On the other hand, NBC is apparently , and with a few exceptions for Flash games that have been converted for iPhone OS (, anyone?), online Flash games are out of reach.

So depending on your browsing habits, the iPad's lack of Flash support could mean missing out on your favorite online games and media, or it could just mean that you'll no longer be annoyed by Flash Web ads.

As those who've used Safari on an iPhone or iPod touch can attest, there's something deeply intuitive about touchscreen browsing: tapping links and buttons with your fingertip, sliding your finger up and down the screen to scroll, pinching or tapping to zoom...it just feels so much more natural than using a mouse or a trackpad to interact indirectly with a Web page. With Safari on the iPad, you get all those touchscreen benefits, but the larger screen improves the browsing experience even more dramatically: You can see much more of every page, and when you do need to zoom in on something, you can do so without the sense of "Web blinders"--the rest of the page being completely hidden from view--you get on the iPhone.

The iPad's faster processor, graphics, and wireless performance (the iPad includes 802.11n wireless) also improve the browsing experience. In addition to faster page loading and rendering, you get less stuttering on streaming-media sites, and some of those sites will even send you better-quality streams than on an iPhone due to the faster Internet connection. Resizing and scrolling Web pages is also noticeably faster. In fact, you can resize and scroll a Web page in any direction at the same time, which can be useful in some situations. (You can actually do this in Safari on an iPhone, as well, but the iPhone's small screen makes such actions impractical. On the iPad's large screen, it feels quite natural to pan across a page as you're zooming in on its text.)