Re:Fever? (Score 1)

I think the point you're missing is that for the features you lose in a tablet, you gain "extreme mobility", which allows you to do things in places where previously you could not (or could, but with significant overhead). Call that a gimmick if you must, but that aspect has a lot of value for many people. You can watch TV while sitting "outside"...this is perhaps of less value to Slashdot readers :). You can read more books in more places, whip off a quick email, spreadsheet, document, graphic, whatever. If watching a movie on an iPad makes no sense to you, well, don't do it. But saying that it makes no sense for people who are doing it and enjoying it...well that makes just as little sense.

So what it comes down to is that if you have the money, and your tasks align with the features of a given tablet, you gain productivity (or just entertainment). In the not too distant future, tablets will gain most of the features desktops/laptops have, at which point your office could be entirely mobile...so i'm waiting for the iPad 3...or 4 or 5, running iOSX Snow Kitty that runs Xcode and Chrome.