Tablet vs Laptop

I think that notebook are better and, in my opinion, it's impossible to do the same things I do with a laptop on a tablet. Yes I can navigate, I've a browser, I can read my mails but... what about programming, graphic editing and audio, and many others things?! Tablet are closed and dangerous for users, (are programmed for this), they force users to use their dangerous services, and it's difficult to control how they do, (for me, I'm not expert). On pc/notebook with gnu/linux I can control better my operations, the programs that I use, (not all of course!), I haven't a stupid social and cloud programs integrated... I think that computers will never die for people that studying informatics and create programs... but there is a risk that in the future, for the major number of people that used standard funcionality, tablet will be a standard yes. There is the same relationship between pc and console/smartphone on gaming: for create a game programmers needs a computer, but users without experience can simply use a console or smartphone. For now I don't see the same freedom on tablet... and I love the phisical approach that I've on notebook, like books respect ebooks, for example: it's inimitable, different: it's another world. I use both, I want to stay updated with technology of course.
Sorry for my english, I'm italian ;-)

"Tablet are closed and dangerous for users,"
it still uses a non-free bootloader but you can run replicant on a tablet

http://redmine.replicant.us/projects/replicant/wiki/ReplicantStatus

I mean by default. We must think to normal users that don't know this things. Anyway thank you for the link ;-)

Note that GNOME Shell is designed such that it should work quite well on a tablet. (For the record, it does run on tablets; I only say "should" because I haven't personally experienced it. But I've heard that the experience is great.)

I kind of think tablets are silly. Depending on your perspective, they're either a less capable laptop, or a less portable phone. They might even be considered a less capable and less portable version of something like the OpenPandora, depending on your perspective. The only advantage I can think of for tablets is the combination of a large screen and little weight, and the only application I can think of for that is watching videos or reading things on the go.

But then again, maybe I'm just not the target audience for tablets, and there's something about their design that makes them more convenient than laptops in some other way. I reserve judgment on practical grounds for the time being.

Ethically, tablets are far, far behind laptops and desktop computers. There is only one specific (modern) tablet model that works with Replicant, and as far as I understand many of the others come with Restricted Boot. Additionally, the only working tablet doesn't have working wireless without non-libre firmware.

I don't see work being done on them in the near future, but I do think that it will inevitably move to them, or another, new medium, eventually.
I can easily see the average user on a tablet and not having a laptop, as most people pretty much only web-browse, play games, and watch videos, however.
That's why Replicant is important.

x86 tablets and modifiable laptops would be nice.

Ar' you kidding mate? give me 4 laptops and burn your tablets.

Tablets are for light weight use like browsing and playing games
but laptop pc's on the other hand are for work and all the other good stuff
you get the idea.

A tablet if AND ONLY IF it's a Compaq TC1000(-esque thing) with up-to-date internals ,(which then have to lead to) decent performance, and AGES of battery life.

Honestly I think what might kill PCs is the Internet of Things. Their self-professed goal is to make general-purpose computers obsolete by having everything become a small computer (toaster, fridge, driverless cars etc).

Which is all pretty scary I think...