Steve opened up the whole show with basically a major diss on netbooks. Basically he said netbooks weren’t good at anything. They were just cheap laptops. Which is pretty much true.

Well they called it iPad. Which makes sense since it sounds like iPod, but unfortunately  it does sound like the new female hygiene product from Apple.  And they spent a good amount of time making damn sure people thought it was going to be called something else like iSlate. Very sneaky Apple.

So it is only a pound and a half, half and inch thick, comes with 16-64mb of flash memory and has a custom built A4 processor made for Apple at 1 Ghz.

Special Guest presenters of note where Travis Boatman from EA, Martin Nisenholtz from the New York Times, MLB.com, and some apps they showed were the EA need for speed, MLB.com’s app for watching live games, New York Times  app for getting news, and an eBook reader with eBook store that actually looks like a bookshelf! Pretty darn awesome!  This is an amazing way to get and read books and the immediacy of gettgin them is a great thing. I still like book stores but this is so easy and being able to change fonts and such on your books gives this application value to older gen as well. Say hello to textbooks on your ipad and stop breaking your back on your backpack students.

Now for iWork. A completely new version of Keynote, Pages, and Numbers… and they have rework the UI for over a year. Making spreadsheets fun is pretty daunting task so if they can do that then you might as well just go buy one now.  Looks like making presentations and moving around Keynote is really fun too. Touch screens just make the machine more intimate. Jobs has this down pat. He makes the devices you use more human. That is what makes them different. So you can actually do work on this which touch interface. This was one of the major question marks witht eh tablet so far. Is it really practical to work on. iPad looks to be and could even replace many laptop users.

Cost: $999.00 Holy friggin crap $499.00 for the base model.

16GB is our base model. For 32GB it’s $100 more, and for $100 more than that you get $64GB. The 3G models cost another $130.

3G: ATT plans 256MB – 14.99 and an unlimited plan for 29.99 a month. NO CONTRACT!

What do you guys think? Do you like it? Will it cannabalise laptop sales? Want one?

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