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Overall experience with the iPad: Love the thing! My MacBook Pro is largely ignored now, used only for such tasks as movie editing, picture handling, and scanning/printing. The iPad is excellent for reading/cruising the internet in the car and in the house or in bed. Having taken a lengthy trip with the iPad and the Mi-Fi, I now find these things annoy/annoyed me a bit about the iPad: 

• The Name: Why, oh why, did they call it the iPad? Are we used to it now? I shudder less when I hear it, but I still shudder.
• Headphones: It doesn't come with headphones, and although iPhone headphones work with the iPad, it was really difficult to get any headphones to fit in the jack the first few times (a tight squeeze).
• Charger: The charging cable is too short, and Apple makes you fork over more cash  if you want an accessory to make the cable longer.
• Calculator: The thing needs to have a calculator on it. Thanks to a third-party developer, there's a free app for that now.
• Clock: Where's the clock/alarm clock?
• Location-Based Services: I'm not sure how this works on a wi-fi network, but part of the time while traveling about 700 miles one-way with the iPad and a Verizon Mi-Fi portable hotspot, the iPad's Maps app knew exactly where I was (the Mi-Fi is cellular-based), but most of the time, it thought I was two miles from my house (in the opposite direction of my travel). I understand you should get a 3G-based iPad with a GPS chip if you want pin-point accuracy, but the inconsistency of the results I got with wi-fi location services is what I don't understand. How does it put me 700 miles from home one minute, then exactly where I'm at the next? Must be something to do with the capabilities of the cell tower I'm connected to.

 But the above annoyances are minor. I love the thing!