Live Long and Prosper!
oh dear, watched too much Star Trek recently!

Plus the name looks a little too similar to iPod – could easily get mixed up me thinks!
Here’s a good post:
Bruce Watson @ Daily Finance – With iPad Sounding Like a Feminine Hygiene Product, Will the Jokes Ever Stop

Another big problem I have with it is the way Safari can’t handle flash. On the iPod Touch and the iPhone the browser isn’t a full version – which you can accept – you won’t be doing a huge amount of browsing on an iPhone. But on a product where one of it’s primary functions is to browse, you would think that they would have put the full version of Safari on it – grrr!!

There are loads of articles out there now with things people hate about this product, most of which I don’t think really warrant being pissed about.
Gizmodo – 8 Things That Suck About The iPad
Cnet News – 10 Reasons Netbooks Still Do Better Than iPad

Anyway, none of this means I won’t buy one – I’ll just buy the cheapest wifi model and upgrade in a couple of years time to the 3G model, when hopefully the device itself willbe better, and so will the 3G networks. I just wanna pretend like I’m Captain Picard – prodding away at my little touchscreen clipboard thing! God I’m so sad!!

I keep thinking they’re gonna say – ” Ha ha – you thought we were gonna call it the iPad – we’re kidding – it’s gonna be the iSlate!”.  hmmmmmm…wishful thinking