Don't get me wrong--I love the iPad. However, my appreciation for the iPad as a tablet in its own right does not automatically translate to loving the iPad as a full-time replacement for my notebook. With that said, here are my five biggest complaints about the iPad as PC.

1. Virtual Keyboard. Going into this project, I received a number of warnings, suggestions, and inquiries related to whether or not I planned to use a wireless physical keyboard. I did end up , but in fairness it is not the virtual keyboard itself that I have a problem with.

The problem is that the iPad display isn't very large to begin with, and the virtual keyboard takes up half of it. As for the actual typing, I like the virtual keyboard--but I can't sacrifice so much screen real estate on a 9.7-inch screen.

2. File Management. I understand that the tablet is a different animal than a PC. The goal of the 30 Days With the iPad project was to figure out if an iPad can replace a PC in terms of functionality and productivity--not to try to make the iPad be a PC. That said, it would be nice if the iPad had some sort of common data storage native to the tablet.

Using , or the are good workarounds for actually storing and retrieving files, but iOS needs a file system that is shared between apps in a consistent manner. It doesn't need to be the traditional file and folder system per se. It just needs to be something more core to iOS and less dependent on individual apps.