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Originally Posted by dmaul1114
Those are Tablet PCs. I don't want a tablet PC. I want something about the size of a legal pad (will have to be a heaver of course) with no keyboard etc. bulking it down.
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I agree. Too many posters here seem stuck in the "it's never succeeded yet, and there's nothing out there NOW that I'd want to use" mode of thinking, while others are trying to operate in the "gee, what *I* want is
this..."
The closest thing I've seen to what I want in a slate/tablet/reader can be seen by watching almost any Star Trek series except for TOS (TNG, DS9, VYGR, Enterprise). They have 'slates' that are about the thickness of current eInk devices, are almost all display, in a variety of sizes, and (of course) are color, and display a host of things from text to video and programs. They're ubiquitous on those shows: everyone has 2 or 3 of them, it seems, and they're touch activated.
Can we do those today? Of course not. Are we close? We're getting there. Do you still want to grasp your eInk device until your cold rotting flesh falls off of your fingers? Of course you do! But for me, it's just a stop gap device, because I don't have my nose stuck entirely in a book, I have one eye watching where I'm going, and I'm an eternal optimist (as opposed to an immortal optometrist).