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Using a Tablet As Your Primary Computer
harrymcc writes "Three months ago, I started using an iPad 2 (with a Zagg keyboard) as my primary computing device--the one I blog on, write articles for TIME magazine on, and use to prepare photos and other illustrations that go with my writing. I now use it about 80 percent of the time; my trusty MacBook Air has become a secondary machine."
Now that decent keyboards exist for the iPad, I've been thinking about switching to an iPad for my main portable myself-- despite all the people expressing disdain here, I can't see any downside. Smaller and lighter, thus easier to carry everywhere, and longer battery life-- seems an obvious choice.
Once you need to add a keyboard to do anything useful (which you do) the whole touch screen thing becomes irrelevant, and you are simply carrying around an underperforming laptop. But as long as it's Apple, the drooling hordes will come.
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