I often think about how my computing life would be different if I weren’t a professional blogger. I mean, I have my laptop on me at basically all times just in case I have to duck away and write something at a moment’s notice (it has happened more than I care to admit). But if I wasn’t a blogger, what would I use? And more broadly, if I wasn’t in the neck-deep in the tech sphere that currently controls my life, what would I use?

The answer is simple: an iPad.

Ahh! Fanboy alert! Ahhh! Run for the hills! Stop reading! Comment immediately! I know. We’ve been through this. I would say that you could replace “iPad” with “tablet”, but the problem is that there aren’t any other tablets that are worth a damn. So iPad it is.

Here’s the thing: at first, I wasn’t completely sold on the iPad as a PC replacement. And for my current line of work, I’m still not. It’s simply too hard to type more than a hundred words on the thing. You hear this refrain over and over again in the press. But it’s paradoxical. The press has to write about and review the iPad because that’s what they do. But they’re also the worst possible candidates for iPad usage.

I’ve slowly come to realize this over time. When I went on vacation a few months ago, I brought both my laptop and my iPad. I promised myself I wouldn’t do any work during the trip — as a result, the laptop never came out. Not once. The iPad? I used it every single day, for hours.

That’s important. The key is that I love computing and the web. Even during my off time, I love it. Yes, disconnect — blah, blah, blah. I’ll do what I want. But I’ve been trained over time to think that the traditional PC is the way to do these things whether it’s for work or play. That’s simply not true. The tablet form factor is so. much. better. when you don’t have to do an excessive amount of typing. And during downtime, when I use a computer like a more regular human