Wow! Thanks for taking the plunge for us Scott! I have been seriously considering on of these for months, but I decided to wait until after NAMM to see if anything comparable came out. There's nothing else like the Music Pad Pro that I know of right now, and I agree that a laptop isn't really comparable. The only other thing I thought might be an option for electronic sheet music would be if you used Scorch XF midi files, particularly with the Tyros, PSR3000 or other Scorch-compatible instrument... but you guys don't rely on SMF's enough to do that I think. I still think your going to wind up doing some scanning even with the downloadble music... what will you do when you have to transpose or rearrange actual sheet music? Well, BIAB and Acrobat will create pdf sheet music as one option... I'm sure there's many more.

Anyway, I will be very interested to hear your experiences with your new device... good luck. And thanks for the music links. I may be a Music Pad Pro user soon too.