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Originally Posted by murg
Tablet hardware will also reach parity soon, the point at which additional grunt doesn't buy you as much as it costs. Then the low end tablets will have all the grunt they need, and as for the high end tablets...well, the Apple people will continue to shell-out for each new release...
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Most of the cost in tablets is the screen and battery to drive the screen.
That will drive the players that remain to the smaller sizes and at those sizes phablets are going to be very attractive.
Conversely, at the high end, keyboards don't add much cost and with the recent acceptability of chiclet keyboards they won't add much weight either.
I'm keeping an eye on the Asus T100 and new Dell Venue 10Pro. Especially the latter: Core M cpu and pen support at Android/Atom prices and weight. The pen in particular buys a lot of added functionality.