Well, we've finally got an iPad (since we're developing Apps for iPhone that we need to port to iPad) and one single factor has convinced me that my eeePC will never get used again – battery life. The iPad lasts at least 12 hours using internet over wifi and watching videos etc. eeePC – maybe 2 or 3 hours on dimmest screen setting.

Jasper has been playing around with Touch OSC on it, with good results. When he tried that on our old iPhone, we got blue-screen output when the battery died. Which was at a gig. Oops. iPad's superior battery life and much bigger screen makes it much more viable for gigging.

Keynote second-screens beautifully, so I can't see any reason that a basic VJ app with second-screen wouldn't work.

We're also looking at Apps to use for live-drawing on buildings, hooked up to a projector. Will be buying a stylus for it, and checking out the existing drawing apps. If we can't find something that does what we want, we'll knock together our own App to do it. I <3 Scriptlance, you can get an App built for a couple of hundred $. Sketchbook Pro by Autodesk is looking promising though.

Would love to hear what other people are doing with their iPads now they're available

Sidebar: anyone know if the new iWork Keynote for iPad will play slides with videos in them? I really need that for presentation clients.

it is  definitly a lemur killer !

cant wait to order one ….

What's missing on Android: native hooks for OpenGL ES, which would allow writing native code and porting more libraries, other hardware support (same problem as iPad), video codec support that might come from additional NDK native support. Quality of the screens and multi-touch input are a concern, too.

Anyway, I don't think we're going to have to "settle" for anything — this market is going to be very competitive, and very fast-moving, based on all indications. You'll have lots of choices in OS, form factor, and capabilities.

For that reason, I'm honestly a bit surprised by the lack of HD out on this tablet; it's not hard to imagine that showing up in v2 of iPad.

We visualists are used to either focused hardware or general-purpose, hackable OSs. This is something new.

We need to calibrate our expectations. It's early in the game. We'll see completely new and awesome uses emerge over time.

Forget the 'feature list' (cam, storage, etc.). This device is all about redefining how we interact with computers. Bringing a 1.5 lb. slab as a control surface, that's more expressive and… fun! than my laptop alone? You betcha! It'll happen.

And if Android OS heads that direction, with more hardware flexibility – we'll be all over that, too. Good times ahead.

Video input and output

Stereo/Dual mono Audio input and output with phantomfeedable inputs for condenser microphones.

Midi input and output

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