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oh come on. who is going to run office on any tablet. at best you're going to do some light note-taking, you are not going to be writing up a dissertation. yes, the lack of a cam is a major ding, but we all know it'll be out in the iPad 2.0 available next year and sell a few million more devices as people upgrade.
tablet computers have been out for years right? where are they now? windows on tablets is mostly a joke, have you actually used it? i have. my tablet pc collects dust. my newton (100, 110, 2000 and 2100) got far more use (and worked far smoother) than windows does. apple's greatest strength (and to some, greatest weakness) is that it is a close environment, but guess what, that's what makes the user experience so smooth. because you don't have thousands of developers re-inventing the wheel because your system is wide open and they didn't like the OS supplied widget for the keyboard. call up firefox on a tablet PC today. yes. it runs. tap to bring up a virtual keyboard to type in a url. ok. that's working. oh. but i want to do this shortcut and it needs 3 keys pressed and for some reason firefox isn't recognizing the sequence from the virtual keyboard because it's a 3rd party app. damn. what do i do now? trust me, there are a lot of stupid "gotchas" like this on a windows tablet PC, it's why mine collects dust. windows is no magical tablet OS that will do everything you want. and don't get me started on linux, it's even worse (and notice my avatar, i'm a big linux fan).
maybe this is what the definition of a "tablet computer" should have been 10 years ago instead of the "full fledged PC without a keyboard" we were presented with. that model obviously failed or we'd all be happily scribbling away on our tablet pc's.
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