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Originally Posted by Richey79
My iPad has reduced my computer usage a good deal. I use a Microsoft a-line (more ergonomic) BT keyboard with it, and so produce lots of writing, spreadsheets and presentations on it, usually making the last couple of finishing touches on a PC, simply because at this stage a mouse speeds things up a great deal.
For reading, browsing and writing, a tablet has become indispensible to me. There's no way this is a gimmick that I'm forcing myself to use. I am, by personality, not an early adopter of products.
The workflow of using applications like Instapaper, Office HD , the OED, Big Oven, Flipboard and Adobe Ideas is seamless for me and just 'fits'. It's much easier to, for example, find a recipe I like on Big Oven, paste it into my notes and then sync it to my Android phome to take to the supermarket, than it would be to do the same task with my PC or even write the recipe out by hand. Switching on the PC with its noisy fans (maybe my fault for pushing my components a bit hard, LOL), need to sit at my desk and the psychological feeling that I'm engaged in 'real work' crushes a lot of the fun out of it.
Sure, I'm not going to be getting rid of my PC in the forseeable future: I need it for Photoshop, formatting professional documents and downloading larger files. But I can certainly dump my laptop, which I always found to be too big and clumsy to be called truly portable - or comfortable to use anywhere but on a desk - anyway.
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Well, but what if the PC came in tablet form, fully functional OS and only slightly heavier than the iPad, 8 hours battery life and immediate startup? Wouldn't that be the best of both worlds? An All-In-One that perhaps costs 2-300 USD more? We will be there in a less than a year, we already do have some promising specimen out there or announced.
I still feel that those phone OS tablets are just a "transit stage", filling certain needs with reduced functionality that will be upstaged by real computers in tablet form as the hardware and batteries catch up. Just as phones have taken over the PDA market and MP3 players that would have virtually disappeared if not for the the fact that phones are sold on contracts in many countries.