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Originally Posted by HarryT
So Apple may be coming out with a tablet computer. It will be a "tablet Mac" as opposed to a "notebook Mac". Is this really something to get excited about?
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I wouldn't be for tablet Mac, but if it's something like a 10 inch iPhone/iPod touch I could be interested as it would be a great multimedia device, and may allow for easy highlighting and annotating of PDFs and other documents.
I don't care so much about Apple per se (never bought an Apple product) but I'm just interested in such a device period.
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Originally Posted by jj2me
I don't understand what you're saying. A Tablet's stylus doesn't just act like a mouse. It can also be used for text entry, or free-hand scribbling in whatever apps support this. In fact, the comparison to a PDA stylus is almost perfect if you buy one with a passive digitizer (not that those are better than active digitizers).
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What I'm saying is for the couple of tablet PCs I've used, if you wanted to click on a program or something you couldn't just tap it. You had to move the cursor around with the stylus like you would a mouse and get it over top the icon etc.
And the writing has been very non-intuitive on the few I've seen, and I struggle to write small and legibly with my terrible penmanship. I really need something where the writing feels just like writing on paper and can be done as small and neatly as quickly and carefree. If I can't easily scribble notes in the margins of PDFs etc., such a device loses a lot of appeal for me. Guess what I'm saying is that the touch screen sensitivity and precision on the one's I've tried out wasn't good enough for me.
But maybe the tech has gotten better since I last played with one a couple years back, and then it's just a matter of having a small 10" (or maybe 8.5" x11") vs the larger ones as I want something small and lite to carry around.
So I'm hoping Apple comes out with something like that, as I have high hopes that they'd get the screen right given how good the iPhone screen is. Though I worry that their tablet may be a finger touch screen and not designed for writing with a tablet. Which could be the case if they're just going for a larger iPhone type device rather than a more traditional tablet.