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patrickl:
--- Quote from: shmokes on April 21, 2010, 01:34:03 pm ---I have one of the first tablet PCs. It ran Windows XP Tablet PC edition. The tablet functionality was tacked on.
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The first tablet PC I've used ran on the pen version of Windows 3.1. I don't remember any lag, but that was in 93 so something that insignificant I wouldn't remember.
It's not just Tablet PC's. PDA's with big screens have been around for a while.
[/quote]Your mention of convertible tablets actually illustrates my point. Whenever an application works better with a keyboard and mouse/trackpad, just flip the screen around. But since 99% of the software is designed with a keyboard/mouse in mind, you end up using your device's tablet functionality about 1% of the time. I know many people who have had tablet PCs and for ALL of them it has been the same: Seemed really cool, but it turned out that I never use it in tablet format.[/quote]That's exactly my point. A tablet is simply not a very practical device due to the formfactor. You don't want to hold something for an hour and a half watching a movie. You want to set it down. If you go to websites you tend to want to type stuff on a forum. If you want to send e-mails you want to type text.
The only time you want it to be a tablet is when you read an ebook or maybe when you play a game.
CheffoJeffo:
--- Quote from: patrickl on April 21, 2010, 04:50:05 pm ---A tablet is simply not a very practical device due to the formfactor.
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The issue would then be the definition of practical. You seem to be basing your arguments on the iPad as a replacement for other devices, which it is certainly not. I have notebooks and a netbook and I crave a tablet. I'm not getting rid of keyboarded computers -- I totally need those and they are brilliant for doing what I use them for.
You cite posting on forums as indicative of web surfing, when that is exactly the opposite of the majority of web surfing ... unless, perhaps, you are Chad. Even when I browse BYOAC on a normal computer, the vast majority of the time I don't post. I never post from my phone, but browse regularly.
If you are looking for fully-functional portable computing, then I agree 100% that non-keyboarded tablets aren't it.
It seems to me that you see things with the same mindset as the guy who thinks that he can only have one cabinet. He may be able to play Chiller on his MAME cab, but it won't match the experience of playing on my original Exidy AND I can still have my own MAME cab in the corner as well.
shmokes:
Of course a platform is only as good as the software available for it (see: Atari Jaguar :) )
The iPad already has a lot of stellar software available (check out the videos for Geometry Wars and Scrabble, among others), and developers falling all over themselves to get more software out there.
This is, of course, the obvious reason that the iPad will succeed where Windows tablets have failed.
shmokes:
I never really thought about it before, but considering the cost of an unsubsidized iPhone (more than $500 on Ebay), the iPad does seem comparatively inexpensive.
patrickl:
--- Quote from: CheffoJeffo on April 21, 2010, 07:03:11 pm ---
--- Quote from: patrickl on April 21, 2010, 04:50:05 pm ---A tablet is simply not a very practical device due to the formfactor.
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The issue would then be the definition of practical. You seem to be basing your arguments on the iPad as a replacement for other devices, which it is certainly not. I have notebooks and a netbook and I crave a tablet. I'm not getting rid of keyboarded computers -- I totally need those and they are brilliant for doing what I use them for.
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I'm just saying that a tablet has very limited applications over what a netbook can already do and then at twice the price. Yet there are more things a netbook can do that a tablet cannot.
So sure they both have their specific applications, but you have to be very gadget oriented and flush with cash to warrant purchasing both.
I have to agree that an iPad is relatively cheap though. In 2007 there were the UPMC's and they cost well over a 1000 euro and weighed a ton. Miniaturization and costs of the components dropping is what makes these devices even remotely viable today.
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