Having thought about it (with a sinusitis muddled brain, so apologies for train of thought being addled... And crap spelling too!)

This thing is a turkey. I've heard people say, "Netbook makers should be quaking in their shoes". Why?

Okay, let's see if they should. Take my Samsung NC10 - it's fairly typical of netbooks.

Cost - 300 euro. Three USB ports. 160 gb hard drive, wireless N and 2 gigs of ram. (Those last two bits cost me 30 euro extra, so 330 in all). I can plug in an optical drive if needs be too; so I have freedom of choice.

It can run Windows 7 and OSX *flawlessly* (if not legally :) ), is not locked into the App store and can multitask on a single processor.

Let's see the iPad. So, USB? No. Storage? Samsung beats it hands down, especially for the price. Can install what I want, from any vendor/supplier on the iPad? No. Camera? No. But they'll bring video/photo/whatever editing sofware to it! So what? Doesn't have the granularity of control for fine video editing, I can say that for sure. I'd imagine photo editing would be pretty bad too, but I remain open to seeing it first.

It does have a cool touch screen! But it's really badly handicapped by all of those other 'features'. And if I want to type? More than an e-mail/text? Realistically? I've to plug in a keyboard. So, it's an over priced, bloated netbook. That can't do as much as a regular netbook. Oh, and my netbook screen doesn't have a load of smudged finger prints on it. If this were made by Microsoft, certain people would cry "rubbish!"...

This thing is the Emperor's New Clothes. It's lame, and shame on Steve Jobs. This thing is indefensible, I'm sorry to say. Many have compared the iPhone to a computer in your pocket, but we all really know its limitations. It's obvious it doesn't scale...

Oh, and Bart, you know I love my netbook, so John is not the only one! As do several of your work colleagues! (I work in the same place, so there!)