Apple Online Store“I’ll avoid the dicey proposition of naming what I think is the best product of the year. But I can say with certainty that Apple’s iPad was the most disruptive,” Brooke Crothers writes for CNET.

“I found myself taking it everywhere (I have the 3G version) and using it instead of my laptop at airports, on planes, and in the car. Not to mention using it at home when relaxing on the sofa,” Crothers writes. “I always thought that my MacBook Air was the ultimate portable computer and I would never need anything else. Wrong. It turns out that a laptop–because of its relative weight and keyboard-centric clamshell design–is not always the ultimate machine when traveling or when there is a need to some quick home computing.”

Crothers writes, “The iPad showed me that there is a better form factor and interface (touch) for a surprising number of tasks.”

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