In my opnion, tablets such as the iPad are for consumers of information. People who wish to create info, write a fair bit or do programming away from home, need a small, light real computer.
This is written on an MSI Netbook. An iPad would be useless for my purposes since I have brought full computer application software installed on the tiny PC, I couldn't do that on an iPad or other tablet.
The screen on Netbooks doesn't have enough pixels vertically to display a full Web page. For that reason, I suggest what is now called an Ultrabook. They are small, light laptops without a CD/DVD drive. A colleague has had a Sony PC of this type for a number of years and he uses it both at work and at home. This genre of machine has just now been discovered by the marketeers and dubbed the Ultrabook. The MacBook would probably be classified as an Ultrabook.
Don't be trapped into an iFAD, when a real computer would have the growth ability to perform real computing tasks, not mainly just display info.
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