It's Saturday, just three days after the iPad was revealed, and it's already become a cliché in Apple circles to say "You have to hold one to get it," but it's true. The Macalope hasn't gotten his hooves on one yet, but watch . , it's different. The way you interact with the interface is more robust, more refined, more responsive because the larger surface area allows more gesture options and the faster processor responds to them better.

Think about the . It's cool! It's like something out of a movie. It ! But who has the space or money for one? No one. Microsoft made a cool thing that no one can use. Brilliant.

Apple made a cool thing that everyone in the market for consumer technology can use.

InfoWorld's Galen Gruman thinks the iPad will . The Macalope would argue the netbook never really existed, but still: don't compare the iPad to a netbook. If you're comparing the iPad to a netbook you're doing it wrong. Netbooks are small, cheap, weak laptops. Forget them.

The iPad is something different. The iPad is small and cheap but not weak. It's focused. And yet it fills a hundred niches a crappy plastic laptop never could. One of the complaints in Wilcox's piece is how do you print from iWork? Who needs to print? Good lord, if Apple could kill printing they'd be doing us the single biggest favor in the history of all mankind. But here you have a device that a salesman and a customer, a doctor and a patient, a lawyer and a client, an Indian chief and a Pilgrim can sit down at together. They can pass it back and forth. This device is intimate; it brings people together. And if someone needs a copy, you e-mail it to them. Printing? 1997 called and it wants its ink cartridges back.