My iPad was delivered Saturday and I am, quite simply, thrilled with it. Our Macbook Pro suddenly seems big and clumsy and outdated. All operations on it are extremely simple. The size is wonderful for portability. I find it much more comfortable to be on the internet with it in hand instead of the Macbook in my lap. I have found four uses for it at

I hope the Remote app is updated/upgraded to take advantage of the iPad.

iPad is up and running and am typing this post on it.

My wife thinks like your wife and also wanted the 3GS version. My eagerness to get one however won out and we decided to get each other one as a belated Valentine's Day gift, wifi for me and 3GS for her. It just arrived and is syncing with iTunes as I type this. So far can say it looks beautiful, typical Apple product with a very clear image on

My iPad is scheduled for delivery today. Will be interesting to see how it really is.

Have tried a different box, same problem.

Has anybody tried AST yet and have any comments on it?

any other ideas?

Thanks! Yes that works fine but up until the problem occurred the picture was better through the component.

Our US Avant has recently developed a picture problem. We have a satellite box connected to it through the component inputs. If I set the satellite receiver to a format that fills the entire screen there are intermittent dark waves through the picture. If I set it so the picture is 4X3 with black bars on either side the image is perfect, but slightly