along with some browsing the web and email, etc; perhaps heavy duty googling if I run across some obscure technical issue.
Definitely try it out to see if you can tolerate the browsing experience then. "Heavy-duty Googling" isn't something I'd even remotely consider doing with the Prime. I've used Chrome, Stock, ICS Browser+, Dolphin, Opera Mini/mobile, and not a single one provides a tolerable browsing experience for more than just checking out something occasionally. Painfully slow would be the major problem--and the browsers that run faster tend to be worse at rendering pages.
My wife and I both tried to replace our laptops with the TFP for basic usage, and to sum up our grand conclusion of this 3-month effort in her words, "This thing isn't for working, it's a toy."
Beyond basic word processing, Android's productivity suites are practically useless (Not Polaris, Officesuite Pro, QuickOffice, DocstoGo or Kingsoft Office could render my bar graphs or line graphs from Excel in an even remotely-comprehensible manner), and how things produced in these office apps will end up looking when opened in an actual MS Office program is always a mystery.
And for some reason, text entry (via dock or software keyboard) frequently lags for no apparent reason. Although, in my experience, that lag tends to calm down during extended typing.
After giving up and dropping money on a new laptop, I still prefer the Prime for some tasks though, and sort of regard it as a portable planner/reader/study tool/smart monitor.
For instance, it's a
great at pdf reading/annotation with software like Repligo. Email, calendars, and planners are great as well. I tend to do mind mapping on it as well, though those apps would be easier to use on a laptop--but I just don't tend to mind map whilst sitting at a laptop-worthy surface. Video-chatting and IM work well, too.