I was at Best Buy today for an iPad case. Another iPad owner was doing the same. He had waited in line and eagerly bought one on April 3rd like the rest of us. But he hadn’t used his yet. He couldn’t. His MacBook was 10.4 (Tiger) and couldn’t run the required version of iTunes …

I’m on the train in to Philadelphia and writing this post on a wifi-only iPad via wifi tethering. The 3G iPads come out later this month, but why would you want an additional $30 per month plan when most mobile phones have decent bluetooth or wifi tethering options?

I set up my Google nexus one …

I’m wrapping up two days with the iPad. Day one was getting used to the device and picking up some apps.

Apps
There isn’t a lot out there yet that is iPad optimized. I only found about a dozen apps I wanted to download and use… Amongst those:

• The requisite iWork suite (Pages,

…

Purchase
I got in line at 8:30 and was out the door with my iPad by 9:15 (actual arrival time at the Apple store was 7:45 in case it was mobbed, but only 50 people were there and it was cold. Lounging in Starbucks was a hell of a lot better).

In the Apple Store …

Speed. Time-to-content. That’s it.

The most elegant feature of the iPad is that it gets you to the stuff you want more quickly than any other device. Time reduction between a dark screen and destination is the game changing attribute that makes me want one. I want efficiency.

A laptop or netbook may have more features …

I do not like them, Fanboi-I-am.
I do not like iPads without cams.

Would you like them with Scott or Phil?

I would not like them with Scott or Phil.
I would not like them without vids or stills.

Would you like them in Jobs’ house?
Would you like them, they have no mouse?

I do …