Personally I think an iPad is unbeatable for many kinds of content consumption. I do 90% of my comics reading on mine, it's vastly better than the computer or

Personally I think an iPad is unbeatable for many kinds of content consumption. I do 90% of my comics reading on mine, it's vastly better than the computer or phone for reading PDFs, it's great for playing casual games, it's decent for surfing the net. If I want to do content creation, I have a laptop for that. It's not about one device to rule them all, it's about finding the right device for the each job. That said, I didn't have a functioning laptop last week, and I actually got a decent amount of programming done using my iPad, a bluetooth keyboard, and an SSH app. I'm pretty sure that if I were a regular Emacs or Vi user, I could use it quite happily for that on a regular basis.