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Originally Posted by HansTWN
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.
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One problem is that Windows and most of its applications are still very poorly optimized for touch input. Having been designed around the keyboard and mouse.
Also I don't think the overwhelming majority of users actually need something that complex.