My aunt & uncle would use an iPad, my grandma doesn’t use her laptop for anything more that solitaire, online banking, and checking emails for photos of her great grandkids, so she’s another perfect potential iPad user. Only my mom uses Excel sometimes, which she can do with Numbers. I have a desktop computer and use every ounce of it.. I don’t use my laptop anymore except for checking email and it’s become a hassle, it’s way too heavy and the battery dies too quickly; I’d much rather have an iPad.

Once the developers start playing with it, they’ll start making killer apps, and the iPad (and clones) will become the norm for most people.

(where the hell is the webcam though!!!!!)

I’m a university lecturer, and I’m planning on porting all my teaching documents to Pages on the iPad, but I will need to be able to print easily. I’m also going to make custom apps to replace my current marking and feedback forms… those must be printable. With that ability, I can see the iPad becoming invaluable in this environment – but with no serious printing solution this could be the first real ‘dropped ball’. I can live without Flash, but I can’t not give students and other staff printed documents.

The logical and real-world-ideal way would be to use a basic laser printer driver (CUPS?) and print across wifi networks. Bluetooth is fiddly and doesn’t really seem to be a mainstream part of Apple’s vision, but wifi absolutely is. Apple, please don’t make me rely on running a print server app (third-party or otherwise) on my Mac just to be able to print! I’m not even sure that would work on the university network anyway.