This shouldn't come as a shock to anyone: just because Apple's touting the "magical" $499 pricepoint of the iPad doesn't mean they're selling it at a loss. After carefully poring over the iPad's internals, iSuppli has added up a bill of materials as low as $259.60 for the 16GB iPad, including a $95 screen and $26.80 processor. The good news for us is that there's actually a lot more complexity inside the iPad than iSuppli was expecting -- they originally estimated the device at $219.35 in materials. For instance the touchscreen is controlled by three separate chips, which means down the road we can expect some of these separate bits of silicon to merge and drive down prices. What might seem silly and
