My opinion?

iPads are useless, underpowered expensive pieces of silicon. At least Apple's iMac and Macbook lines of computers can *do* something. The iPad runs the same Operating System as the iPhone, which severely limits it's capabilities as any form of a real computer, which is what some people are expecting out of it. If they would at least put OS X on it, it might be useful.

It is a neat gadget, but I wouldn't use it for anything serious.