[drenei]

> Most computer users just browse the net or read/write documents and spreadsheets.

Which is what the iPad was created to target.

> your free or shiny OS doesn't mean shit if I can't run my apps on it

The only application I know of where I prefer the Windows implementation to what is available for my Mac is Quickbooks. There might be other narrow verticals (CAD?) where you don't have best of breed software available for Apple's OS, but by and large in 2010 worrying about software availability for a Mac is a moot point.

[csomar]

> _Which is what the iPad was created to target._

I doubt the iPad will be as powerful as Excel and as comfortable as a desktop PC.

[danudey]

Numbers on the iPad (or on the Mac for that matter) will never be as powerful as Excel, if for no other reason than 99% of users don't use 99% of features.

The parent poster mentioned users that just 'browse the net or read/write documents and spreadsheets', and those types of people generally don't use most of what Excel offers. What they do use (formulas, charts, sheets, styles, etc.) Numbers does offer, and it does quite well.

[csomar]

> _hich is what the iPad was created to target._

I doubt the iPad will be as powerful as Excel and as comfortable as a desktop PC.