I don't know about your workplace, but around here, the brand name Apple is revered amongst our creative team. To us, Apple is kind of like Gretzky is to hockey (that reference was for you Mike): it has elevated the profession of graphic design into a household name. Thanks to Apple, everyone knows that if you work on a Mac, you must be capable of making cool graphic kind of things happen in the world.

Apple has been so successful in creating innovative products, and branding those products, that they have achieved a cult-like status among their followers, myself being one of them. I want everything Apple can make. Give me an iPhone, an iPod, Apple TV, a MacBook, an iMac, whatever they have, I want it. But, I'm not sold on their newest product, the iPad.

The iPad seems to be a giant-sized iPod Touch. And I already have an iPod Touch. I'm not too sure what I need it for. If I want to play music, do I look like a royal geek pulling out this huge ten inch iPad out of my purse at Starbucks? Not that I mind looking like a geek, but what I do mind is having it take so much room in my purse. A girl has limits you know.

So what's the verdict, does anyone want an iPad? I sadly and hesitantly must admit that I do not, and I might lose my prided membership to the Church of Apple because of it. (Don't hate me Apple, I still want a new MacBook.)