I use a cheap Microsoft Surface clone as my main tablet. It is far slower than a current iPad, but also cheaper. Con: The app situation is dire. I generally us

I use a cheap Microsoft Surface clone as my main tablet. It is far slower than a current iPad, but also cheaper. Con: The app situation is dire. I generally use the browser instead of apps. Pro: It is an actual computer. You can plug in USB sticks, you can work with files, you can connect to a TV, you can program, you can use command line programs. For me, this outweighs everything else. In a pinch, I can whip out Emacs and write a Python program, or run ffmpeg to convert a video file, or debug a C++ program. All of this will be slow, because these cheap tablets are slow, but none of these are even possible on iOS/Android tablets. We should choose tools that empower us, not tools that take our power away.