I thought it might be too! But there are some people that swear by it (have even ditched their Macbooks in favor of an iPad). Neither of them does have a good

I thought it might be too! But there are some people that swear by it (have even ditched their Macbooks in favor of an iPad). Neither of them does have a good text editor (at least yet), but you are not limited by the native platform when using a VNC solution. Also, as mentioned if you keep your host device connected to your tablet, your VNC connection is always alive. All that said, it really depends on how you personally need to work - there is no one-size-fits-all solution. Personally, I would never use a tablet to get work done, although I have been thinking of ways to effectively turn them into supplementary monitors (2560x1600 for $400? I'll take it).