On Sat, 30 Jan 2010 20:28:32 -0500, David Spain
wrote:

Is this thing going to handle handwriting to text like the Palm Pilot
tried to do?

Only if you want to scratch up the screen of your $500/$900 device,
which is what happened to my old Palms after a while.

I hear Apple
will have a mini-keyboard as a doc option available either at first sale
or shortly thereafter.

Oh yeah, that's convenient. Lug the iPad along with the dock/keyboard
or a bluetooth keyboard everywhere you go. That's instead of a
one-piece netbook with a lot more functionality at 2/3 the price or a
full-blown laptop for the same price as the high-end iPad.

Behold, the next MacBook Air, which had a splashy unveiling, a cool
marketing plan and wowed audiences as well, until the masses realized
that "slim" is not a particularly useful measure of a computer's
quality.

Brian