I guess you&#x27;re paying for a good screen, working stylus, thought out product design, a smart touch UI&#x2F;OS and being able to continue to use existing Apple purchases (media, Apps). None of these things are easy to &quot;review&quot;&#x2F;compare and that&#x27;s probably why it&#x27;s hard for people to find an &quot;objective&quot; argument for its pros&#x2F;cons.<p>I never understood the hype around the original iPad, it always bothered me that the OS was so restricted&#x2F;black-box-y. Not really in-between a laptop and an iPhone but rather... a bigger iPhone. To understand, I first had to realize that the appeal has nothing to do with being able to install programs freely or have mouse-pointer precision. It&#x27;s all about carrying a small-notebook sized screen around that&#x27;s smart enough to surf the web, watch movies and view PDFs. It seems not worth 400€ when you already have a laptop, but from a usability POV, it kinda sorta is. These things aren&#x27;t really there to replace office computers after all, they rather replace anything else you have lying around.