anon8126715
Banned
Don't be silly.
Your Sleekbook weights 4 pounds and costs about $600-$700 for the base model. Adding $175 for a SSD and 8GB of ram is going to make the price close to $900. It is 13.6x9.4x.8.
An iPad weighs 1 pound and costs about $500-$929 depending on the options you want. It is 9.4x.6.6x.3.
Your laptop isn't half a pound heavier, its three pounds heavier. It isn't 4 inches bigger in dimensions, it is 7.5 inches bigger. Thats a really big difference in portability.
A laptop is a great device. I work on one for ten hours a day and wouldn't give it up for a lot of work. But I haven't traveled with one for three years. For email/web browsing/document viewing/very light document editing an iPad is a much more portable and much better travel companion. You are kidding yourself if you think there isn't a use-case where it is miles better for a traveler then a laptop. Not every traveler, but a lot of them.
But, so it a Note 3. For the last year, I have only bought my tablet with me on trips when I needed access to large books or spreadsheets, or when I wanted to catch up on my magazines.
I actually bought the sleekbook for $400 (yes new and courtesy of a sizable coupon, you just have to hunt), the 16GB cost me about $40, and the SSD ran me $135 (Thus $400 + $40 + $135 = $575). My Sleekbook weighs in at about 2.9 lbs from the factory and I'm betting a little less going from a conventional HD to a SSD (there's a noticeable difference in how much these different drives weigh). Even if we're talking about 2 lbs of difference, considering how much you give up in function over form, then as I stated, it doesn't make sense to me.
As someone that's worked in the IT field for over 10 years, the iPad presents a huge step forward in consumer entertainment electronics, but a huge step backwards in the realm of corporate IT, not just because of the limitations with Office products, but also because of how many more resources need to be deployed in order to facilitate an iPad in the corporate environment. I used to work for a company that would give a $50 iTunes gift card with every iPad deployed because they didn't want to invest in the infrastructure needed to manage applications at a corporate level. They found it easier to just give the end user the gift card and have them buy the apps as needed, which isn't very efficient. My statement still stands, 99% of ALL corporate endeavors can be handled more efficiently by something other than an iPad. An iPad is a neat toy, but an over-priced, overrated toy.
Below is the invoice for my SSD, I don't have invoices for the other devices readily available, but with a little research, you can always find great deals.
240631682 Toshiba 240GB 2.5" Internal Solid State Drive Upgrade Kit - SATA/600 $149.99 $0.00 $0.00 $149.99
80600430 $15 off $50 on Products from Shop Owners ($15.00) $0.00 $0.00 ($15.00)
TOTAL $134.99 $0.00 $0.00 $134.99
Please note that we bill for each product as it ships.