...I still cannot fathom how anyone considers them a device for productivity.
Take my wife for example. Her iPad has replaced her netbook completely and it actually does more than her netbook did for her.
Countering my claim that tablets are not good for productivity by saying "they're better at productivity than a netbook" is not a very strong argument
And this is coming from someone who liked his netbook quite a bit for a long while.
I define productivity differently, I suppose. I'm thinking of the things I do on a desktop computer, and how they take four times as long, if I could do them on a tablet at all. And yes, reading large amounts of things on a tablet is much nicer, but I completely disagree on the typing part:
Keyboard ? Has a perfectly usable one thanks.
I really have to ask what usable means. For a sentence? For a paragraph? For a long email? For a term paper? Personally, anything more than a sentence drives me nuts.