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01-16-2010, 12:14 PM | #289 | |
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So I definitely think its achievable with a Tablet today...and HP is using similar batteries as Apple in some of their products. |
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Yes, and you can get the same out of MUCH cheaper Asus laptops, if a LCD screen is a requirement. I'm far more impressed with Asus's hardware work than Apple's lately...
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Oh, I couldn't agree more! The early tablets were just ahead of their time, I think. The batteries have been improved enormously and so have touch screens. If you look at computer development these days, it's not so much speed increases as effeciency increases that is more important.
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01-17-2010, 06:56 AM | #294 |
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Well, 8 hours while turning the screen brightness way down and putting the processor in slow mode for reading should be possible with current technology. But the battery must be pretty big and heavy and performance of such a device will be anything but "smoking".
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This isn't minimising things like intelligent cell-balancing, which has come into its own in recent years, but there have been advances in the basic medium as well - and fully working Lithium Air batteries have now been demonstrated. |
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And we will get incrementally better this and next year. But a lot of us are looking for a tablet that holds a charge for, at the very least, several days when used as a reader (since we compare it to the convenience we enjoy with current e-ink devices). So it is not easy to be satisfied with tablets at this point when the primary purpose of using one will be reading -- unless you are just using it at home. Last edited by HansTWN; 01-17-2010 at 07:36 AM. |
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I have a Mac mini and an iPhone and am extremely happy with both. In fact, it's been a very long time since I have been as satisfied with a mobile phone as I have been with the iPhone. The iTunes store is pretty much my exclusive source of music anymore. But I couldn't care less about the iUnicorn. My iPhone is pretty much a tablet PC for me as it is and whatever I can't do on it I can do on my Acer netbook. For reading tasks my Sony Reader suits me perfectly both in readability and in ergonomics. Unless Apple is unveiling something to do with enhancements to the iPhone software or to the iTunes store, their rumoured event will be a non-event to me.
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Yet at the same time I am not going to pay more for one of these tablet/slates than I can buy a new laptop for because to me a convertible laptop (not a netbook unless it's a 10" or larger and running Win7) which runs for 6-8hrs on a new battery is a better deal than a slate-type device of the same price even if it runs for 40hrs. I expect to pay proportionally less because of the more limited range of functions...I am only looking at my needs for business and not as some sort of just fun toy. |
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No different, than naming your company Yahoo, or Google. Or having a cute mobileread logo. I don't understand why Apple keeps getting attacked for its good design and intuitive UI. I get it, that some love dressing up from K-Mart, or love velvet paintings better than Miro, or prefer pulp-fiction paperbacks to hardcovers, but why this urge to sneer at good design? It reminds me of the similar attacks on models by the likes of Rosie O'Donnell - ah, they are too thin, must be anorexic, my husband like some meat, etc.... But the fact is, models get paid for a good reason, and Apple has a following for a good reason, too. And yeah, I personally can't wait to see what they bring to market. Cheers. |
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