I have a Nook Color and while I love it I realized what I really wanted was a tablet. I still need to jailbreak it so I can have full access to the Android app store and it may help alleviate that feeling. Without the full app store, it's still a decent poormans tablet with a decent built in music player. I read and listened to music on my flight to/from UT and read while there, didn't need to charge the battery until few days after I got home. The books aren't on a solid white background, it's more of a muted beige.

I also bought a highly rated anti-glare screen and while I don't spend a whole lot of time in the sun it's done its job well so far.

Wait, you don't need an internet contract to get connected on an iPad? It's month-to-month, really? Well, as soon as they put a disc drive in that sucker, I'm sold!

A wha?

You know, those 5" floppy disks all the kids these days use.

HEY! You promised you wouldn't tell anyone about that incident.




Oh, 5" floppy DISK. Never mind: forget I said anything.

My interest in an iPad was piqued only when I learned (in this thread) that I don't need to incur another $75 monthly bill for yet another device to be connected to the internet. So, yeah, I'll want a DISC to insert my own media by hand. I charge nothing for that service.

I'm also waiting for it to be a COMPUTER, and not merely a display device. Once the iPad or any decent tablet is also a REAL COMPUTER, I'm buying. Not until then.

Define "REAL COMPUTER"

I'm thinking blinking lights and punch cards - oh and a desire to enslave humans for our own good.

You know, watching a lot of 60's scifi recently, I think google is what the computer was expected to do for us in the future - answer random questions with authoritative responses. Everything else is gravy.