Why an iPad + For i when a netbook + emacs is cheaper, has longer battery life, can have built-in 4G networking, and so on?
If you want to do real work with a computer, get a real computer, not an overpriced novelty.
If you want to do real work with a computer, get a real computer, not an overpriced novelty.
The ultimate coding/writing machine for me would be a full-size Lenovo chassis/battery with a 7 inch screen and a 500mhz arm CPU.
Plus maybe some solar panels on the back of the screen so I could conceivably go a summer without plugging it in.
I'm seriously considering hacking one out of one of the cheapo Android tablets, but if Lenovo would just release the Skylight already I'd just buy one of those and probably plug a real keyboard into it.
(One problem with netbooks is that they cut corners to be cheap. I would like to see what a non-corner-cutting netbook could do. The Macbook Air is pretty close.)