I got an iPad 1 at launch and I have to say it has and still is quite superb, gently I did a silent audit of it's use over a week and was amazed that we all used it in many different ways, video, homework, shopping channel, reading, Internet, mail, games, music etc all of the family use it every day!
I would get another but have a mac air coming tomorrow. I love apple stuff after years of microsoft sh*t. For me it just.....works.