Daniel Coburn

My lovely wife bought me an iPad for Christmas.  Truly a great surprise!

But what are my thoughts on it now that I’ve had it almost a month?

In brief “I love it”.

Why is the bigger question.

1. I’m always doing things on my phone like email, browsing etc. Having the iPad makes life much easier to cope with than before.  The iPad email client is great and allows easy access to my email from anywhere I can get a wifi connection
2. Browsing is “okay”. The iPad, like the iPhone, do not support flash, so it is crippled on many websites.  But after reading several arguments about why they don’t, I’m still on the fence.
3. Size and portability.  It’s so much lighter than a laptop, I really enjoy it and 90% of my work can be done on it, so I’m good there.
4. Programs: I am “thrifty” and hardly buy anything, and I’ve had no reason to with my iPad yet.
5. Games (yes programs): They have some really cool games my kids love and so do I.
6. Netflix: Ok still another program, but it’s great being able to just haul it around and watch whatever I want in the house (Battlestar’s on Netflix now)

Overall I’m very pleased with it.  I love having it at work to help me deal with emails during the day.  I play games with my kids, and it is really convenient.  I hear rumors of the iPad 2 with front and back camera’s, but honestly I have no desire to have those features. I love the one I have.

If my wife reads this, Thanks Hun!