The answer is, of course, you don't!

It's all context, man, context. When I'm walking on a beach or through a forest, then yeah, I don't want _any_ bulky devices anywhere nearby. (Heck, having an electronic device at all in those situations is probably odd to begin with.)

But 99.9% of the time, I'm not walking on a beach or through a forest. Here's my dream scenario:

Let's start at home (where I spend a great deal of my time, and where I suspect lots of other people spend lots of their time): I set my Jolla Tablet onto a stand, and plug it into the powered USB hub sitting next to it. Already plugged into that hub is my superb Kinesis Advantage keyboard and my comfortable Kensington Expert Mouse, along with an old terabyte hard drive containing some audio and video media, and a USB audio dongle connected to some cheap computer speakers (an audiophile I am not ). I have it play some music in the background and set it up to monitor my e-mail, while then moving to the standard desktop computer sitting on the other side of the desk to get some work done on that machine.

Later in the day, I decide to drive over to my brother's house. I pop the tablet out of the USB Hub (shutting down what needs to be shut down first, not sure how easy this will work) and go to my car. I connect the tablet to my charger, connect the audio output to my car's audio system, and listen to whatever podcasts I have downloaded to it.

Once I get to my brother's place, I help him out with managing the inventory sitting in his garage (as he's got a small retail business), using this fine old laser barcode scanner (which is much faster and easier to use than camera-based barcode scanning!) connected to the tablet. After that, we go back inside the house, and I once again check my e-mail (and perhaps do some more inventory-related work), using the tablet connected to my "breakout bag": basically a laptop bag containing a portable keyboard, mouse, and powered usb hub.

Anyway, something like that. The combination of a small, portable, battery-powered computer that you can use where bulky devices are inconvenient, along with the ability to use those bulky devices in situations where they are convenient. Best of both worlds!

I once had a big, powerful laptop; in fact, I still have it around here somewhere... It's got a truly comfortable keyboard, huge screen, plenty of CPU/Ram/HD space. Basically, an entire office on-the-go. And eventually, I realized that it was so dang heavy that I never wanted to take it anywhere.

A tiny portable unit plus an array of docking stations is definitely a better solution.