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Originally Posted by MV64
What is the point of these tablets now? Seems sort of pointless if you ask me, sort of like netbooks. I guess it's neat to have some sort of intermediate size product, but I don't see why that creates such a hype. It just seems to be an advanced tablet PC, nothing earth-shatteringly new, just advanced. Yet the hype...
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The hype is that it's an Apple product. Hype is their specialty. I'm not saying it won't be a cool gadget, I'm sure it will be. What has irritated me all along is people saying, "There's going to be a tablet" , like it was ordained from on high, when all that really has been out there is rumor, fantasy, and wishful thinking.
The CEO from McGraw-Hill seems to be a more reliable source than any I've ever heard of; so ok, there's a tablet. (Unless that was a huge practical joke, but CEO's of companies that big don't normally *have* a sense of humor). That doesn't nullify my previous irritation.
Yeah, I want a cool tablet device. I currently have a netbook, and I'm crazy about the little thing. I'm still interested in something with a tablet form factor though. Problem is, I want it to run Windows. And I don't want to have to sell a kidney to get it, either.