Hold onto your pants it's iPad pre-order day

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...but it's only a matter of time before there are commentards ranting on about how they don't want one.

(Sorry, did I say "commentards"? Replace "commen" with "re" for a more accurate description)

Hands up those ...

who are looking forward to the nauseating scenes of Apple Store drones applauding those willing to part with their money in exchange for one of those things.

I've no comment on the actual device, just the pathetic scenes of people buying said company's products.

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commentards you say ? Replacing "comment" with "re"

I see what you did there - you associated not wanting an ipad with a learning disability.

Your biting wit is bound to stop anyone saying anything you don't want to hear.

Comic. Genius.

(sorry did I say comic genius ? I meant of course ********ing ***er)

It's a great first attempt.

Now I just need one with an OQO-style slide out keyboard, the ability to make phone calls via bluetooth handset, USB ports, better resolution screen a removable battery and a more open OS. (Full-blown OSX, Windows, Linux or even Android would be fine.) The size of the iPad is about right, capacitive multitouch is grand, and things like wifi and 3G integrated directly into the device are starting to get it right. It's be worth a few hundred dollar premium to get all of that in one go, and it would be exactly what I have been wanting for over a decade.

Despite coming from Apple, it’s quite shockingly a fantastic first-generation device. They got is so very nearly right, it makes me wonder if they won’t just get it all right for the second go-round.

The fact that Apple's got these things almost on the streets means that the rest of the world will scramble to copy it. A couple of years on, and other manufacturers will improve upon it, fixing the various design flaws and purposeful omissions to help their variants appeal to people like me who held off from buying the original.

The day is finally coming when I can have my dream all-in-one. Muahahahahahahahha!

Ho hum.

I don't really want one. It will sell millions and be much loved by those people who do want one.

See, those two concepts can go together.

Pre-order y'say?

Putting in an order before simply ordering.

Or, in other words, ordering an order?

Down with this sort of thing.