Ipad Really? Ipad ?

I really was looking forward to the Apple release of a tablet computer.  What I got was the Ipad. Please insert your favorite tasteless joke here.  I am not an Apple fan,  I had to use 1 with work years ago and it was terrible.  I find them very expensive and not user friendly.  I was hoping for something better from an Apple tablet.  


A PC tablet is a type of laptop with a pivoting screen than can be laid flat so the the screen can be used as a touch screen.  They usually come with a stylus allowing people to write out by hand on the screen instead of having to type. Hp and Toshiba make some of the best ones but they are very expensive.  They are full blown laptops with different sizes and specs.  All to fit into what you need to do. 


Apple came out with its Macbook Air  a few years back.  Apple people love them and many Pc people said they would be great except for the price for what you got in computing power.  I was hoping for an Macbook Air tablet.  I could see a use for a small light laptop with built in Apple support for Itunes, Iphone apps etc.  Touch screen with a great stylus for handwriting.  A good handwriting program that would fit with Apples creative image.  The main reason I was hoping for this was to use to hand write the book I am to lazy type out.  Those of you who know my hand writing please keep the laughing to a small giggle and not a belly laugh.  So as a devout anti Apple I am pc guy, I was hoping for a great new toy to try out (Beth has an Iphone but I do not even own an Ipod).


I hooked my Blackberry browser on Cnet's live blog yesterday and set to refresh as fast as I could.  


I was very disappointed.  


I wanted a tablet I got a big Ipod touch. 


This thing is a joke right?  From the guy who said we do not read anymore we now will read because of a fancy screen?  Its a ebook reader with Itunes and Iphone apps.  The hard drive on it is smaller than some thumb drives. It has no connection for HD.  It has no real software beyond the apps on the Apple store. Iwork is not a real good software suite and if you can only open 1 part of it at a time then its is even worth less. 


Here is an Hp base model tablets specs and costs http://www.shopping.hp.com/webapp/shopping/cto.do.  Here is the spec page from the Ipad.  Tell me which you would rather have for around $850.00.  It is a joke and we need to just laugh at it and go on.