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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Banshee16" data-source="post: 5567389" data-attributes="member: 7883">I've started bringing my laptop back and forth with me to the office.  I use it almost as a virtual tower.  I've got an ergonomic keyboard at the office at work, and I plug that, a mouse, and a second monitor.  Laptop keyboards (and by extension netbook and tablet keyboards) are too small to type on for long without risking strain issues.  I find that arrangement seems to work pretty well.Where I notice issues is the laptop isn't particularly beefy.  It was on sale back in 2009, and was a Vista machine with a free Win7 upgrade.  It scores like 3.1 on the Windows benchmarks.......any time I've got video on screen, or I'm trying to upload big files or I've got multiple programs open, it can chug.  A 4 GB upload to dropbox for one of my developers last night basically bogged the whole unit down and took something like 18 hours to complete.I can tell where I'd likely add a tablet......it's excellent for meetings....it's so much easier to leave the laptop plugged in on my desk, so I don't have to boot out of whatever I'm working on.  I can leave it plugged in, go to the client's office, not have to worry about if there's a power plug (my laptop will last about an hour or so with no plug), and I can easily pass it around to show what's on the screen to a client.If I had to choose between a tablet and a netbook I'd likely choose the tablet.  They seem to pretty much do the same thing...but the netbook is too close to gimped laptop.  My understanding is that though tablets have much weaker processers than even a budget laptop, the actual OS' they use are quite snappy and efficient compared to regular OS' like Windows 7.  Kind of like  having a 160 horsepower motor in a car that only weighs 2000 lbs.  No, 160 horsepower isn't much, but the vehicle weighs significantly less than other cars it's competing against, so doesn't *need* as much horsepower to be zippy.I've got clients using them at conferences, using them to collect sales data from mobile offices when they meet with their own clients, using them to store order forms, so their salespeople can be standing in a clients' office, fill out an order right there, and have it be online instantly, instead of what they were doing before, which was to fill out a paper order form, get the signature, and then have to go back to the office and enter it into a computer manually afterwards.  All those purposes *could* be accomplished by a laptop....no problem...the tablet is just so much more portable.Banshee</blockquote>

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