Consider how she likes playing all the crappy Flash-enabled games she gets her hands on from Facebook, or how she depends on Microsoft Office for work related stuff, I beg to differ.

The netbook experience is indeed horrible, however you can attach a real mouse, a real keyboard and a real monitor to it, or a combination of those, any time you want.

My colleague has an iPad. He doesn't use it. It just sits there on his desk. I played with it and it has potential because of the touch-screen. However, as long as it is a dumbed-down device, it's not useful enough to bother.

Of course, time will prove me wrong if I am.