Leave the desktop or laptop at home, but take your tablet with you to class so you can easily take notes. A touchscreen provides an intuitive and convenient way to interact with the system and has a dense enough resolution to keep images and videos looking rich and vibrant. The only buttons on the base unit itself are located on the sides and are composed of a power button and volume buttons.
Instead of carrying around a bulky laptop, you can buy a Hewlett-Packard Windows tablet and keyboard combo that weighs less than almost all of the laptops in the market yet still have the ability to do everything a laptop can. With connectivity becoming a ubiquitous commodity today and with computer technology allowing for more powerful yet smaller processors, the natural progression of tech improvements naturally leans toward tablets running a full Windows operating system.