iBooks are the laptop. iPad is the pad.

I would love to see somebody making a phone call by holding that to their ear!

Anyway, it is pretty much a useless device. Yeah, it might be nice for browsing the web and watching videos, but it would be great if it had a keyboard.... Anyway, my next laptop is going to be 16" with an i7 processor and 8GB of RAM, so this is obviously not what I am looking for.

I really don't get who it is meant to appeal to. Netbook users generally use their netbook for work, but this is crap for it unless you use the keyboard dock, which ruins the portability, and you can't use word. iPhone gamers won't care for this, because the appeal of the iPhone as a games console, is that you can just pull it out of your pocket and play rubbish shallow games. For music it is obviously useless, though it might be good for watching videos, but if you want larger screen video then get an archos PMP. So it might be good for showing off photos... but are you really going to spend all this money on that?

As an ereader, it is not as good a the real things, due to the fact that it is backlighted.

What is the problem they are trying to solve? It's not the netbook problem, because that is portable work with internet browsing, whereas this is just work and some rubbish games. It's not the PMP problem, because it is too big. Maybe it is the ereader problem? But the screen is going to prevent it from solving that.

I am perfectly happy to get a Sony Xperia X10, a PSPgo, a Sony Reader and a Nice good Sony Vaio. I suppose their idea is that you have an iPhone, a MacBook Pro at home, and then this in the middle. So from my perspective, it is filling the PSPgo/Sony Reader gap and complimenting the iPhone/X10 browser, but yet it still lacks flash and the size means accelerometer based gaming is going to be even worse. And as I have mentioned, the screen ruins it as an ereader.... So what is it for?

Why buy it again? Just buy your new media for the device and if you really must have your old stuff on the go, you can go through the trouble of ripping it. Seems better than just resigning yourself to never being able to carry your book/video selection on the go.

The price point is a huge surprise to me. I was expecting around $800. At an entry point of $500, it really is in the netbook range. I might bite sooner rather than later.

Btw, netbook, notebook, laptop... what's the difference between those?

Netbook is something small, light and basic to just do word, excel and internet basically

I think notebooks and laptops are basically the same

What I do find funny, is apparantly the best browser ever, lacks flash

How can u have so much money? And u already have PS360 and tons of games.

I had not nearly as much money when I was a student.

Of course Firefox has Flash! Opera does, as well.

To be honest, I don't understand Safari love. It's not widespread, or anything, but it exists. In my opinion, it is a completely useless browser that is, in fact, worse than Internet Explorer, and perhaps one step above Netscape. To my knowledge, there are no features not present in superior browsers, and several key features missing. And without Flash...

That's more of a pipedream then a reality! Though my mum has promised to buy me a new laptop if I make my AAA offer. I will have to fund the phone myself though

So did they announce an Apple bookstore?

Yeah, it's called the iBook Store. I'm not clear on the details of pricing or DRM for these files, I just know that they're in a format called ePub:

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