<p>Tough crowd.</p>
<p>I’ve had a lot of debates in an Intel forum over whether or not people will pay over $400 for these devices over really cheap laptops on the market right now. We’ll find out in a few months as to how well these will sell.</p>
<p>I sold my Intel stock back in August.</p>
<p>The $1,100 buys you the latest whistles and bells.</p>
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<p>ipad will remain supreme. Sorry.</p>
<p>One big disadvantage of Android tablets is the lack of tablet apps. There are tons of Android Apps but they are geared for smartphones. On Android tablets, the smartphone App is just scaled up. On the iPad, which has hundreds of thousands of tablet apps, the app is designed to use the larger screen. I think that Android has a few orders of magnitude fewer tablet apps, maybe under 200.</p>
<p>" Pen-based slates have been around since the early 1990s."</p>
<p>Yes but a pen based pc, laptop replacement that could run windows programs used to cost thousands! I paid more than $3000…but the pen had a tether , so…Areally good laptop cost more then, too. I just don’t see how you can compare an iPad or android tablet to a laptop, if you are talying about doing real work.</p>
<p>And that was sent from Samsung Galaxy 10.1 with plenty of apps! I mostly use the desktop setting when I’m surfing.</p>
<p>I paid $3,000 for my last laptop and it’s not pen-based.</p>
<p>For real work, I use a conventional laptop or a desktop. I use tablets mostly for media consumption and sometimes work. I use my iPhone for work, trading and general communications.</p>
<p>You can hook up a bluetooth keyboard, mouse and trackpad and it’s a PC though not x86 based. There’s a VNC App so you can log into your work desktop or laptop and work remotely from your tablet.</p>
<p>What are apps? 
Just kidding. Apps do not make or break the deal for me. Have not spent a significant $ on apps for my Apple devices. I do travel with both devices. When I get tired of working on my laptop, I put it away and read and surf the web on my iPad. Would be nice to have something like Surface. I would not touch a Sony computer though.</p>
<p>You are in the minority. People buy apps and that is why they buy hardware. Lack of tablet apps is why Android tablets have failed miserably in the marketplace.</p>
<p>There is a whole bunch of folks like me who do not care about having 3 versions of Angry Birds on their tablet yet want to have a lightweight, portable device that can fit into a purse or a small briefcase and can run professional software. Why? We need to work while on the road; we can play Angry Birds on… our phones (ditto for checking bus schedules, reserving a table on OpenTable, etc.). Android tablets are failing because they were late to the party and fail to provide either.</p>
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<p>I have thousands and thousands of apps available on my Nexus 7. The work as well as any other apps.</p>
<p>And I even have a Google maps app!</p>