Just two days ago Apple released their "latest and greatest" to the public. It may be their latest item on the market, though i can strongly say that it is their least ingenuitive product (given what they have already shown the world. Called the Apple iPad, it boasts a 9.7 inch LED backlit screen from which you can touch and tap your way through the web as well as many other features, namely its book-reader function.
It's just too bad that the iPhone or iPod Touch can already do all of this! Well, minus the book-reader. I don't know about society's opinion, but I love sitting down and being able to flip, feel, and smell the pages of the book I am reading. The iPad would essentially take the experience itself out of reading. Also, in my opinion a physical library is much more impressive and practical than any virtual library. How would one expect to lend or borrow a book?
Another complaint I have with this meager-at-best product is storage capacity as it is available in almost anorexic 16GB, a version with onlly32GB, Iand another topping out a still insufficient 64GB. 
You would think that with its supposedly "massive" proccesor that it would come with an atleast adequate space to store your data. Any virtual library that has to share an already over-compressed space with your desired music, movies, applications, and other internet data is not going to be very prestigous at all.
Being very large and fragile, this would not be easy to travel with as it is intended, but you would always have the option of purchasing many dollars worth of gear to go along with your iPad. Also if one was looking to make this their home desktop or personal laptop, they would have to drop more than just the $599 starting price, as many accesories are needed for simple things, such as the use of a keyboard.
With a few improvements the apple iPad could be a great buy, especially for the traveling man or the student who wants everything all at once. But, until that day I would not even consider buying one of these.
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