Calendaring – iPad is better than a traditional laptop because of its integrated google apps exchange support.

Multiple languages – iPads keyboard changes on the fly to most any language you’ll need.

Speech recognition – iPad has a wealth of excellent speech recognition apps, that, because they use the cloud for processing, work better than what we’ve seen on the desktop for years.

Battery life – the iPads battery is phenomenal.

Portability – iPad is incredibly light.

Apps – WordPress makes a beautiful iPad app, something they don’t do for macs or windows pcs, Bank of America, Evernote, and others are making apps that are nicer than their desktop counterparts, more functional, and are far less expensive to boot. Incredible.

Last Week, at Ted an amazing demo of Bing’s new map technology was demoed, see the below video if you haven’t yet:

Now, this morning Google Maps is offering “Labs” feature if you’re signed in, and using Google maps, these features are quite basic, some, including “Smart Zoom”, which prevents you receiving the “no data available at this zoom level” message, one would have hoped would be a standard behavior of the maps, and another, “Beta” which adds the Beta label to Google Maps indicates pure silliness, and perhaps at a deeper level the reality that as awesome as google maps are, maybe in light of Apple’s own placebase technology, and Bing’s killer Augmented reality maps, Google’s maps really are only in Beta, Thoughts as always, welcome in the comments…

Apple today announced a powerful looking update to it’s final cut product.

Apple has priced it at $999, but very nicely priced the upgrade to the new studio at only $299, virtually ensuring that professionals will instantly adopt this new suite.

Apple describes the main features of final cut studio 4 thusly:

As the next major release of the leading video post-production suite, the new Final Cut Studio offers powerful new features, dramatically improved performance, and tighter integration. Its six applications give video editors all the tools they need to edit, animate, mix, grade, and deliver — at a price that’s more affordable than ever.

Applications included in Final Cut Studio
Final Cut Pro 7 for video and film editing
Motion 4 for motion graphics and animation
Soundtrack Pro 3 for audio post-production
Color 1.5 for color grading and finishing
Compressor 3.5 and DVD Studio Pro 4 for digital delivery virtually anywhere — Apple devices, the web, and disc

You can read the full list of new features here:

http://www.apple.com/finalcutstudio/whats-new.html