I see the iPad as the step between a smart phone, and a laptop. Netbooks are often too small, struggle at even basic video play back in terms of processing power and are hardly suitable for pretty much anything due to the painfully small screens/keyboards/trackpads. I'd rather just get a 13" laptop. As I said, I only like the iPad because I think it'll be awesome for ppt presentations, videos and general web browsing. And on another note, due to their release it seems more and more major websites are starting to drop flash requirements, and switching to (the better) HTML5. Wooo