Just a thought…
The iPad is, basically, all screen and almost no keyboard.
I have a gadget that is the other way round: all keyboard and almost no screen. It looks like this:
It’s the good old Alphasmart 3000. No wifi, no internet, no bookreading, no games… but the best keyboard in the world and a batterie life of 500 (five hundred) hours. Its coolness factor in cafés beats anything, if you define “coolness” by the amount of curious looks it provokes. And it’s the ultimate productivity tool - you can’t do anything else but writing, so you don’t do anything else.
In comparison, the iPad is just a toy. Although a beautiful one.