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Originally Posted by crossi
It's so much less precise and flexible than a mouse with a choice of rollover, right click, left click and scroll.
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Apart from having a proper keyboard, this is the main thing that moved me over to the Chromebook from the tablet. Even on a 10" tablet there's a lot of zooming in and out, pinching and pushing wide, to select links (at least with my eyes!)
Couple that with being able to page down with a simple tap of the space bar, and the larger screen, and I decided that while tablets do some things brilliantly, they weren't actually the best device for interacting with the web, for me.
Chromebooks share many of the advantages of large tablets - they're not as light and have a little less battery life, but the ARM-based ones in particular are light enough, and last long enough, start quickly and are fanless. I also really appreciate the synergy between my Chromebook and my ChromeOS desktop - which goes beyond just file synchronisation to complete synchronisation of the apps and layout - it provides an experience switching from one to the other that can't be matched between my desktop and my tablet.
My eInk reader has held its own for reading fiction, but the 10" and 7" tablets have also found their niches (as noted above).
I don't dislike tablets at all, to answer the thread question, but they've settled into a more limited use for me now, shedding some of the activity that seemed so exciting when they first came on the market.
Graham