Steve Jobs Calls 7-Inch Tablets 'Dead on Arrival', Says 10-Inches Minimum

[EowynCarter]

Apple makes products for an end user who does not want to do the work of integrating all the hardware & software. Not for people who enjoy doing that work themselves. Different strokes for different folks.

You can use Windows, linux, android, without having to do any "work". The only differance is that you can mess up with things, if you wish.

Further, Apple tends to dominated the niches it chooses - or rather, chooses niches where it sees an opportunity to dominate. Even in computers, where that hasn't been the case, I think I see a strategy to create niches to dominate. Consider the latest Macbook Air - is there anything else like it?

Dell adamo.

[astra]

10" is no good for me.
I am tired of my netbook 10.1". It is so small...

If I were to buy a new netbook/smallish laptop it would be Vostro v13
13.3"!!! 10h! battery life and only 1.6kg!

[MikeFromHC]

Originally Posted by Logseman

What I'd like to see are tablets with attachable keyboards. If you need a netbook, you have it, and if you don't, you just resort to the touchscreen.

Notion-ink's Adam allegedly will have three USB ports and can have an attached keyboard.
The bottom of the page has an interesting link explaining some of the design decisions.

It is also supposed to have a list of a bit over $300.00.

[MikeFromHC]

Originally Posted by astra

10" is no good for me.
I am tired of my netbook 10.1". It is so small...

If I were to buy a new netbook/smallish laptop it would be Vostro v13
13.3"!!! 10h! battery life and only 1.6kg!

More is better and I think 12 or 13 is about right for academic or business use IF there are two of them. One for a full page display of my current page and the other for displays of reference material, notes, calculators, etc.

The video of MSFT's much smaller device showed some of what could be done with such a two page format.

Anything larger that 7 inches must support two or more columns automatically for reading. (it makes reading more faster and English more gooder.)

[Harmon]

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[Harmon]

Originally Posted by EowynCarter

You can use Windows, linux, android, without having to do any "work". The only differance is that you can mess up with things, if you wish.


Dell adamo.

I don't think you get my point. Apple is a table radio. A very nice one. Everything else is a component system. If you know what you are doing, or just like messing around, go for the component system. Basic Windows, Linux, android etc. is not as good as Apple. But a well thought out component system - that could be better.

With respect to Dell adomo, I've never heard of it - which is my point.

There are Apple products I don't care about. Apple TV for instance, because all TV is good for, IMHO, is baseball and opera. And Dr. Who.

Basically, Apple is the Yankees. Apple sets the standard.

[EowynCarter]

Basic Windows, Linux, android etc. is not as good as Apple.

My low end android smartphone, out of the box, does more for me than any iPhone would.

I received the phone i just put the sim card inside, start it, and voila. With the iPhone, it would have been install iTunes, activate so apple give you the authorization to use YOUR phone..
The simple fact of "don't need iTunes" make android way better the iOS to me. And that without adding the other thing i can do with android (use my phone as modem, use mp3 as ringtone) out of the box, that the iPhone requires you to mess around for such basic things , as well as putting music or video on your phone. Just so much easier the android way.

As to windows, it seam to work out fine for lots of people.

[R. Reed]

Sounds like a good size to me. It would fit in my purse and I could replace my first gen iPod touch and have an even bigger screen for movies and color comics and stuff.

[JSWolf]

It's not the size that matters. It's what you do with it.

Had to be said.

[Penforhire]

I think Apple made a mistake in the new 11" Air. Battery life needs to be greater than the 13", not less. Larger laptops are more likely to used near power than smaller ones. So they need greater battery life. At least that is how I approach where I use my netbook.

The 11" Air does throw a small wrench into the iPad decision, given its nearly-instant-on with 30-day standby and considerably more horsepower. Still not a tablet though.

[Lady Fitzgerald]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

It's not the size that matters. It's what you do with it.

Had to be said.

Honey, I hate to break it to you but we women have been lying for years; size does matter! And I can tell you what to do with it! (oops, was that my inner dyke channeling my outside voice?)

[darknessangel]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

It's not the size that matters. It's what you do with it.

Had to be said.

That's a lie for the ones with small ones.

Had to be said. =P

[Graham]

Originally Posted by Penforhire

The 11" Air does throw a small wrench into the iPad decision, given its nearly-instant-on with 30-day standby and considerably more horsepower. Still not a tablet though.

And surely at 11" the Air counts as a netbook... which Steve Jobs dismissed as being worthless.

Graham

[kennyc]

Does it have flash?

[petermillard]

Originally Posted by kennyc

Does it have flash?

Doesn't ship with it:-

http://www.engadget.com/2010/10/20/m...ance-no-flash/

The 'netbook/notebook/laptop' line has been blurred a lot - is it screen size, price or specification that's the determining factor??

An 11" Air can be a netbook if you want it to be, I guess, but I'd expect it to soon be the entry level MacBook; that lone, shiny white Macbook at the bottom of the range has it's days numbered, I'd say.

Cheers, Pete