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I am totally writing this on an iPad, you all. I am living the dream.
Granted, the iPad is way more typeable than the iPod just because it is bigger. But I will not be making a habit of blogging from it. Especially since I am sitting in front of my computer as I write this blog post. I am awesome. But, you know, first night with it, gotta go with the gimmick.

Basically, I’m not having buyer’s remorse yet. The iPad is doing exactly what I wanted, and even more. It is a fun little time wasting device.

One thing I kind of forgot about was the multitasking. That should maybe be in quotation marks. Since my iPod can’t do it, I forgot about it. It works… Okay? Mostly it just seems to make me have to manually quit apps from the task manager.
There is one benefit, though. I can be on a Skype call and actually use other apps. It works in the background like real multitasking! This is the thing that shocked me when I found it out. I thought it would just work with the iPod and Pandora and have the fake switching for everything else. I was proved wrong.

That thing with the task manager is really my only complaint, though. It has scaled up all the iPhone games I’ve thrown at it so far like a champ, which is something I expected, but wasn’t sure about. The iPad games I have also work really well. I bought the iPad Plants vs Zombies for charity, and goodness, if I didn’t know better I would say the iPad was the lead version of that game. Multitouch makes the game a dream to play, and it was fantastic enough to begin with. I also splurged on the iPad version of Words with Friends. It’s kind of stupid, but is really is easier to play when you don’t have to zoom in on the board. Plus, I have a unified account, so I can play my turns on whatever is handy, which is how it should be.
(An aside: why aren’t more apps as good at multiplayer as Words with Friends? Developers have a model to copy! Make it happen!)

I will admit, as I write more on this keyboard, I am getting into a groove. It’s not going to replace a keyboard or anything like that. Not going to write a short story on it. But this is pretty solid when in landscape, really. I’m doing something similar to touch typing with not too many typos.

Anyway, there are some day 1 impressions. I am sure I will be writing more about the thing in the future. Sorry if you don’t care for that. It will probably be game reviews, though, so that’s a thing, yes?