@XRAYBoY:
Watch out…that mentality is what makes Apple gain followers.
I bought a Chinese tablet for 100 Euros and I didn't like how it threw (normal, you've bought a piece of crap) Android. I buy an iPad with iOS5 and it flies. Of course!
My gadget is worth 500 leuros (with keyboard) and Android 3.2 flies (and more now with OC @1.5GHz) I assure you that I can compete with an iPad 2 and own my brother-in-law. :risitas:
If its job is going to be reading email, looking at news, etc…you won't turn on the laptop again. It doesn't make noise, it doesn't vibrate, the size, the weight, the comfort...there's no comparison.
As a counterpoint, in my case I use it less than I thought I would use it, since my love for the desktop goes beyond simple uses of little importance.
If you don't have Wifi, but do have a network (at work, for example) it's not worth much since it's focused on a continuous connection and without it has no value.
I assure you that, apart from the desktop, for me performance is the least important thing. I just want it to work (well, and to have reasonable response times). Besides, once I tried the Chinese one I would be aware that paying quadruple or quintuple is not just about having an apple drawn on the device.
Look, I have a netbook that cost me 170€ new. It doesn't perform much, but I always have it "suspended" so if I want to check something quickly, in less than 5 seconds it's ready. As for weight, I doubt it differs much from a tablet (and even if a tablet weighed much less, it wouldn't be important because we're talking about negligible weights). On these scales, this parameter doesn't seem significant to me.
The only advantages I see in the tablet compared to the netbook are two things: 1st as you rightly said, the noise (sometimes I put it on at night to listen to German radios and the fan is annoying). And 2nd that it's completely handled from the screen, without moving parts and can be handled in complete darkness. On the other hand, it's a device that can be used comfortably standing up, something a netbook doesn't allow, but that's something that doesn't affect me at the moment.
I'm almost certain that if I bought a tablet, it would end up replacing the netbook until I stopped using the latter completely. Then I would say that, indeed, a tablet is useful. But the outlay it involves (at least the good tablets), I don't think they are worthy of the advantages it brings compared to a netbook (for the use I'm going to give it).
But of course, I've never had one. In fact, I've never touched one and I'm probably wrong, but imagining the situation, this is my opinion