So, a week into this “iPad” thing .. having great fun with it and although some reviewers in the media have labelled it “pointless” I disagree .. lots of capabilities with the AppStore offers and I am very close to ditching my 2.6kg Lenovo T60p for this .. it even tempts me away from my Samsun NC10 net book which itself weighs in at 1.3kg. At 0.7kgs, the iPad wins .. even though it is technically (from a computing platform and performance point of view) a smartphone without the phone.

Applications I use daily to wean me off my Windows laptops are:

+  Flight Control HD (the 3D level is bonkers) – ATC without the risk of loss of life
+  Harbour Master – like Flight Control but with boats)
+  Twitterific – tweet away with a clean UI
+  Ocado – for grocery orders and deliveries in the UK
+  Goodreader – reads most file formats and allows WiFi transfers of files to the iPad avoiding the dreaded USB cable and the appallingly bad user experience that is iTunes (for me anyway)
+  ebay – buy junk from anywhere
+  BBC News & BBC iPlayer (UK only, sorry)
+  The Financial Times
+  epicurious for recipes and food ideas
+  Amazon Kindle
+  LinkedIn – to track all the headhunters that call me every week !
+  XE currency converter – for all my foreign wedges held in Swiss bank accounts

Its getting very close to being a laptop-off and iPad-on kind of existence .. if only I could get on the VPN pilot(s) at work – they are always oversubscribed, then I could take it work too.

Have fun!