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Originally Posted by kjk
See, I disagree. It is an overpowered iPhone/iPod Touch. If they wanted to do a "PC Tablet", they would have made it run MacOSX, and run Mac software. They obviously have other ideas about what their competition is.
You may prefer to buy a full OS Tablet, which is totally fine-I haven't seen the market for those ever succeed, but, hey, it could still happen. It is obvious Apple doesn't see a full OS Tablet as being the way to go either-even though you want to compare the iPad to one.
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Yeah the problems with Tablet PCs in my view are the following.
Tablets aren't good at working like PCs, as those you really need a keyboard and mouse for to do PC tasks like text entry, spread sheets, analysis programs etc. etc..
On the other hand, PCs aren't very good at being tablets. Add the keyboard like some have and you just end up a laptop form factor with a marginally useful touch screen and a device to bulky to really hold and use as a tablet, or to curl up and read something.
Make a smaller tablet running a full PC OS and you get something less intuitive as the OS is a tweaked version of a PC OS based more the keyboard and mouse rather than being built from the grand up for a touch/stylus interface.
Now that doesn't mean we can't have more full OS's build for touch screen tablets etc.--see Android for an example.
But I don't have much interest in seeing a touch version of windows 7 or OSX. Though I'd like to see a more full fledged OS than the iPhone OS that's build from the ground up to be super intuitive for running a device with nothing but the touch screen.