Bill wrote:

IIRC, It doesn't even have a USB port.

Yes, the iPad is refreshingly free from a USB port, and although it does
connect to a USB port on your computer, I do not miss the lack of a
dedicated USB port in the slightest.

There is an adapter called the Camera Connection Kit which gives some extra
USB connectivity for cameras, SD cards, keyboards, and a few other devices:

http://www.maclife.com/article/featu...connection_kit

The shallow minded bitch about the lack of bells and whistles, and **** and
moan about the closed architecture, without understanding that the trade
off is a robust device that will give you ten hours of use without a
battery charge, unmatched portability, applications for every conceivable
pursuit/task, an intuitive interface, and a virtually trouble free OS
architecture, requiring no technical expertise whatsoever to be productive,
that you can carry in one hand, all day, every day.

While the current iPad/tablet technology does not yet take the place of the
traditional computing environment, it is unmatched in freeing the user to
focus on tasks in places the _traditional_ computing environment does not
gracefully go.

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