A buddy of mine “upgraded” to Windows 8. He hates it so much, he paid a significant amount of money to get a copy of Win7 for his laptop.
OTOH, the company I work for has migrated everyone to iPads. It works fine for the majority of people who are primarily text and web oriented, but for me, who is a photo and video person, I’m stuck with my old PowerMac G5 for all eternity. They hate paying for software to such an extent that they found a company that sells used G5 machines cheap so they can replace computers for less than the cost of new software licenses.
I would have thought you would love the photo and video capabilities of an iPad.