Finally sat and watched all the way through over toast and tea this morning.

Stuff I agree with everyone else on:

1. Look great.
2. Dumb name.
3. Excited to hold one in my hands.
4. Surpised by the price. In a positive way.

Other good stuff:

1. The streaming sports potential is incredibly exciting to me. The MLB and NBA streaming offerings for the iPhone are already done really well. I can’t wait to see it taken to this size.

2. I have my MacBook next to me in the living room about 90% of the time I am watching TV, sometimes even next to me if I am watching TV in bed. I find this handy (bordering on necessary) because I can immediately do things like imdb the new guy on 30Rock, figure out what that song was in the closing credits of Entourage or find out what the hell “Patina” means when the bald dude on Pawn Wars keeps saying it.

If I’m not pecking away on the MacBook, I am doing it on the iPhone. You may not watch television this way right now but you will. And in the not so distant future I believe it will be using a device like this.

The iPad does 100% of the non-work tasks my MacBook needs to do. And it does it in a tiny but not too-tiny form factor for an impressive amount of time without a plug in.

This, to me, is what this device is all about.

3. I would love to replace my current setup (MacBook with a secondary 20 inch LCD) with an iMac (if they ever fix the screen problem) and one of these.

4. For some reason, this gets me more excited about app development than the iPhone did. Not so much the idea of coming up with ideas for good apps. But with the actual process of making them. We’ll see how long that lasts once I do some reading. It’s a space I would like to explore.

Concerns:

1. It’s probably not a good “only” computer. And I haven’t really heard them come out and say that.

2. The dock should be in landscape rather than portrait.

I want to sit that thing next to me with a basketball game on and I want it to fill as much screen as possible. Probably an easy fix with a stand but it would be nice to actually dock it at that orientation.

3. I’m not super impressed by the e-reader, particularly the UI and the watered down Bookstore metaphor they use for the book storage and the literal page flip animation. I expect more from Apple in this department. This is a shame because that was definitely on my top 3 list of things I wanted it to do well. I’m not saying I won’t use it but that animation is bound to make me grumpy.

4. Along with the UI/metaphor complaints on the bookstore, I need to add how bad I think iWork looks. I am not an iWork user so I don’t know if those use user-set skinned themes or something but the demo apps they showed looked like children’s software.

Conclusion:

I want one and I am sure I will eventually get one. The questions are when and with or without 3G. Those answers probably deserve a post all their own.