I recently bought a Google Nexus 7, and love it so far. For you to understand how I got to this point though, I'll need to start from the beginning... I was always a skeptic when it came to owning a tablet. In fact, I held fast to the idea that they were pointless. Until now. It all started in 2010 when Apple came out with the iPad. It seemed to me like a nice toy to play around with. A luxury item that the wealthy could flaunt in the faces of the rest of us while they gleefully loaded up Angry Birds on the morning train to work. In other words, nothing that had any practical use. I just didn't get it. A 10 inch fragile screen that does everything a budget laptop can do, for twice the cost. On top of all that, it lacked a keyboard, so it would be useless for word documents and taking notes. As someone who often finds themselves in a classroom, I did not find that at all attractive. Flash forward two years, and my perspective has reversed. This is mainly due to two reasons: th...