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Originally Posted by meeera
That depends on the kind of work you need to do with your portable device. My partner completely replaced his laptop with his iPad two or three years ago - dealing with customer and colleague communication (email and Skype, mostly), reading scientific papers, remotely monitoring lab machinery, and so on. He sits down at our home desktop computer maybe once every couple of weeks, if that.
Serious writers need a separate Bluetooth keyboard, but yes heaps of (but not all) people can and have replaced their laptops with tablets.
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Sure, I agree there are cases where a tablet might rival and even surpass a laptop for doing work on. I should have said 'producing content' rather than 'doing work.'
I recall a survey on the digital reader site of students' hardware choices. They overwhelmingly chose laptops over tablets. That agrees with your point about entering text. Laptops are much better to write on.