Starts at $400 and goes up in price, starts with WiFi service and goes up in cost to 3G. And online and data service is EXTRA. My ASUS netbook was just over $300 and the built-in tuner picks up free web connections everywhere it goes.
No camera, but it plays music. My ASUS does both.
No built-in CD/DVD drive for the iPad; my ASUS has a slot for a memory card and USB ports for outboard drives.
The iPad's a book reader and it shows pictures and videos, but I learned to read books without pictures when I was five years old. My "old fashioned" Kindle works just fine for book reading and books there are cheaper than the iPad.
iPad makes phone calls, but so does my cell phone, that fits in my shirt pocket. Yes, size is an issue. And my $300 ASUS can make international phone calls with Skype.
The iPad runs business software that's as easy to operate as any Apple ap, but, just like any Apple ap, the cost is extra, and it's not just a buck. Oh, and, it's, uh, Green. Safe electronic components and all. Yay! My ASUS can run (and does) free PC-based OpenOffice aps, that use the same file standards as MSOffice.
Hey, I love new tech and all that it avails, but I can't see what using my old Motorola Razr cell phone and ASUS netbook (that slips easily into my HappyCamper Sack, with my .380 BUG) with a WiFi hookup can do that's anything less than the iPad. And cheaper.
The iPad looks like something from 1998.
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