I voted “PC User - No” because this was not an option.
Such passion!
No worries on that score. I get where you are coming from. Apple has potential, but the iPad is not going to be the one for me, that’s all. Maybe someday they will get me what I want. 
The iPad has a 1024x768 IPS screen though, which has a far better view angle and color than any <$1000 notebook or netbook. My Fujitsu P1630 tablet PC has a comparable screen (8.9" 1280x768, either PVA or IPS - not sure which, but definitely better than TN), but that it has a list price of $1900.
My laptop has a 1366X768 LED-backlit LCD. Its 16:9 aspect ratio is more suited to watching movies than the iPad’s 4:3. Don’t know how much better the IPS screen is but really I doubt the advantages outweigh the other problems with the device for movie watching. I think the iPad will work great for watching short videos especially with interactive elements but really I can’t imagine holding it for a couple of hours to watch a movie. They should at least have put a built-in stand on the device.
I’m sure the stand will be available as an accessory at a nearby Apple Store for the low low price of $79.99.
If it ever gets a camera for videoconferencing, I’ll get one for my parents so my dad can sit in his easychair and talk to me from California. But otherwise, I’m not feeling it. And I’m Apple everything.
I’ll get one.
Sure, it’s too big to just walk everywhere with.
And sure, it’s too small, weak, and locked up for when you don’t need to walk around (riding trains for example).
But it fits nicely into those times when you
I’m full of it.
“Locked down” in the sense that the only software you can install on it is is what’s approved by Apple and made available through them.
If I have a super cool tablet with multitouch and WiFi, one of the things that I know I’ll want to do with it is use it as a media browser that can also be used as an overkill remote to stream movies from my file server to my TV while my ass is on the couch. I don’t want to wait for some developer to foresee my need, come up with something that works exactly as I want it to, go through the licensing process with Apple, and be approved.
I recognize that the mass desire for this may not be sufficient to motivate the development of an App on this platform, so I think it will probably make sense to wait for an affordable device with similar functionality which isn’t yoked to Apple. I don’t think it’ll be a long wait.
After giving my answer, I did realize there might be one thing that might make me wind up considering it.
Will it be able to be jailbroken? That will eliminate a lot of the problems I see with it. It’s the only reason I considered actually getting an iPhone.
If it enables flash, and the cost comes down and can be jailbroken, I might consider the new device. It probably won’t be my next computer purchase, though. And, seeing as long as I wait between computer purchases, that may mean it takes a long time.
No thanks. A laptop is much more functional for me. They can keep the maxi pad. uh I-Pad 
I do enjoy the flowcharts:
If it was cheap (like $50 Canadian), I’d buy one. Otherwise, no. (Because I’m too cheap.)
The case works as a stand, a pretty good one I think from the pics, for the insanely low price of $39.00!
Pretty case
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Thanks. Maybe for people like me, non-geeks, that’s a good thing. I like it for the same reasons I like my iPhone, it’s pretty and it works very good. What goes on behind that shiny glass is none of my business. I’d only break something. 
For example, I haven’t the slightest why 3Gs isn’t available on the iPad, and I know it works better than 3G did on my old iPhone.
Me happy!
BTW; my advanced age (65) may be a factor.
Mr. fire hydrant aside, what doesn’t work on the iPad?
Make that Voyager. Sorry
Uh, go ahead. Apple doesn’t lock down what developers can put on their own iPads, you know. You only have to play the App Store games if you want to distribute to others.
And while I keep hearing a neverending stream of “my app was rejected” complaints from the developer community, they all seem to be apps that you’d pretty much expect to be rejected: copyright infringements, sex apps, zit popping apps, and the like – stuff you’d never get a mainstream store (Walmart, Target, whatever) to carry if it were boxable, either. Apparently a couple hundred thousand folks have managed to navigate Apple’s “lockdown” without problem – there are more apps available for the iPhone now than for all the other smartphone platforms combined.
I’m not fond of the App store being the only method of widespread distribution, but frankly it’s hard to get much past “mildly irked,” given that I can pretty much go out and get whatever I want. It’s way less irritating to me than, say, the fragmentation of the Android OS into a jillion little firmware-locked versions, pretty much guaranteeing that apps can’t be easily moved from one phone to another, even if the hardware were standardized enough to actually expect to write an app that would run everywhere. If the cost of solving that problem is a little bit of lockdown, I’ll pay it.
I was in line at the Palo Alto Apple Store. I missed Steve Jobs by an hour! But I’m in the Mercury News slide show: