Thread: Premium size tablet for ebooks?
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Old 10-27-2013, 10:10 PM   #12
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Originally Posted by betelguese View Post
Harry, I understand the iPad's aspect ratio advantage, however sometimes the letter size becomes small for my eyesight and I need to zoom in resulting in browsing a single page which is very uncomfortable. I can say this from my limited experience in testing it with friend's tablets or trying them at stores. hence the need for larger screens.
The 15+ inch screen market for AIO Windows tablets is very incipient:low battery life, not so portable, not perfect touch experience and maybe not so good for ebook reading as Petrucci pointed out. Maybe in 2 years when CPU's become ever more efficient and powerful the perfect jumbo tablet will be a reality.
With the arrival of the new Haswell processors you get 8-9 hours of battery life on Windows tablets. That is not the issue. Touch experience is as good as any Android or iOS device. Of course, the portability of a device with a 15" screen will be limited. But I am fine using my 13.3" laptop as a tablet. Definitely a great option, but not for everyone.
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