I see the tablets (and also the netbooks) as a second coming of the Newton. I used my Newton (in tablet mode) mostly for content creation. I could write as fast as I could and it would [usually] copy my handwriting perfectly. Biggest thing was it didn't require me to sit at a desk -- I could write while standing, walking, or riding in the car, without having to prop anything up. When I wanted to do text editing or spreadsheet stuff, or use it as a terminal, I could plug in the keyboard and it became one of the smallest laptops of the time, pretty much comparable to today's netbooks.
Why have a separate keyboard? I like to have the option of leaving the weight behind if I don't plan on using it, and I can write much more easily in a standing position with a pad than with a keyboard. If I do decide to get an iPad or a netbook, I will pay substantially less than I paid for my last Newton (the last one I purchased, not the later ones I was given). --Don Ellis On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 11:32 PM, Robert & Janet Bennett < [email protected]> wrote: > > This guy doesn't seem to think that the tablet "virtual" keyboards are very > good. I have never owned a tablet myself, but > I have used a netbook a time or two. I find the 8.9" keyboard to be too > small (not unusable but too small) and find the > keyboard on the 10.1" netbook to be just right. > > -- Robert > > 'Why Not Just Buy a Netbook?' > > Tablets are not in Slashdot blogger hairyfeet's future, either. > > "With the exception of a few simple tasks such as taking inventory, tablets > are more for content consumption than anything else, and I already have > plenty of ways to do that!" hairyfeet told Linux Girl. > > "Why anyone would want to spend the prices they want for a halfway decent > tablet -- when one could get a nice AMD <http://www.amd.com> (NYSE: AMD) > Neo netbook for the same price which will let you consume PLUS game PLUS > create PLUS take notes and do another dozen jobs -- is beyond me," hairyfeet > opined. "I have yet to see a virtual keyboard that wasn't just horrible, and > if I am gonna have to buy a keyboard for the thing anyway, why not just buy > a netbook?" > > http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/71660.html?wlc=1295414806 > > > > > Scott Granneman wrote: > > http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/01/acer-tablets-netbooks/ > > To summarize: the future is tablets, not netbooks. > > Scott > -- > > -- Central West End Linux Users Group (via Google Groups) Main page: http://www.cwelug.org To post: [email protected] To subscribe: [email protected] To unsubscribe: [email protected] More options: http://groups.google.com/group/cwelug
