An iPad for My Birthday!

Dear iPad,
Yes, You Will Be Mine
(soon-ish, I hope)!

Just when I thought I'd pass up on the first generation iPad, my husband surprised me today with a piece of paper for my birthday. A piece of paper that declares that indeed, an iPad has been reserved especially for me.

Yes, reserved.

You see, while our American friends have all enjoyed the launch of the much-awaited iPad just a few days ago, we here in Australia still need to wait a bit. We don't even get a launch date yet. Just the promise of "late in April".

The only consolation for some folks is that at least, the iPad with 3G will be launched at the same time. Not that that makes any difference with me, as I think I'm just getting the wireless version. 64 Gig, though, so I'm not complaining.

I suppose, it's okay for us to wait a bit longer, especially since Apple hasn't really gotten around to having a fully functioning iBooks for us Down Under anyway. But, I heard that Apple IS looking for an iBooks Manager in Asia Pacific and Canada to be based either in Sydney or Toronto. How they figure that will work is beyond me, but as long as I get me some iBooks when the iPad gets here, I'll leave the nitty gritty details to the ones getting my hard earned Aussie dollars.  

But yeah, I can't wait!

How about you? Are you getting the iPad? (Don't rub it in if you already have one, please! ;-))