I have a laptop, a desktop and a smartphone - I don't need a fourth device halfway between the phone and the laptop. The laptop is, IMO, already as pared-down as a device can be without simply losing functionality. They're thin, they're light, they've got plugs and compatibility with a lot of standard PC accoutrements, including external keyboards and mice for precision input with no muss or fuss. Making it any smaller, or with fewer ports, is simply too large a loss in functionality for literally nothing gained aside from herpderp touchscreen gimmicks, which are slower than mouse input at best and actively frustrating at worst (and let's not even mention the myriad problems touchscreen *gaming* has, where your hand gets in the way of the fucking screen half the time, a problem no developers seem to understand or attempt to address). The phone is fine for anything else - listening to music, watching videos on the fly, reading email (and even sending it with speech-to-text is fairly painless nowadays).
The only thing that could possibly tempt me toward a pad of any kind is some kind of exclusive app that is life-changing and so intrinsically connected to the design of the pad that it can't simply be better ported to any other platform. Until then, I'll pass on the mouse-incapable laptop-wannabe with even less beefy hardware (and thus less games compatibility). Pads seem like a niche technology aimed at people who would otherwise use a laptop, but can make do with losing half its functionality and adaptability. Great on them if they find it suitable; shit just ain't for me though. I need a computer that is still a computer.