I agree with you. I have an Asus Transformer that I use 99% of the time in laptop mode and never had any ergonomic issues with it because I just use the touchp

I agree with you. I have an Asus Transformer that I use 99% of the time in laptop mode and never had any ergonomic issues with it because I just use the touchpad on it most of the time. As you mentioned, every Win8 hybrid I've seen includes some non-screen pointing device (touchpad, thinkpad nub, whatever). So really this should be titled "Using an iPad as a laptop is a terrible idea, because iOS has no concept of a non-screen mouse-like input device, unlike Windows 8 and Android which do", but I guess that's getting a bit long.