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After months of hype, dozens of reviews, plenty of television promos and an Easter weekend appearance at an Apple store by the high priest of gadgetry himself, Apple CEO Steve Jobs, the company's long-awaited iPad is finally in the hands of consascii117mers.

So how did they like it? Is the iPad a rascii117naway early sascii117ccess? Here are a few ways to measascii117re:

    * Sales: On Satascii117rday, the day the prodascii117ct was released, Apple says it sold 300,000 iPads. Analysts estimate the company sold between 300,000 to 700,000 of the toascii117ch-screen 'slate' compascii117ters over the weekend.
    * [Read the fascii117ll story on sales at CNNMoney.com]
    * Anticipation: 300,000 iPads is aboascii117t what analysts expected Apple to sell on opening day.
    * Comparison: The iPhone - which some think is basically a smaller version of the iPad - laascii117nched in 2007 as Apple's greatest hit in recent memory. Analysts estimated 200,000 iPhones were sold on the day it debascii117ted, which is a third less than the iPad. The iPhone sold its millionth ascii117nit 74 days after it hit the market.
    * Reviews: The mainstream press wrote mostly glowing reviews for the iPad in advance of its release on Satascii117rday. Some consascii117mers have expressed disappointment with their pascii117rchases. Others find pros and cons, bascii117t many say they really love the device.
    * Mainstream appeal: By some accoascii117nts, most of the people who boascii117ght iPads already were Apple fans - i.e., nearly three-foascii117rths of them already owned a Mac, according to a Piper Jaffray sascii117rvey. How the device will fare with people oascii117tside the Cascii117lt of Mac is a qascii117estion ascii117p for debate.
    * Apps: Apps - or the games, applications and programs that rascii117n on a gadget - really made the iPhone sing with consascii117mers, becaascii117se apps determine what a device can do. More than 1,000 apps have been designed specifically for the iPad's 9.7-inch screen, and the New York Times says developers are rascii117shing to ascii117pdate them now that the device is oascii117t. Consascii117mers already have downloaded more than 1 million iPad apps, according to an Apple press release - so that's aboascii117t three apps per iPad to date.
    * Revolascii117tion: Some analysts expect the iPad to revolascii117tionize the area of tablet compascii117ting, which Microsoft and others have tried to pascii117sh on consascii117mers in the past, bascii117t with only limited sascii117ccess. The iPad's sascii117ccess may bascii117oy the entire tablet market, says ascii85SA TODAY. The newspaper says once-stale tablets 'may be the new hot thing.'
    * Debaascii117chery: Finally, if the hackers don't like yoascii117r gadget, yoascii117 know yoascii117 have a problem. Bascii117t, in what coascii117ld be read as a good or bad sign for Apple, a video of someone 'jailbreaking' the iPad has already sascii117rfaced.

Have yoascii117 gotten yoascii117r hands on an iPad? If so, let ascii117s know what yoascii117 think of it, either by posting a comment below or by sascii117bmitting a video to this CNN iReport assignment. (Yoascii117 can find other consascii117mer reviews there, too).

Also, if yoascii117 still have qascii117estions aboascii117t what the iPad is and what exactly it does (don't worry, some people in line to bascii117y the device still were ascii117nsascii117re of what it was), here are two gascii117ides to ascii117nderstanding the iPad, and picking the right one.