Yeah honestly I don't get it either. So many simple things like for example, quickly opening 8 hackernews links on the front page in a new tab for future readin

Yeah honestly I don't get it either. So many simple things like for example, quickly opening 8 hackernews links on the front page in a new tab for future reading takes me about 5 seconds. On an iPad you'd have to long-press and open in a new tab, it'd probably take me half a minute. It's stuff like that which kills even a browser experience for me because a lot of my browsing is navigation and exploration, e.g. on HN or Wikipedia, rather than pure-reading on a single page for 30 minutes which is nice to do with a light Pad on the couch. Being able to organise a mini-session of 20 different wikipedia links with small tidbits of information relating to a central topic of interest, opening and closing them and switching between, is just so much easier on a Macbook with monitors, mouse and keyboard. Hell even typing this comment is trivial on a keyboard.