There’s not a lot more I can say about the iPad that I haven’t covered already. I’m still pretty enamored with this little wonder and think it’s probably getting all the good press it deserves. The biggest thing I’ve found missing is connectivity with the cloud. Some of that is a limitation of the wifi model and some of it is built into the way the device works. I’ve got email and contacts syncing OTA, but support for Google Docs would be a big step towards making it my go-to device for most general applications. Still, I suspect that will come in time. The only other element I’ve found lacking so far is Apple’s perennial denial of multitasking. With heavy use of word processing and other productivity apps, that’s going to be a must add in a future OS build. Hopefully we’ll see that sooner rather than later. With Apple set to formally announce iPhone OS 4 tomorrow, it’s possible that some relief is on the way.

The only other thing vie discovered that does’t work as well as I had hoped was navigating some of my particular e-shopping venues. All of my payment and shipping info autofills on my laptop but doesn’t seem to be following suite with iPad. Of course that may just be user error. The learning curve here isn’t as steep as one might imagine, but I know I’m not getting as much out of my new favorite electronic sidekick as I could be. Gutting to the top of that curve remains a work in progress.