How quick we are to dismiss and criticize what we don't understand.  I'm reserving my judgement for when I can play with an iPad in the flesh.  I am as indifferent to its specs as I am to blogger-du-jour rants about its lack of features.  

I thought we had moved past that generation of thinking.  

My decision to buy an iPad is going to be based on whether the device clicks with me when I pick it up in the store.  Whether I "get" it.  Apple is good at getting people to make emotional decisions about technology and that's what's needed here more than long lists of features.  It's a new category of mainstream device - you can't experience it by reading news blogs or watching youtube videos.  Wait until they come out, poke one in the store, talk to people who own one.  This is the kind of device where every owner is going to have a story.