Set your alarm clocks, iPad pre-orders begin 5:30 AM PST
This from 9 to 5.

I'm going for the WiFi 32GB which will become my wife's when the 3G's are available.
My poor wife is a Windows fan, but not for long :-)

Come to think of it, your right!
But I would like the option.

I use the clock app all the time. Mostly for timers and alarms. The clock app runs in the background! You can be running another app and it still works. But app developers cannot replace it with something else because only Apple can create background tasks!!!