I have been using my new iPad for almost 2 weeks now and I thought that I should share my experiances with it with you. I bought it while attending Blackhat and Defcon in Las Vegas and it immidiate replaced my laptop for my browsing and social network need, mainly for two reasons:

* My laptop's battery is not very good any longer, if I am lucky I can get maybe two hours out of it between recharges - not that good if you are attending conference activities about 10 hours a day.

* A laptop is quite cumbersome to open and close as well, weights twice as much as my iPad and takes a while to start and power off, meaning that you get even less usable time working on it.

It took a few hours to get used to the iPad's on-screen keyboard, but it works quite well now. I am in fact writing this whole blog post using my iPad using BlogPress.

Apart from using it for blogging and twittering (using TweetDeck) I uploaded my collection of PDF-magazines (Hakin9, (IN)Secure Mag, ClubHack etc.) as well as Dive Into Python PDF book and some PDF's from the academic courses I am persuing this semester and I have no problem reading those on the iPad either.

The only drawback I percive with the iPad at the moment are that:
1) I don't have a mobile broadband plan for it (yet). This will be sorted out in the next few weeks.

2) Many of the iPhone applications has yet to be updated to support the iPad, and running games and such in 2x magnified mode basically sucks and looks pretty ugly.

Now when I can blog more easily on the road I think I can take the time to keep the blog updated.