I'll b using the pAd for everything it does......mostly just web surfing blogging and videos. Too bad it's more of a consumer product than a creation machine. Still love it though.

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I use my iPad for: Games, taking notes while in class, surfing the web, calendar and just about everything I otherwise would use a computer to do. In fact the only things I use my computer to is watching flash vids and doing heavy writing. But when I get the zagg mate w/keyboard even heavy typing on my IPad will be possible. Gotta love the IPad.

Simple tasks now: email, with 3G I use google maps for work, watching Netflix is awesome on it. More uses to come as I get more familiar with it's capabilities.

I have a lot of programming guides and installation manuals I use on my job but never seem to be able to keep up with them. I downloaded Documents to go and have them all at my fingertips now. Plus make a nice portfolio of my landscape pictures.

Lol, Many thing, I like watching movie best.

My birthday is in April, so I just had to have an iPad ... I thought I'd use it just for me, but now it's mostly filled with kids books that I share with my little boy.

It's changed my life so much that I am starting a new database-driven review site just for kids books on iPad. Literally changed careers. How's that for dramatic?

But I still use it for my calendar & email. Plus checking the weather reports, at least lately.

I would use my ipad for mostly music oriented things. I play several different instruments and I've found an iPad app called Symphony Pro that is kind of like a portable Finale program which is perfect for a musician on the go like me.

I have moved my entire sheet music collection on the iPad and still not finished scanning. Maybe not perfect for live performances, but exceptional as reference and choosing the music I have to play. And GoodReader is just brillant.

My main thoughts when I bought it were that I would use it as a tablet to take handwritten notes in meetings and to manage my many lists. I wanted the functionality of a tablet computer, with the size and lighter weight of the old HP TX1100 tablets where you could detach the keyboard.
I am now finding that I use it for those things, but also to amuse myself on long plane trips between North America and Asia. (Last year I logged 123,000 miles.) I use it as an e-book reader. I also download magazines, as airplane trips are about the place where I have time to indulge myself with magazines. (I love the Zinio app) The iPad is a lot lighter than a half dozen magazines would be!
I also use it as a platform for watching movies. Some airlines still do not have personal screens, and those who do, often show movies that I already saw. Also, I sometimes travel the same route a couple of times in the same month, so I go through the ones that I have not seen before pretty quickly. I like downloading my own movies via iTunes and watching them on the iPad. Some I buy from the iTunes store and some I import from my own purchased DVDs via a conversion software that is on my laptop.
I don't play a lot of games, but I do enjoy Sudoku and Bookworm, a PopCap game that is really intended for iPhone, but which functions pretty well on iPad as well.
I hav yet to get the email function to work for me, but I hope to be abel to use it for email, as well.
And of course, for browsing the web.

While you won't find the iPad as functional as a full-fledged email client (at least, not without some app assistance) you'll probably love the convenience of dealing with email on a nice sized screen without having to break out the notebook.