And guess what, that RAM spec is not even listed on the official iPad specs page, LOL.

You'd have to google to find that spec elsewhere.

Why is the the iPad having the same spec as a phone?

The crappiest netbook now have at least 1GB RAM

how can u do anything on 256MB of RAM?!

Woah, that's pretty low, I mean RAM is pretty cheap these days.

Just wait for the iPad 2.

It looks like they just shoved the innards of the iPhone into an iPad and call it a day.

They're doing this so that first-generation buyers can get suckered into the 2nd or 3rd generation iPads.

Yeah, the A4 processor isn't even that great either. Overall the iPad barely outperforms the Nexus One.

Much like the DS and the Wii, the iPad is more about interface, user experience, and power management than brute power. If power is what you need, then Apple will sell you a MacBook Pro.

The iPad is specced like a smartphone because smartphones are now powerful enough to perform about 90% of the functions that people use their computers for. Apple is betting that the improved battery life, interface, and portability of the iPad will offset the fact that a netbook can do 95% of the functions that people use computers for.

The difference is that, iPad is being advertised as netbook replacement?

Wow... my (now unused) 7 year old computer that was shit at the time has 512 MB of RAM.