Welcome on board. You'll love it.
Have a four hour drive to Cardiff tomorrow and the iPad goes too. Fired up google maps, put the postcode in and checked my destination in street view. When I stop en route I can check my email and read the headlines. While it's no good for video encoding it does everything else with grace and speed.
I even gave my Vaio away last week, just never turned it on since I got the iPad......well it was bloody heavy to lug around and by the end of the day I had a noticeable list to one side.