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dmaul1114:
I am sensing there are a lot of us out here. Our wants/needs/expectations seem pretty much the same. I too only use laptops, in fact I have not even bothered to build a desktop PC or server in, geeze, over a decade now. I just find ways to use my old laptops when upgrade time comes along. Though my current HP NW9440 still has all the clock-cycles I need so I am not sure when I will "need" a new one. in fact with both my standard and extended life batteries installed I am still getting 4-6hrs use...though when streaming video it drops closer to 4hrs when once it was 12-16hrs. Nothing $500 for new batteries would not solve though...sigh...it's always the price of new batteries that makes me want to get a new laptop instead.
Even still, it's exactly the research side I would love a color slate device for..and it might as well let me handle email or whatever as well. If I could run Lightroom and Photoshop as well, it would be perfect. I would use it for only things that need modest CPU/GPU power...
What I am sensing is these color slates and larger format readers will magnify the problem in the publishing industry. Very few of the references I need and use can be had as ebooks. I have emailed the publishers multiple times every year for a while now and never had a positive response or one indicating even the slightest bit of consideration was being given to the idea of ebook editions. Heck, I would be FINE with an ADE PDF with DRM just to have the books all on a small device...and I am not a fan of PDF at all, but for these I would never have a problem. And one issue I would have in scanning my existing library is it's HUGE and many of the books are more than a few hundred bucks each so no way I am having them taken apart for scanning more efficiently because not a lot of copies are out in the world to being with.
OK...after all that...DOWN WITH LARGER FORMAT READERS!! They will make me write all my checks! hahahaha....
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