I'm really starting to want an iPad, although I like my laptop, the battery life sucks and I just want to leave it at my desk for the most part and use the iPad.
I think the last thing keeping me from buying is wondering how quickly it will become dated...if 4G iPhones are coming soon, can a 4G iPad be far behind? Anyone have any thoughts on this?
I had this concern today. You've got to expect that in a year or 2 there will be 4G networks and 4G iPads. That said, I guess if you sit around and wait about technology becoming outdated, you'll never buy anything.90% of my usage is at home on my wifi, so it's a non-issue in that sense. For the time on the road, I can live with 3G. Sure, it won't be as fast as 4G, but I'll at least get a few years' worth of use before I want/need to upgrade for something else.
The phenomenon you are describing is exactly what's happened to me. I carry this thing with me all over the apartment all the time. I rarely, if ever, sit down at the computer desk and use the iMac. I sit 3 feet from the Macbook and don't bother opening that either. My iPad is just such a pleasure to use, I don't need or want anything else.
There are exceptions. Like this morning I tried to edit an eBay listing on the eBay site and couldn't. I know there's an eBay app, but I haven't bothered with it yet. May have to. Point being that every now and then, at least as of May 2010, you will need to switch on to a "real" computer to accomplish some task. Most of that I do through iTeleport -- like last night, I was downloading some torrent stuff from my iMac. I would use the iTeleport app to access the iMac desktop, set it to download some more stuff, then continue on with whatever I was doing, all from the comfort of my couch. The more I use it, the more adept I'm getting. Probably not "magical," but a pretty awesome device.
