What sort of tablet are you going to buy without a USB it can be only been built for a price. So if you don't have USB you can always upload to the cloud then down load to your tablet. How many millions of people are now quite happily using tablets all over the world who don't worry about having a disc drive and then there are all the Ultrabooks who also don't have drives. If you are seriously considering a tablet, if you can afford one get one which has a USB port as you can run some apps through a USB Pen/Flash drive.