iPad release date announced

The new Apple iPad will ship April 3. For those of us waiting impatiently for this new gadget, today's news is quite welcome.
The Apple iPad will be a multimedia experience. Similar to an iPhone, but with a 10 inch screen, longer battery life, and more powerful processing, the iPad will make the entertainment experience more portable, more user friendly, and just plain more fun. According to Apple, nearly all of the 150,000 apps in the iTunes App Store will work on the iPad from day 1. Apps purchased for the iPhone or iPod Touch will be translatable to your brand new iPad.
Ranging from $499 to $829, there's an iPad for most budgets. If you plan to use the iPad at home or only where there is wifi, the cheaper models will be just fine. The more expensive models come with AT&T 3G capabilities, but also with AT&T fees for a data package. For those constantly on the go, the 3G model may be needed, but for most, the wifi only should be more than sufficient.
There are also 3 choices of memory, 16, 32, and 64 GB. For storing movies, music, e-books, etc, the more memory the better. For largely internet surfing or playing App games, the lower memory models are likely just fine. I've yet to fill up my 16 GB iPhone.
This time around, Apple's release of a new product already has some smart accessories available from Apple, not 3rd party vendors. A VGA connector for using the iPad a digital movie player connected to your TV, a keyboard dock for those needing a real keyboard, and a very nice case are all available for purchase.
Add the extended warranty plan for $99 if it is possible the iPad might be damaged during your use. Apple's warranties are one of the few that are really worth the money. If it breaks, they just replace it. My husband's iPhone had a couple of pixels go bad. We took it into the Apple store and they replaced it right then.
With Apple's new iBookstore, browse, purchase, and read books on your iPad. For on the go, just the storage of many books is worth the purchase of the iPad. Anyone like me, who travels with one or two books daily and takes 5-7 for a weeklong trip will appreciate this ability. Read in portrait for one page or landscape for two pages, which looks just like you're reading a book, just without the ink stains on your fingers.
I am beginning to feel that we have entered the age of Buck Rogers. Will when Apple invent the magic medical wand that diagnoses all your ills with just a pass over?