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It has a market, but not the kind of market that is worth chasing after. You WANT the person who will spend $2,000 on the MacBook AND then get the $600+ iPad. You WANT the double sales in both the Mac App Store and iTunes App Store.
The majority of people who currently have both don't want to change. At least the people who don't throw away their money at everything that gets shoved in their face don't.
I used to have a Tablet PC. It was a PITA because it used to do phantom touches. I would sit there for ten minutes just watching the screen react to the "touches" I was apparently doing. Now I use a Wacom Intuos and really enjoy it. However, it works well because I have the ExpressionKeys, the buttons on the pen, AND the keyboard. If I had to only rely on a pen and gestures, it'd be a complete nightmare. When I use at least 10 different programs with it, there's no way hat I could ever get efficient with it.
I have a Clamcase Pro on my iPad Mini (I'm actually typing this very post on it). I have the jailbreak tweak that lets me attach a trackpad/mouse to it if I need to. Multitasking is going to be great on it (I actually have the OS Experience tweak that I use too), but I don't need it to go farther than that. When I need to get into OS X, I can just VNC into it, it works very well at this small of resolution and screen.
13" is a very, very, very small screen for people who REALLY benefit from pen input too. It's not enough that it's bigger than a piece of paper. Most of the big drawing and 3D apps have these crazy interfaces that take a good chunk of the screen. The better resolution helps of course, but still.
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