The iPad base price is $499, will you buy it?

No. The iPad is a tweener that doesn't really have a home in my technology needs. The best that I can think of is that it would replace my netbook.

But that would either require me to type on the on-screen keyboard, or to buy the optional extra one, neither of which makes it more convenient than a netbook. I also use my netbook as a more portable means of downloading camera photos, to free up space on the SD card, that would not be an option with the iPad, without an adapter and card reader, and even it it was, would prevent me from transferring those photos to a USB stick at a later time. To me, it basically looks like to created a really big, expensive iTouch, another device I so far haven't found a need for.

No. I'd rather buy the latest communicator from Nokia.

I'll buy it if its 699$ and under IF it will replace another device of mine. I don't have a Kindle or an Ereader, but I do have and iPhone, so I'm still waiting for the "OMG" moment and make me have to have this.

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