So I’ve had about 5 full days on the iPad … color me impressed. While it can’t replace my primary computer (either a 13″ MacBook Air or a 27″ iMac) for design and development activities, it can’t be beat for stuff like email, browsing the intarwebs, streaming movies, playing games, etc.

The most impressive thing, though, is the battery technology that allowed me to use the iPad off the initial charge for the entire weekend. In fact, I had to stream Netflix at full brightness on Sunday night just to drain the battery so I could start the conditioning process with an overnight charge — pretty efficient, I’d say!

Further, I took the iPad with me to work yesterday and streamed Spotify for about 3 hours (note: Spotify needs an iPad app, pronto), took some notes, sketched a little with Penultimate … And only dinged the fully-charged battery for 11% — are you kidding me?!

The only gripe I have is that it’s nearly impossible to have one iPad for a family. We have apps for my daughter on the iPad, but because I use the Facebook app, my wife needs to access Facebook via the web, Twitter using the web or a different client, etc. The iPad is such a personal device, and doesn’t lend itself well to sharing. For Apple, that’s a great problem: it means that we’ll likely have another iPad soon.