I’ve just sat for the last hour or so watching the live feed from the Apple  ‘Come see our latest creation’ event coverage and whilst I have a few blogs in the pipeline (which will appear over the next couple of days) I thought I’d do a round-up post with some thoughts on the Apple event.

There’s something about Apple products that oozes beauty, where-as Dell produce a brick and call it a laptop Apple form these wonderfully designed products.

The big item expected from Apple’s event today was the announcement of the ‘Apple Tablet’ and strangely Steve Jobs started off the event by launching it (actually 1 hour on they were still talking about it).

As usual Apple have designed something beautiful, the iPad is slim, has a nice 9 inch screen and seems to have a slimlined version of Mac OSX (including a dock). The other features include WiFi, bluetooth, built in speakers, microphone and headphone jack and a 10 hour battery life plus the ability to connect a projector!

The other main aim for the iPad is to compete with the amazon Kindle as an e-book reader and it looks like it’s going to be hot competition, after-all it does far more beside books…we shall see!

Whilst I think the iPad is something of beauty and can fully see the potential for users I think it’s somewhat of a niche market. I can see it being used by commuters on their way to work and maybe it could just about be used as a bag-sized PDA but it’s too big for a pocket and will probably be too expensive to buy for fun (much to my disappointment).

However for those with money to spend I could quite easily see it as being an alternative to sitting watching TV with a laptop…providing a nice, slim alternative. I wish I had money to spare!

(Since typing this the US price has been announced as $499 so I suspect in the UK we’ll be looking at 300…less than an iPhone…tempting)

Disappointingly the presentation ended after an hour and a half of iPad talk which although talked about e-books, iwork for the iPad and some fantastic looking games for the iPad didn’t talk about a new iLife, iWork or iPhone which is such a shame. iDisappointed!

Can’t wait to play on an iPad in an Apple store though!