A Laptop's CD and DVD Player/Burner: If you're into permanently saving photos, music, or movies, or if you're serious about backing up your hard drive and programs, you probably need to burn the occasional disk. Those relatives in Indiana need a copy of the video of cousin Paul's drum recital or they'd love to look at a CD with the pictures from your night trip to Alcatraz. You can't cram everything onto Facebook.

A Laptop's Keyboard: Most iPad users readily admit it's difficult to type anything that is data intensive on the that appears on the screen. I'll go further: I detest typing on a touch keyboard. As my friend and PCWorld reviewer Jon Jacobi sarcastically puts it: "Overpriced pads: Touchscreens without keyboards. How innovative." Flimsy, add-on keyboards don't cut it. Give me a solid, built-in board like the one on my ThinkPad. It's one of the best laptop keyboards ever, and I still like the old-school Trackpoint eraserhead cursor control.

The Storage Available on a Laptop:If you want to download and store tons of decent-quality movies, TV shows, videos, music, PowerPoint presentations, PDFs, etc., the iPad 2's 64GB of storage (the most available) falls short. Even the 250GB of storage on a decent laptop fills up faster than you think. (However, we do grant you that you can easily back up almost anything to or to a .)

A Laptop's Ports: No USB port on an iPad? Sure there are pricey adapters, but what if you want to plug in a mouse, digital camera, and/or printer? So much for the iPad's smooth lines and ease of use. Being able to insert a USB device or a thumbdrive into my laptop is essential to me.

As for Apple's iPad, here are a few of my least favorite things: