I'm tired of all the comments about no USB ports on the iPad.
You can hook up a wireless keyboard, your camera and musical instruments to the ipad, sure USB connectivity for other devices could be useful, but apart from transferring files, it is hardly critical for a tablet.
@neiro, you are implying that the iphone wasn't cool? It was a bloody revelation, and nearly every phone has copied it since. It was far from perfect, but it changed an entire industry, and everyone else has been scrambling to make a similar device since.
Sure, there were tablets before the iPad, I used fujitsu tablet PCs for the last 10 years, and they were the undisputed leader, but they required a stylus, had relatively short battery life and were heavy.
Apple made a truly lightweight, ultra responsive tablet with 7-10hours of battery life, and priced it extremely low.
For all the haters that say how overpriced it is, where is the competition?? Show me all the 10" tablets that are as lightweight, as responsive, as good a touchscreen and display that are cheaper than the ipad? They have all had a year to come up with one, so where are they?
Oh right, there aren't any. The iPad is not overpriced, otherwise there would be a flood of better specced, cheaper ones from competitors, and there simply isn't.
And for god sake grow up and get over the name.