DON'T DO IT!
I'm a huge tech geek and consider myself very progressive in integrating technology in my life to make everything more efficient (college senior and Apple lover). I finally bought an iPad on Black Friday imagining it would use it to take notes in class and that it would somehow replace my laptop as my go-to device, like I'd read some other people had successfully done. Truth be told though, its a huge pain in the ass to use it for anything other than email reading and watching TV shows. I downloaded a bunch of note taking apps and work and productivity apps, but none of them stuck. It was just not seamless enough between apps, nor seamless enough between iPad and Macbook to really make it that useful. Also, typing on an iPad in class was a bitch, and I believe its stupid to carry around a bluetooth keyboard when the iPad-keyboard combo is the same size and weight as my laptop and 1/20 of the usefulness. In the end, I returned it after the New Year. I'm thinking about picking up the new iPad Mini 2 when it is released, but now I won't delude myself that it will be used for anything other than entertainment.
I think the same situations can apply to any tablet device. No matter how much they tout being amazing handwriting or productivity machines, they really can't match up at all to typing or just plain pencil-to-paper writing. You'll want to tear your hair out at how many hoops you'll have to jump through just to get one page of notes on your device and transfer it successfully to the computer, translate it into typing, etc.
