On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 07:28:24PM -0400, Daniel Staal wrote: > --As of July 20, 2011 5:45:49 PM -0400, David Jackson is alleged to have > said: > > > but you also have scanners, cameras, joysticks, capture devices for video, > > and so on that many common users love to use. A lot of people use > > computers for writing, home and office business work, and gaming, and > > given the choice between a 3" screen and a 20" screen, you want a 20" > > screen. Even facebook is better on a 20" screen. > > > > I stand by what i said, mobile is great for use on a subway, but when you > > get home, you really want a nice 20" screen to work on, and the bigger > > hard drive and faster CPU. > > --As for the rest, it is mine. > > *All* of which can be connected to a tablet just as easily as a desktop. > (Well, except for a faster CPU.) I know people who do so. > > Current tablets have USB, Bluetooth, and HDMI/Displayport. > > Can you do everything on a tablet that you can on a dedicated desktop? No. > But you can do most of it, especially if the people writing the software > and designing the add-ons know that's the market they have to work with. Adding a variety of devices to a tablet still wouldn't make it an attractive option for me. I can't imagine doing my CS degree course-work on one of them, it would be a nightmare. I even found working on a laptop frustrating given the length of study sessions sometimes.
Also, due to the nature of the course-work I absolutely could not work with anything other than UNIX and so I have to select my hardware around my choice of OS which of course is FreeBSD. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
