Today is the day when the highly iPad went for sale in the US.  I have anxiously waited for this day because my goal through this blog is to do reviews and provide useful about the iPad and iPad apps. I pre-ordered one iPad over a month ago, and will go to the Apple store later today to see if they saved one for me. After that I will immediately go to a family get together where I’ll show them the iPad and make a note of their response. There will be many people from different generations, so I hope to base their reaction as a model for the general reaction of the public at large towards the iPad.  Notice here that I am not talking about my evaluating people’s reaction to the news of the iPad.  I’m talking about people’s immediate reaction from unexpectedly seeing an iPad coming out of a box, and their interest in curiosity about how it works. I’ll let you know early next week if people act with indifference, or if they are enchanted by Apple’s newest creation.

On other news: I have not written for some time and would like to comment on what I’ve been up to besides anxiously waiting for the iPad. A couple of weeks ago I decided to finally and completely ditch all Vista editions that I had been using, and upgrade to Windows 7 (after having read reviews on Windows 7 and concluding that it is a decent OS). Well, I ended up having trouble with one of my computers during the install, which turned into a failed motherboard after a need to flash the bios (I learned a lot about that). Long story short, I ordered a new motherboard in order to revive this old computer, and in the process, I ordered a bunch of new parts for building a brand new desktop computer. I’m not anxiously waiting for this parts – more anxious than I’ve been waiting for the iPad, actually.

In this recent process of building yet another desktop computer (almost all my desktop computers were custom built by me) I was surprised to learn some new things, especially through the research I did on the computer parts I am getting. I’ll be getting my first quad-core AMD processor, which should blow away anything I’ve used before. Why am I sharing all this information here? Well, because I feel compelled to. And perhaps it is to show that I’m not as biased about the iPad as some people may think I am. I think the iPad is a fantastic device, and I say this while aware that my love for the desktop computer is still strong and despite the argument that desktop computers are a thing of the past.

Another thing I’m excited about is that I will be using Windows 7 to run my new quad-core machine for work, and I plan on installing Linux on the old machine that I just revived.

So this is it for now. Please, check back next week for some reviews on the iPad based on my personal experience with it (assuming the Apple store still has one for me today).