Apple's iPad is Speedy--Because it Has to Be

The iPad has landed, rocketing its gleaming metal tech down on the dusty computing world to set up a new Tranquility Tablet base. But report after report notes iPad is anything but "tranquil"--it's blazingly fast. Why? It kinda had to be.

Before Joe Public got his mitts on Apple's wondertablet this weekend, we'd heard a few mentions from folk who used one at its January launch event, and then the official reviewers late last week, that one of the most impressive features of the iPad was its...