What do you guys use your Tablets for?

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Originally Posted by Speed2K

I was also tempted to buy one recently but decided to wait a bit. I like the portability of a tablet but dislike the fact that some of them lack USB connections. When traveling I like to bring my laptop and a portable hard drive to back-up my pictures, I don't think this is something that a tablet can do...yet. Also I'm too used to having a keyboard. I'm using an older Thinkpad, the X60; I had bought it primarily for it's portability, though it's still over 2x heavier than an ipad 2 and the battery doesn't last nearly long enough, for the most part it does most of the things people mentioned on this thread without being as heavy as a traditional notebook.

All tablets running honeycomb 3.2 support usb mass storage. My xoom uses a microusb adapter to do it. The Samsung has a dongle. So basically you just need an adapter

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Originally Posted by Speed2K

I was also tempted to buy one recently but decided to wait a bit. I like the portability of a tablet but dislike the fact that some of them lack USB connections. When traveling I like to bring my laptop and a portable hard drive to back-up my pictures, I don't think this is something that a tablet can do...yet. Also I'm too used to having a keyboard. I'm using an older Thinkpad, the X60; I had bought it primarily for it's portability, though it's still over 2x heavier than an ipad 2 and the battery doesn't last nearly long enough, for the most part it does most of the things people mentioned on this thread without being as heavy as a traditional notebook.

Just announced Asus would be perfect for you then.

Preview: ASUS Transformer Prime ushers in the Tegra 3 era starting at $499 in December | Android Central

Quad core, keyboard, sd slot for your cam's card, 18hr batt with dock, hdmi port etc.

I'm still puzzled as to why they insist on not pushing storage capacity up to 128g, tech is there, customers are willing to pay close to 1k for a tablet etc. Yeah, all that macho processing power/gpu to rock full hd / 3d monster games but 64g storage.......

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So I actually decided to go with the blackberry playbook, I made this decision before that Walmart sale was unofficially announced. But its just the cherry. Thanks guys for all the help, the pairing with the blackberry contacts and email and data was pretty much the go factor for me.