[General Questions and Answers] Zeuszoos:
It has for me. I am disabled and in bed almost 24/7 and I can't even sit a laptop on my lap/legs while I'm laying in bed, so this is what I use (see sig), just off to my side a bit on the bed. It does have (when incl my KB dock) an SD Card slot, a Mini SD Card slot and a USB Port and I have a USB strip that has 12 ports, that works fine in it and I can plug in multiple USB sticks & devices, incl a KB and mouse if I wanted, but like I said, I have the ASUS KB dock already and it has a way cool glide pad with a "mouse button" type button on it. And this ASUS does not require an OTG (Host Mode) cable and reads both FAT32 & NTFS file formats on the USB sevices. I could even run an external USB Hard Drive onnected to it, although it would not be wise to use the tablet for its power source and the drives case should have its own power cable to plug into an outlet. Unless maybe I have the tablet plugged into an outlet when I plug the USB HD into it, I don't know. I haven't tried that. :)

While I would like to see one of the new 12" screens that I know are coming, this screen is a good size for a tablet and I do everything except dowbnload large files on my tablet. And since I have 64GB of storage on it, pus SD Cards, I could do that as well. Plus I'm tied into my NAS Server, so I can just copy stuff off to that as well and even run things from the NAS.

I do my web browsing from my tablet, I do my banking from my tablet, edit photos, listen to music, play games (only 1st person shooters are not so good to operate on it) and I even do my stock trading on it. :)

So for me, having this fast tablet (see sig), it has been fine and I have enjoyed it. I was doing it with my Samsung Galaxy 10.1" Tab, but it was not as fast and it required an OTG cable that had to be plugged into the bottom of it where the charging connector is and so I used to have to turn it upside down to use it when I had USB devices connected, although I did get it to use my 12 port USB strip and read NTFS.

Btw, for any users in that situation, an OTG cable will take care of FAT32 USB devices (easy to find and made for the Glxy) and an app called "EzyMount" will make it able to read both NTFS and Ext2/3/4 USB devices (EzyMount will just ignore any FAT32 devices). It does work! That's not an ad. I have nothing to do with them. It's just an FYI from my experience, to try to help someone else out.

So anyway, while there are certain things I'm sure that are better on a laptop, I'll tell ya, it's pretty rare that I fire it up. Only when I need to burn a disc, or when certain web sites just won't work properly in an Android browser. But I really only go to my laptop less than a half dozen times a month and then only for a few minutes at a time. So I would say yes, a tablet can, for lack of a better way to put it, "99% replace a laptop". And for users who didn't have one and were given a tablet as their first "computer", they won't even miss not having a laptop. Especizlly if they have a KB hooked up, which will allow them to type documents in school, etc.. Look at the netbooks. They're only like 11"-12" screens and have a KB and glide pad and not a lot of storage, slower CPU's than I have in my tablet and not much more RAM, which they only need more of because they're running Windows and they get along fine. So hey, why not? :)

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Zeuszoos

ASUS Transformer Pad Infinity TF700T 10.1" Tab. 64GB, WiFi

nVidia Tegra3 Quad Core CPU/12 Core GPU, ICS 4.0.3, Rooted