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I use the Asus Transformer with dock in place of a laptop for now until I can replace my desktop with a more full power machine. It can use an external HD, and has a SD card slot for expanding storage. It can run the Kindle App, The Nook App, and other readers like FBReader. It comes with Polaris office which is okay do to basic MS Office kinds of things with. It can handle all the basic functions, i.e. play video, games, flash, web, email, and etc.
Its NOT as nice as a low end laptop running Windows, and not that much cheaper, but I really like the touch interface of the tablet better then Windows for this kind of use. Plus the dock is optional, you can use it as a pure tablet with out the dock, or use the dock for the keyboard/trackpad like you would a netbook. In addition the battery life on the Transformer runs in to multiple days for me, low end laptops usually only run for several hours in my experience.
Before you make up your mind though, shop out low end laptops and decide if the trade off in features (full OS vs tablet OS) is something you are okay with.
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