The laptop/desktop form factor is a physical barrier to the kinds of things that tablets are good for (portability, drawing, good for reading documents while wo

The laptop/desktop form factor is a physical barrier to the kinds of things that tablets are good for (portability, drawing, good for reading documents while working etc etc). But there's not reason why you shouldn't be able to use the iPad for the stuff you currently need a laptop/desktop running mac os for other than software. I should be able to chuck a keyboard cover on an iPad and use it for all the same stuff I use a desktop pc for (albeit with a smaller screen), but I can't - because Apple intentionally puts a less feature rich operating system on the device (and has a restricted app store that explicitly disallows certain use cases).