Being a long-time mac fan, starting off with an LCII, now with an Imac to work on, an iPhone to travel with and an iBook for on the sofa – yes, I have mobile me too – I’m slightly underwhelmed by the iPad.

Yes it’s beautiful, yes it does the job beautifully, It may be okay to read books on it, that depends on the screen. Apple has always bigged-up screen quality and I’ve never thought they were as good as they hyped them.

The ipad is a laptop replacement, but it doesn’t do what a laptop does.

You wouldn’t want to hike it around just to do what an ipod or iphone do already. It doesn’t take photos or video and it doesn’t run run mac applications. It only runs proprietry applications.

Steve Jobs shows us what a brilliant web browser it is by reading the New York Times. Of course he doesn’t mention that the page is littered with little lego blocks that tell us that iPad does not run Flash. I’d cope with that on a phone, but on a machine that is sold as the best web-browsing experience in the world? A web-browser without Flash – get real!

The only additional feature is the bookstore. I don’t think that is a killer app. I’m sure the hard-core fans will buy it, but I’m not sure who else will.

The entry price is good, but I’d rather have a proper computer that can do all the things I want it to. I’m sure the screen keyboard is much better than the iPhone’s, but I don’t want to write a manuscript on it.

Sorry Apple. I’m sure I’d like one to have a round, but I dons’ see the point of paying money for it.