Thread: PC sales Suffer Biggest Slump in years
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Old 07-21-2013, 05:50 PM   #403
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
"Faster at doing what" is the question that should be asked.

A low-power, "instant on" tablet, is indeed a "faster" device for note-taking than the latest all-singing, all-dancing notebook that takes 2 minutes to boot up, if note-taking is what you use the device for.
My wife has a big desktop at work, and a powerful laptop at home. Those could do all the above, plus ride horses, muck the stables, and move the cannon at Waterloo as well as Napoleon.

She had tried tablets but felt stymied with the input unless adding wireless keyboard and mouse.

We just got her a Acer C7 chromebook, 11.6 inch, 4GB RAM, 320GB HDD which is very small, handy, has a good keyboard and I got her a cute small travel mouse from verbatim that came in a red color. She is delighted. Doesn't lug the big laptop up to church or over to a friends house if they are working on those tasks that ladies seem to love and gravitate toward.

Frankly I am tempted. I did set up myself an account on the device.

For $219 for the chromebook and about $10 for the travel mouse that won't make a dent in the PC sales even if it counts as a PC, but these things are the wave of the future.

I will say this now that I have tried out the device.
Chromebooks will be a big success. They will basically take over the netbook market (have done it mostly already) and cut into the both the regular laptop market and the tablet markets.
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