It has been an interesting and fun 24 hours with my new iPad 3G. I want to touch on my experience so far. Setup:

The biggest task is getting setup. Not so much what to sync to the iPad. More of getting all the logins setup in the various applications. Email, Twitter, news reading to file syncing. First i needed to get the iPad onto my wireless network. I use a very nasty long wpa2 password. So i had to paste it into a text document and use my good reader app to sync it onto the iPad. Then it was trivial to copy paste it into the wireless settings. After that I could sync my 1password data over for all the other nasty passwords too tedious to type. It was just copy paste for each application going forward.

Power:

By now everyone knows that the iPad needs high power USB ports. So it is likely a lot of old power accessories won't work. I found my Hypermac nano battery for iPod and iPhone will not charge iPad. A pleasant surprise was that I found my Belkin travel surge adapter with two USB charging ports will work fine on iPad. That will make one less thing I have to change out when traveling. The last thing is my car power adapter for my iPhone will not charge the iPad. That is not the end of the world as I won't be using it in a car unless I am a passenger on long trips. Tip for 3G owners. Turn off the 3G radio when not using it if you want the battery life we have heard about on the wifi only models.

Audio:
My one gripe on audio. My nike earbuds will not stay plugged in. I had to use an adapter meant to use earbuds with a independent mic for iphone to get them to work. It seemed to be a short output only connector versus the longer with mic input band connector physical issue.

Books:

I have some technical books from www.pragprog.com. It was easy to download the pub format and drag it into iTunes. Then it just took a sync and my technical books were on my iPad. iBooks selection and pricing is not as good as Amazon kindle. So I have not bought anything through iBooks beyond public domain free books. The kindle reader app was not bad at all for nighttime reading under the covers last night. It has been years since I have read a good book on Drizzt the Drow elf. A PDF of Scott Sigler's Ancestor reads ok in Good Reader. Still not as nice as iBooks or Kindle for a reading experience.

That is all for now or I would be just repeating what many other folks have already put out there.

- Blogged from my iPad