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Originally Posted by Dylrob
I have used touch input in Windows before. Even with slightly bigger elements it just doesn't feel as natural to use; It's still clear that this was optimized for a mouse as apposed to a finger.
1. Hulu plus is annoying, though I don't think that's going to be enough to convience someone to buy a Windows tablet. (And for the more tech minded there are ways around it.)
2. The average user has likely never even heard of VPN.
3. With the kind of hardware that these low power tabletPCs would be running on, playing media in the background may not be the best idea anyway. Which brings up another point.... You say this device could handle either task equally well, but really their limited processing power would make them less than ideal platforms for stuff like photo or video editing, or playing modern PC games.
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I am not talking about limited processing power (those have been around for many years and are just too slow), I am talking about i5 or i7 CPUs with 4-8 GB of RAM and SSDs. That is what we will have by next year. The Asus EP121 is a first step in that direction -- but still stuck with an old processor type which means battery life is suboptimal.
So the only thing these devices could not handle is high-end gaming, since there is no room for advanced dedicated graphics. I think this will be just a natural evolution the tech industry will take, more capable devices taking over as they become cheaper and more convenient, even though not every user will need all functions. Just as smart phones are slowly pushing out dumb phones. And the "dumb" tablets would logically be pushed to the low end of the price spectrum. Not a bad thing to have such a device for 199 off contract, they will still have a big market.