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I think we're seeing the effect of having low-end (e.g. ARM) processor power catching up to office-type applications. My smallest laptop's E350 processor (with SSD & 4 GB RAM) runs MS Office applications in Windows at a pace that is, at least at document start, indistiguishable from my desktop's blazing fast i7.
Most applications don't need anywhere near the power of the leading edge. Tablet capabilities are getting competitive for most uses. Content creation is still an issue. We can solve that with wireless keyboards and mice but then you might as well carry a laptop.
I'm curious to see how the tablet interface evolves further to reduce the need for traditional inputs. I'd still like to see good pen-based (digitizer) input as an option but that adds cost and the software isn't keeping up (unless you only run a particular pen-based app).
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