I'm an apple hater generally, and an Android fan boy, so usually you'd expect me to say no-no to the iPad. However, I get to use the iPad a lot in work, and honestly nothing compares to just how polished it is, it's just so smooth and everything works the way you would like it too. And the main point I would say, it's not really even that expensive compared to the other tablets currently with the likes of the acer/xoom and HP - which is generally my main issue with Apple (price).
Honestly, how much more can you really want to do with a tablet than play some games, browse/e-mails/calendar and little apps, that's what the iPad has been engineered to do perfectly, all the other tablets imo are trying to go above and beyond and be something, that ultimately a tablet format isn't ideal for.