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Originally Posted by JSWolf
What I think would maybe sell would be a laptop with a removable screen that doubles as a tablet.
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Lenovo, I think, showed something like that at CES. It looked quite nifty, though I haven't properly looked at it.
For my mind, my interest in a new Apple Tablet would likely be influenced by the desire that its OS be either the full OS X (even if perhaps slightly "trimmed" for performance?) rather than the iPod Touch's/iPhone's (I want my Firefox, for instance, rather than Safari and purely app-store control. I'm happy with that on my iPhone, but on a tablet I want more freedom). Similar to the idea quoted above, I desire a "dock" for the tablet that allows me to plug in (or bluetooth?) a keyboard and mouse, or some variation thereof, so that I can just use it at a desk similar to a laptop/desktop.
This hypothetical device will replace my small laptop, which almost never leaves the desk, and will function as something I use on the sofa, or in bed, or possibly when travelling/staying overnight somewhere (for pleasure only, as I do not work). I do not need a laptop, I've realised. For most "desktop" work now, I use my iMac upstairs. A more lightweight tablet is likely to see far more use by me than the laptop. I chose the iMac for a few reasons, and one can include, after 20 years in IT, that one was a non-judgemental (against my MS experience) "a change is as good as a holiday" (It's nice, and I've mostly been satisfied with it). If I replace my laptop, inherited from work, my subjective experience is that these Apple products seem to work well together, and some uniformity of OS helps me, and so while a tablet is desirable, the possibility of an Apple tablet adds to that desire.
I am possibly going to be an "early adopter" if the device comes out, even if it doesn't
completely match my desires. I don't have "loyalty" to Apple (by which I mean I don't generally retain that kind of strength of emotional attachment to a corporation
(*)), but simply see my purchases as serving personal satisfaction of functional, aesthetic and emotional desires. If the rumoured product doesn't satisfy anyone else's, or they consider some of those particular desires irrelevant, I'm certainly okay with that...encourage it. I buy products to satisfy me, not to satisfy others.
Who needs the Apple Tablet? I don't know. I certainly don't "need" it any more than I "need" to buy books or movies or music or photography equipment to live. I might
want it though.
Cheers,
Marc
(* Okay, I cried a bit when Porsche lost to VW 
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