The ‘iPad’, a simple memorable name form a company renowned for producing simple to use and effective computing equipment.

This tablet PC is the latest ‘must have’ gadget to be released by emerging hardware leader Apple, the PC is designed to be extremely portable at 0.73 kg yet a highly effective computing device boasting a 1GHz processor. For the non technical – it also looks fantastic!

Functionality seems fairly unlimited, the iPad can do anything that you are likely to want it to do including surf the internet, write documents, send and receive email, watch films and listen to music. In fact the vast majority of the applications provided for the iPhone and iTouch will be fully functional on the iPad.

It isn’t yet available for release, however, it will likely fly off the shelf when it released later this year.