It's great that it runs the 150,000 apps that the iPhone runs, but I am more excited about the apps made for this device.

As for multitasking, I am confident OS4.0 will have it. These things already multi task, Apple has just not allowed 3rd party devs to utilize it. The last thing they want, is an app running in the background that you know nothing about, collecting all your data. Security is why they have not turned it on. There are rumors that the next OS has multi tasking.

Also, on a side note, I am shocked that so many people on a gaming site don't like this thing. It's a gammers dream. I have 30 games on my iPhone.

I didn't know Apple was going to open up the file system for the iPad. That's great! Hopefully this change will be applied to other iPhone OS devices, since using file sharing apps for this purpose is a clumsy workaround. I can understand that a lot of people aren't very good at dealing with a file system, but some us would find it really helpful at times.

I think the multitasking restriction has more to do with user experience than with security. All third-party software is vetted by Apple, after all. The problem is that too many people do a lousy job of managing multiple program. If a background process kills performance in the foreground app or sucks up battery life, people are going to blame Apple rather than their own inability to manage the phone's limited resources.

I understand that some other smartphones use an app that the user can run to kill background processes. I sincerely hope that Apple's solution is more elegant than that, because that just won't work for the mass market.

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 :)

I agree that the iPad will probably make the ultimate couch computer.

Now stop being so excited. I'm trying to save money instead of buying new gadgets.

sorry but the iPad (worst name ever) it is a XL iPod touch
is an overpriced device with no flash support no camera and no upgradable memory
it is a cool concept but just like the 1st generation of the iPhone you should wait for the 2nd generation

oh and i forgot to mention NO WIDESCREEN (thats just terrible for movie viewing)
sorry but apple miss the mark this time

I don't get why this is something people complain about.

I have a 30" 2560x1600 display that I paid $1,500 for a few years ago. It's nothing more then an XL 15" 1024x768 monitor, but everyone seems to think it's a cool thing to own.

The Kendel DX is only $10 less then an iPad, and people say "that thing is cool" when they see it, and the cool thing about it is it's just a kendel with a bigger screen.

This is a larger version of a very cool thing, and people don't see it as better.. just bigger. Not sure why people are so against it.

The Courier is a concept device. It will never come to market. Here is some more info however, if your interested.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Courier