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Android MAME with online scoreboard, for all
ahofle:
Cool application, I will definitely be checking it out. :cheers:
--- Quote from: Oraap on June 14, 2012, 03:47:25 pm ---So, how long do you think it will take before you change your PC for some tablet or phone? Or is there maybe some reason why PCs would still remain for personal home computing after all?
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We recently got a couple of tablets in addition to our existing smartphones, a netbook, a laptop, and a couple desktops. When we picked up the tablets I thought I would never use the laptop or even the netbook again, and only use the desktop when I needed to do something like rip video or music. In reality, when I need to look something up or get on the internet, the tablet and smartphones are my last choice. They have essentially become overpriced portable game systems for our kids with crap like 'wheres my water' and 'ninja fruit'. I can't stand touchscreen keyboards and touch screens in general. I just don't find it natural or comfortable to press a bunch of tiny non-tactile square regions on a screen that look like keys. I find myself attempting to use voice commands to text or answer email on my phone now, and even then I am constantly going back to manually correct the inept auto corrections. The pointing devices on laptops/netbooks suck compared to a good mouse with a scroll wheel, but I still prefer them over the tablets/phones.
So to answer your question, no I don't plan on replacing all my computing devices with a smudgy piece of crap tablet. :)
Oraap:
--- Quote from: ahofle on June 14, 2012, 11:55:58 pm ---Cool application, I will definitely be checking it out. :cheers:
--- Quote from: Oraap on June 14, 2012, 03:47:25 pm ---So, how long do you think it will take before you change your PC for some tablet or phone? Or is there maybe some reason why PCs would still remain for personal home computing after all?
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We recently got a couple of tablets in addition to our existing smartphones, a netbook, a laptop, and a couple desktops. When we picked up the tablets I thought I would never use the laptop or even the netbook again, and only use the desktop when I needed to do something like rip video or music. In reality, when I need to look something up or get on the internet, the tablet and smartphones are my last choice. They have essentially become overpriced portable game systems for our kids with crap like 'wheres my water' and 'ninja fruit'. I can't stand touchscreen keyboards and touch screens in general. I just don't find it natural or comfortable to press a bunch of tiny non-tactile square regions on a screen that look like keys. I find myself attempting to use voice commands to text or answer email on my phone now, and even then I am constantly going back to manually correct the inept auto corrections. The pointing devices on laptops/netbooks suck compared to a good mouse with a scroll wheel, but I still prefer them over the tablets/phones.
So to answer your question, no I don't plan on replacing all my computing devices with a smudgy piece of crap tablet. :)
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Touchscreen is only when you're on the go, but when you get home or to your office then you plug in real keyboard/mouse and connect it normal monitor. It's a computer just as any, only in smaller box.
ahofle:
--- Quote from: Oraap on June 15, 2012, 12:54:36 am ---Touchscreen is only when you're on the go, but when you get home or to your office then you plug in real keyboard/mouse and connect it normal monitor. It's a computer just as any, only in smaller box.
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True, but if you're tethered to a large monitor and keyboard/mouse for optimal usage, you might as well also have a larger desktop CPU with 5 times the processing power and storage sitting there too. I still use the phone for on the go -- I like having both. I still haven't found a good use for the tablet yet though. Maybe permanently sitting in an iCade. ;D
Oraap:
I think 2Ghz CPU is enough for like 80% of the consumer market. I think we have plenty of speed now and that future of home computers will be more about making things smaller.
You have iCade? Are you using it with iPhone or Android?
Oraap:
Here is something interesting. The application has more than 600 downloads now, only no one is posting their high-scores. I need help to figure out why is that so. If anyone tried it please tell me how easy or not easy was to set it up. I'd also like to hear opinions about the sensor controls.
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