With Select Apps, iPad Is More Than a Pretty Face

Let’s set aside the question of whether you should get an iPad and suppose you already bought one last weekend. You probably floated home and loaded it with a few whiz-bang apps and maybe even passed it around to your friends.
At some point in all the euphoria, you may also have wondered whether this device is just a trophy or something you can actually use.
Such self-doubts can be easily cast aside, providing you delve a little more deeply into the App Store than the Top 100 list — and are ready to open the wallet again.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/08/technology/personaltech/08smart.html