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[url]http://www.apple.com/ipad/[/url]

Is it just an iPhone without the phone?

1. No apps that have not been approved by Apple. By which I mean, you can't download your favorite apps off some web site somewhere. You are strictly limited to the app store.

2. No camera.

3. Microphone, but apparently... no voice calls.

4. eBook reader only through iBookstore. No word about loading your own books/PDFs.

5. Network is GSM-based. That rules out Verizon for your choices.

6. No multitasking. This isn't OSX. It's not a laptop. Or a mini-laptop. Or even, apparently, a netbook. It's the stripped-down iPhone OS.

7. 16 GB for $500. 64 GB for $700. Some are complaining about the price because of the limited functionality.

8. No video out? Does that docking station allow video out, or is it just for the keyboard?

9. Apple doesn't like to sell apps in the app store that duplicate apps it already has. So does that mean that Ray Kurzweil will NOT be able to run the Blio ereader software on this thing because it already has Apple's iBook?

10. no full internet just crappy mobile safari (i know i own a touch)

11. no usb ergo no cheap memory expansion (external HDs)

12. itunes syncing (no drag and droping files from pc to ipad) pain in the ass

13. no webcam, awkward IMing

14. no VLC. i regularly watch movies in my netbook, no way i could wait 3-4 hours to trascode them to stupid apple codec.

15. no Flash. Redundant but without flash you don't have Internet you have a crippled and frustrating experience specially cause it means no streaming FREE PORN.

16. underwhelming specs. 1ghz CPU unknown RAM (doubt it is more than 1gb) unkown GPU . kiddie apps. no full blown OS ergo eternal app store and assorted crapware tie in.

17. The only netbook that cant multitask.

18. I am curious about the battery times. I wonder if that's 'standby' like sleep or active standby. I'm guessing it's more like sleep where it can't receive information over air. And if that's the case, then I wonder if the 10 hours is on but idle or actually using the processor.

19. This seems like it lives in a no-man's land of devices. If you want portable access to do "basic" stuff, like check e-mail, get directions, and things like that, a smart phone is a much better idea. It fits in your pocket and is truly portable.

as for the games? i say WTF? that FPS looked like something from 2003.

TSA, that bastion of morality, issued a security directive which states that starting on Jan 4, 10, anyone flying into the US "traveling from or through nations that are state sponsors of terrorism or other countries of interest will be required to go through enhanced screening," thought "enhanced screening" is not defined. The 14 countries are: Cuba, Iran, Sudan, Syria, Afghanistan, Algeria, Lebanon, Libya, Iraq, Nigeria, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, and Yemen. Fair enough, but what is that going to change? And where is North Korea on the list? Cuba a state sponsoring terrorism? Really? Presonally, I think its really dangerous to be labeling innocent people terrosts just because their country supports terrorism.