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		<outline created="Fri, 12 Mar 2010 19:50:47 GMT" text="Me and iPad: Not now">
			<outline created="Fri, 12 Mar 2010 19:50:53 GMT" text="&lt;img src=&quot;http://images.scripting.com/archiveScriptingCom/2010/03/12/ipad.jpg&quot; width=&quot;175&quot; height=&quot;219&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; align=&quot;right&quot; hspace=&quot;15&quot; vspace=&quot;5&quot; alt=&quot;A picture named ipad.jpg&quot;&gt;I was up this morning at 8:30AM Eastern and saw the notes that the iPad was now available for pre-order. So I went through the process, updated my credit card on Apple's website, changed the address and phone number. The total price was a bit of a shocker -- approx $650 including tax. "></outline>
			<outline created="Fri, 12 Mar 2010 19:53:55 GMT" text="I hesitated. I was typing the order on a $350 Asus Eee PC that I had bought a long time ago. It gets about 8 hours on the battery. It has a 160GB hard drive, three USB ports, Ethernet, webcam builtin. Real keyboard. No DRM. "></outline>
			<outline created="Fri, 12 Mar 2010 19:53:48 GMT" text="I went to Amazon to see what I could get for $650. Lots of stuff I'm not buying that I'd like to have. A nice &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amazon.com/Polk-Audio-AM1805-SurroundBar-Instant/dp/B001QCYHXC/ref=wl_it_dp_o?ie=UTF8&amp;coliid=IYRDSUYOFDKWK&amp;colid=3ON5W8HBTKUOI&quot;&gt;Polk Audio soundbar&lt;/a&gt; is about $500. "></outline>
			<outline created="Fri, 12 Mar 2010 19:54:47 GMT" text="I could fly roundtrip to San Francisco for that amount."></outline>
			<outline created="Fri, 12 Mar 2010 19:54:56 GMT" text="I thought about which I would bring with me on a trip to San Francisco, an iPad or the Asus. No doubt, I'd bring the Asus. I have no idea what I can do with the iPad, and most important, I have a pretty good idea that I won't be able to run my software on it, or watch a movie I ripped from a DVD. Or listen to a podcast I downloaded with non-Apple software. "></outline>
			<outline created="Fri, 12 Mar 2010 19:56:20 GMT" text="I decided that no matter how important it is for my work to understand what Apple's product does, it can wait until I find out what the product &lt;i&gt;is.&lt;/i&gt; I guess I no longer have the Apple bug up my ass that says I have to get one of everything they make on the day it comes out. "></outline>
			<outline created="Fri, 12 Mar 2010 19:57:15 GMT" text="So for now at least, the answer to the iPad is &quot;no.&quot;"></outline>
			<outline created="Fri, 12 Mar 2010 21:51:27 GMT" text="Update: People say here and on Twitter that you'll be able to watch movies you rip from DVD or listen to podcasts downloaded with non-Apple software on an iPad. They reason that since you can do it on an iPod you will be able to do it on an iPad. "></outline>
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