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This week-end my conjoint and me did a road-trip from Montreal to Toronto, for the Mirror Awards (Canadian hairdressers contest), and we have been deceived: finalist in 2 categories, my beloved ones doesn’t won any

But this is not the point here. We didn’t really enjoyed Toronto and we couldn’t have a reservation for the CN Tower restaurant, I dreamed to eat at 351m (450 feet) with a panoramic view! So we decided to go to see Ottawa, and quickly drove there…

To find a hotel, some (good) restaurants, bars, night-club to go out, we stopped at a coffee. Our iPod is not easy to use to browser many pages, look to the map with enough space on the screen, so I used myMacBook Pro 17″ (yes screen is bigger and totally gorgeous! lol!).

But here got the point, I couldn’t connect easily, we go to a Starbuck coffee, were it happens the connection was so slow it took minutes to display just one page. I was digusted.

What we needed was an iPad, something with a bigger than smartphone (and iPhone) screen, easy to use, able to take the micro-SIM card of my iPhone or have it’s own 3G plan, for me to browse locations on Ottawa while moving, discuss things, use the time lost in our car as a cool time to discuss our envy, and quietly choose an hotel, do an hotel reservation online while in the highway, select a restaurant to enjoy sea food, look at ratings and comments…

Finally we do it from an iPhone, but hotel reservation screen was really too large for it, and even if everything goes well, I do an error on the date: default date was tomorrow instead today on their page and I couldn’t see it if I didn’t check it by zooming!

We ended-up with a suite on Best Western, and sea food on Metropolitain Brasserie. A restaurant that is so a french brasserie, and so good, that I thought many parisian brasserie may take lessons! The suite was real great too

But with an iPad it would have been more simple, much more enjoyment to use while on the road, that I think it will be my next toy when the 3G version will be available!

I was totally wrong, I thought it was just another form of netbooks, or lightweight laptop, but the main points are *NOT* is form-factor, nor it’s superb incredible design, the astonishing autonomy, the entry-level price of only $499.

No, for me the incredible bet in the iPad is a concept of totally new computer systems, that we may encounters as well as desktop, laptop, the iPad that is the first of it’s kind. It’s really a new computer concept.

You could forget about the personal computer, iPad changed it to the concept of personal interactive device. It’s a natural (r)evolution if you consider the Mac: forget about system or OS, forget about installing softwares, forget all you know about what makes a computer a personal computer.

The iPad is a personal device, that may do anything that a Personal Computer might do (at least on same size factor), it’s conceived as a Device, not as a platform you may do whatever you want. It’s limiting, but on the other way so promising in term of service quality that it might be a future for personal computing.

Business Model itself changed completely, no more buying boxes, using activation keys, or anything, just go online (using wifi or 3G) one click to buy and load your application. No more hacking (or probably less!), direct money stream from consumer to developers, checked and validated applications, the best seller won’t be the one with the big name, but the one that will innovate and break the rules (but not Apple’s rules! lol).

This is not a personal computer, it’s a personal device that do computing tasks. This is a revolution in itself.