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Originally Posted by BeccaPrice
Am I alone in not liking tablets? or maybe I just haven't met a good one - the only one I've used much is the iPad 1, and I find it too heavy and awkward-shaped to use for long.
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It depends on what you use it for.
I have a full workstation (PC), a laptop, a tablet, and a smartphone, and I use all of them. The phone's for looking stuff up on the go. The tablet is used to read PDF files, visit websites, and quickly looking things up without needing to boot the entire computer. The workstation PC is used for everything else, and the laptop has comparable specifications and the same software installed: I use it when I need a complete system when not at home.
Looking up websites, reading PDF's and comics, reading forums.... it can easily be done using a tablet. However, if I have to DO something (as in, answering an e-mail that says more than "Hi, OK"), I immedately grab either the laptop or the PC.
For me, a tablet will *never* replace a PC.
My father however (at 72) wanted to look things up on the internet. News, bird stuff, that sort of thing. He now has a tablet on a nice stand, and looking up sites and reading is the only thing he does. Five years ago, he would have needed a notebook for this. A tablet works fine, so this is one less notebook or PC that's being sold.