Do you love your IPad?

I bought one (16 gig, 3G) for my wife’s 40th birthday this year.
She had wanted a Kindle, then a Nook for some time

She absolutely loves it. Aside from all the reading she has been doing (via iBooks, Kindle and Barnes&Noble Nook apps), it has completely replaced her PC laptop and my old titanium powerbook.

Paired up with our home WiFi and our MobileMe account it is perfect for checking eMail, organizing events, web surfing, watching movies and tv shows, listening to music and podcasts and looking at photos.

And the 3G is great on the road. We took it on a weekend away and used the gps-enabled google maps all the time, used it as an alarm clock and ambient sounds to sleep by.

My daughter draws on it (with Adobe’s great free app) and plays air hockey and checkers and I read comics on it (with Marvel’s awesome app).

It’s really lovely to not have to be upright at a desk to do your computing all the time.

My heavy-duty graphic design work still gets done on my desktop mac, but everything else has migrated to the iPad.

I can’t say enough about it.

A family that IPad’s together. Stays together. :-)

I love it for light surfing, streaming movies, reading books, checking email, and other apps designed specifically for its bigger screen. And its battery life is stupendous. But for sustained writing, which I do a lot of, it’s not a practical as a laptop or even a netbook. Also, I didn’t buy a 3G model, which I regret.

Will I be able to use it with my Dell Printer?

@cprevite SInce the GPS is google maps does that mean you have to be on the web to use it? It’s not like a regular GPS right? I saw you have to pay monthly to use the 3G feature.

@JLeslie: As of right now, you can not print natively from the iPad (this may change though). In the meantime, there are a few iPad apps that circumvent this and allow printing. They seem a little ham-handed though.

And yes, you have to be on either 3G or WiFi for the gps to work.You do pay monthly for 3G, but unlike the iPhone, there is no contract – you can turn it on or off (from the iPad) from month to month. $25 for 2GB of data and $14.99 for 250 MB.

@cprevite I am really torn. I think I want the Ipad, but then I might just stick with my regular phone, but everyone says they love having a smart phone like a droid or iphone, and I don’t think I can talk myself or my husband into getting both. Too much money out. We will probably get new phones soon.

@JLeslie: In this case, size matters. I can totally understand not getting both iPhone and iPad – way too much cabbage. So you have to think how and where are you gonna use it.

TV and movie watching, eBook reading, surfing the net, game playing…iPad because of the screen size.

You can do these things on the iPhone, but not comfortably in my opinion.

@cprevite That is why I leaned towards the Ipad, the size. I probably will not download books, but watching a movie or surfing the net, checking email, especially when traveling I think I will like the Ipad. But, the phone is much more convenient to carry because of its size. So there it is, that is the biggest confusion, I like the Ipad because of the size, and I don’t like it because of the size, and same for the phone. I think I might need to take the plungs, and just hope I won’t regret my decision, whatever my decision is.