On Sat, 2011-12-03 at 13:48 -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote: > Alan Cox wrote: > [...snip...] > > >> that were once solely the domain of PCs. Tablets are quickly displacing > >> laptops in the business world. The main barrier is that they are more > > > > I don't know where you got that from, but worldwide tablet sales hardly > > back that up. > > > > There is one point that is being missed though, critical to the whole > > argument. Try using Fedora 15 / Gnome 3 on a touchscreen - its absolutely > > unusable because of things like the window resizing behaviour. > > > I think the tablet is a valuable tool, but it doesn't exist in the same space > as > a PC. If the imput limitations are not an issues, and many people are just > consumers on content, then a tablet will serve. If portability is an issue, > and > ease of use without a mouse matters, the tablet is a better choice,. no PC > needed. ---- as you some allude to in your next quoted paragraph, tablets are not an either / or proposition but rather an alternative and thus, usuable for 80-90% of typical computer uses. ---- > I'm planning to buy the new Eee Transformer, it provides the benefits of > both, > and the means to use whichever configuration suits. A tablet for walking > around, > and a real keyboard and better resolution mouse when doing typing tasks. It > will > not replace a big PC for major word processing, unless it has a lot better > keyboard feel and CPU power than I expect, but for a few days on the road it > serves just fine. ---- Evidently the Transformer Prime pre-orders have greatly stripped Asus's ability to deliver in the near term. Good choice - good luck getting one.
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