I have been using my iPad for…hmmm…nine weeks really, but two months sounds better. In that time I have been admitedly surprised to see it become one of the devices I use most often during the day, yet I haven’t really been using it in the ways I had expected to. Along the way I have learned a great deal about what the iPad can do, what it can’t, if it is really the “game changer” every one says it is and if so, what game it may change.

I didn’t go for the bells and whistles…in the gadgetesque Baskin Robbins of the Apple Store I ordered vanilla…16GB, WiFi only. However, I have tried A LOT of Apps and cases, reviewed a fair number, and jailbroke the little darling from the first moment it came into my hands to be able to chart the entire experience of the “magical” tablet. Yesterday I swallowed hard and I upgraded my iPad to iOS 3.2.1, knowing full well that doing so would break the exploit that allowed the iPad to be jailbroken. The reason I did that while leaving my iPod Touch happily Blackra1ned is part and parcel of this review.

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