I’ve been hearing a lot about the iPad lately – but haven’t personally seen one.  I hear a lot of good things – but everyone says the experience is wonderful.  They also say you just have to hold one – which makes it difficult to evaluate from afar. It’s interesting that we reached a point of “computers” that the “experience” is more important than the specs.  It used to be that you looked at the specs carefuly – but with even with processors today it’s hard to tell what’s faster.  Even the difference between an AMD and an Intel can be hard to predict (we have an app at work that we discovered opened 50% faster on an Intel laptop than on an AMD desktop – which still is confusing as welre not sure why…

Maybe computerare getting closer to something like a smartphone purchase.  For a phone it’s hard to write a review as the user experience is so unique – and somewhat personal.  Of course the irony of that statement is that the iPad is based on a phone OS and I wrote most of this post on my Palm Pre.

Have things changed that much – that it’s not about the specs – but about the experience?  Makes it hard to make recommendations – but maybe thatls what the crowd is for…

Some iPad review links:

http://gear.ign.com/articles/108/1082190p1.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaW_K3i7vUs

http://www.gearlive.com/news/article/q110-ipad-review/

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