Really liking the iPad so far. it’s a perfect fit between a cellphone and a laptop (but not replacing either). One annoyance is that it’s a bit of a chore to get some videos into the ipad. For example, I use Aperture to manage my photos and home movies, and Aperture sync to the iPad works very well. But movies in the photo albums that I want to sync to the iPad don’t show up because the are .mov files and the iPad doesn’t play those.
So I have to go through a couple of extra steps. These steps work for DVD’s ripped to my computer to. Start with any video file, and use Handbrake (http://handbrake.fr/) to reformat the videos. Note that Handbrake is really free, and not just a free download with a required payment as with many other solutions to this problem.
Within Handbrake I’ve created a set of settings that work with the iPad, and stored those into a preset. So if I want to format a video for my iPhone I can select that preset, and likewise for the iPad. The settings are on the web but if you can’t track them down get in touch and I’ll send you the details.
Except for the annoyance of the extra couple of steps, this works very well and I get very high res video into my iPad.
iPad is way too cool to own, i wanna buy one next month.*:”
my girlfriend is going to give me an ipad on my birthday this month.;;*