I run Emacs full-screen on my MBP anyway, so there wouldn't be much difference in terms of experience. But the MBP is much heavier, has short battery life, and

I run Emacs full-screen on my MBP anyway, so there wouldn't be much difference in terms of experience. But the MBP is much heavier, has short battery life, and does not allow me to do other things (quickly browse through 1000-page PDFs with the screen closer to my eyes, draw, take notes, annotate documents, etc). Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying "iPad will replace my MBP", but I would like to be able to use it.