It's hard for me to think of many uses for tablets outside of gaming, since it seems I could do everything more easily on a computer without having to paw and claw at an expensive touchscreen. Games I can understand, and so it's somewhat telling that games are the predominant focus of tablet users.
According to a survey, an overwhelming 84% of owners use tablets for the playing of games, while 78% use it for searches and info gathering. 74% of them also use there little rectangles to send emails, and if you really care, 61% read news, 56% use social networks, 51% enjoy music and video content, 46% use them for e-books, 42% shop and 19% have "other" uses (porn, obviously).
Google's AdMob conducted the survey, polling 1400 tablet owners. The results also show that 43% spend more time with tablets than with their computers, while a third use it more than their televisions. 68% use theirs for at least an hour a day, and 83% use them primarily at home.
So yeah, tablets!
Games are number one use for tablets - survey [GI.biz]
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8:00 AM on 04.11.2011 | 
I do character modelling, so I have a cintiq for Zbrush and Photoshop purposes... and that's what I use it for. Never even thought about using it for games, always just saw it as a work tool. My mind is blown. The possibilities! ;P
Including games, though.
I bet any amount of cash that the question was asked as "Which of these things have you done on your tablet?" so even mums who downloaded Angry Birds and played it once will be included in the gargantuan 1400 person survey.
Oh wait, tablets are stupid. Seriously, outside of touch support - which is not that big of a deal and makes almost everything *more* difficult - what do tablets have to offer?
.. both my husband and my mother strongly prefer using the IPad as opposed to a computer. My parents are considering getting rid of their PC and just using the IPad. They figure the only thing they would need the PC for would be the IPad updates, and they can just get me to do that for them on the odd occassion when one releases. Aside from that, they don't see much reason to bother keeping their PC anymore.
... though now that I think about it, my Mom has been trying quite a few of the games I loaded on to her IPad...
(and for those wondering what tablets have to offer over PC's or even the iPhone/iPod - it's the reading - beautiful magazines, web based magazines (hard to describe... but look up flipboard), full streaming TV, the daily newspapers... they're all ideally suited to a tablet)
The main uses of my iPad is comics (making and reading), A sketchbook, internet when not at my computer, news feed, notes, script writing/book writing/blogging. Gaming is like way at the end of my list.