...it's "Offer" refunds.

Sure, you can give Apple back the iPad, and they'll give you your money back.

It's not like Apple will have trouble selling that iPad, and now you don't have one anymore.

Winners everyone on this one, eh?

I use my iPad for everything from checking my email to composing classical music, from playing games to using it onstage to improvise a funk Hammond B3 solo.

That said, I have never in my life read as much as I have since I picked it up. I've burned through more books than I did when I was a Literature major.

As an ADD person, getting to the library to get books was hard enough -- returning them on time was nigh impossible. Getting to the bookstore would never happen. But buying books that I want to read as soon as I hear about them? Win.

I don't get the argument here. I mean, I understand it, but I've never had that issue. All the arguments for e-ink are bunk for me, I have no problem reading on my ipad for hours. Barth, Pynchon, even Faulkner.

Battery life's never been an issue, I've never gotten a headache, all this FUD is pretty lame, IMHO. I'm glad you like your paper book, I'm glad you like your old-school Kindle, I'm in favor of anything that gets people to read more, but really -- it's a non-argument to me.

I drive a Jeep Wrangler, which is as secure as a tent. Basically, it IS a tent.

So the passenger's side floor is pretty much always full of Dunkin Donuts trash. I slide my laptop bag under it all, throw a few empty coffee cups on top, and noone's going to think there's anything interesting to steal.

Out-of-sight, out-of-mind works very well.

OBD (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On-board_diagnostics) included in the car? No more trying to get a USB cable to work with a laptop just to read the stuff that's been being recorded by my car for a decade+ now?

Yes, have some.

The camera is important, the piece of glass it comes with even more so.

I have a Panasonic Lumix that I've used for 7 years now, and I was just thinking yesterday that I'm amazed how well it has held up. The megapixel count of other cameras keep climbing, but this Leica lens keeps me in the hunt.

So yeah, the default answer is often going to be "Nikon" or "Canon," but this fairly inexpensive Lumix has never let me down, and I am continually impressed with its photo quality, even at only 4 megapixels.

They're under $100 used, too:

http://www.amazon.com/Panasonic-DMC-FZ1K-Digital-Camera-Optical/dp/B00008IHUB/ref=sr_1_5?s=photo&ie=UTF8&qid=1322265477&sr=1-5

Just for the record, saying "Android and iOS are great consumers of content but they're terrible producers" because of issues with capturing text is missing the forest for the trees.

Graphic artists are having a field day with tablets, and for many musicians, an iPad is the greatest invention since..... ever.

The idea that tablets are for consumption and not production *really* needs to die. As a songwriter, I've never been so productive.

It's not entirely germane to the OP, but it needed to be said.

I have spent years using Solaris, Redhat, Gentoo, Windows 2.0 through the present, etc. I've been at a computer pretty much 11-16 hours a day for the past 20+ years.

The last 5 have been on OSX, and I'm not going back to any of them. You can't make me.

I've been experimenting with Unity, and hate it quite passionately.

...and shout, "Me too! Me too!"

There are no words to describe the increase in your quality of life when you remove the commute. None. You'll be in awe of what life is actually like.

Definitely don't burn bridges, and handle it as responsibly as possible, but opportunities are opportunities, and you need to take the good ones when they come up.

Your job is not your life, your life is not your job.