> I own both MacBook and Lenovo laptops for work and personal use (programming) and have never owned a tablet. I have never owned a tablet and still do not see

> I own both MacBook and Lenovo laptops for work and personal use (programming) and have never owned a tablet. I have never owned a tablet and still do not see a genuine use for them when my laptops can do the same thing but better and the cost of ownership is not negligible, You don't "get" tablets because tablets are not designed, nor marketed, to your demographic. You are the outlier, the 1% (or whatever percent, that's just made up), who needs a general purpose computer in order to "create". But most "computer users" are not creators in the sense of a programmer. They are mere "consumers". And they treat a computer as little more than a glorified TV where they can "click" with a "remote" (mouse) to access content, then passively consume that content. What little "creation" they do (posting something to their wall, twitter,, etc.) is easy enough to do from a tablet, so they don't see any difficulty that way. You, however, are not a passive "TV" like consumer of others content. You are a content creator. Your needs are different, and as such, you don't see a tablet as useful, because it does not fit your use situation.