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There was a time that I thought I might go ahead and purchase an iPad. I am starting to have second thoughts about it. When you get right down to it it is a want and not a need. I already have an older laptop that I have just replaced the battery in. The only thing missing that would make it more useful is to add a Windows operating system. Right now it is running Ubuntu and I pretty much can do everything that I want on it. I would of course make it a dual boot machine because I don't see using the Windows part more than about 20% at best. About the only thing that I would use it for is running some Cakewalk software that I recently purchased. Unfortunately I don't have a Windows XP or 7 package that I can load onto it so I will have to deal with the Microsoft tax that I have tried so hard to avoid. So much for being frugal. A Netbook is not the right answer because of my large hands and the small screen, not to mention the lack of horsepower. S o I will be updating my old laptop in the next few days to get around the problem.