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Originally Posted by jabberwock_11
I run a medical clinic and use my tablet quite well as a replacement for my laptop. My tablet is an Asus Transformer, it has a keyboard dock which not only gives it usb ports and a total of 16 hours battery life, but also the previously mentioned keyboard allowing me to type and use it professionally. Tegra quad cores are also attracting a larger and larger percentage of game designers, and now that the Ouya android powered game console has been more than fully funded it too has started to bring in higher end game designers and companies. I also have emulators for most of the available game consoles, so I am good to go. Sure, I can't play the newest $60 PC games, but I am ok with the the $6 ones available for android that are just as good in design. There are better office solutions than MS Office (I never much cared for that suite to begin with). I personally use Polaris Office and my wife uses another program with zero issues. Adobe has a full line of tools available for android, including a PS set (albeit a scaled down version). I don't see android as a compramise at all, just early in development and quickly taking over.
My original statement stands, people see more value in tablets than in eink devices. That does not mean that there is no value in eink, just that the market for tablets is much more stable and is growing much faster. I love my Kindle, but I would be hard pressed to buy a new version when I could buy a tablet for nearly the same price.
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In other words, by adding a dock and keyboard to a tablet, you have created a home-brew laptop, only with less power and functionality. You are supporting my point; that a pad - as is - cannot replace a laptop computer.
I have used an iPad for quite some time, it is useful for keeping up with email, playing some simple games - Words with etc., and conferencing. Using it, or any of the other pads I have available - Toshiba, Asus, Samsung, etc., for real work is simply not viable. If I add a BT Keyboard I can type faster, but not using the programs that are of a business standard. By the time I have added a keyboard I am carrying more bulk that my current Macbook Air takes. The MBA has all of the software I use and runs it blindingly fast.
Pads are popular, they have a place, they are even fun, but from a productivity point of view, they are toys. The cost - here - for an iPad with a Bluetooth keyboard and a case is approximately the same as for the Macbook Air. As the size difference is hardly noticeable, how hard a decision is it to opt for more power and function?
Look at the two together. One is a powerful Core i5 computer with a four GB of memory, a 250GB Solid State drive, there is little difference in size or weight, and the cost is similar if you add your BT keyboard and carry case to the iPad.
That is now, wait another year. Computers are getting smaller, lighter, more powerful and cheaper. Do you really think that pads are the future?