Thread: Is the laptop and personal freedom dead?
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Old 02-02-2011, 01:49 PM   #5
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Originally Posted by Sweetpea View Post
I would like to see an Ipad-like device that can do everything my laptop can. That includes playing heavy DirectX games, running virtual machines (multiple), and simple basic programming tools, such as Visual Studio (considering I develop in .NET).

The Ipad already fails on the very first test: I can't connect my external HD, my keyboard, my mouse and my PDA to it...
The iPad works just fine with Bluetooth keyboards, but I take your point - my needs for a laptop are much the same as yours. There's no reason that someone couldn't make a tablet today which could do what we both require, but if it were the weight of the iPad, it would probably have a battery life of about 10 minutes .
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