A good friend brought me back an iPad from the U.S. a few weeks ahead of the Japan launch. I have been playing with it for the last hour and I have to say that this is not just a big iPod Touch as some people have been saying. I'll admit that I was not that excited about it, although I had already decided to get one. But you really need to play with one of these to understand why it is a game changer. After only a few minutes I could see how I could not need a laptop anymore and use this as one of my main web devices around the house.

