I've just bought 2 ipads and have 2 cool keyboards for them on order. The keyboards use bluetooth to communicate with the iPad, doubling as a hard case but also proving a stand so the ipad can stand up like a notebook screen. The ipad now is a workstation, remoting into PCs as required but with video conferencing, telephony, email and office functions downloaded for a few bucks. So far the users say they don't want anything more to do with a grandpa-box notebook computer.

I'm surprised. I expected that the pad form-factor was a short-term solution as people apart from HP dropped their interest in PCs and moved to mobile devices. But pads have created a definite ecosystem of their own. Remarkable- not least because one of the wannabe OS leaders seems to have no interest.