>> How about if it had a real keyboard at the bottom of the tablet?
Then I would want it to fold in the middle, so it would be easier to carry around. :-)
But seriously, if the keyboard is big enough to be useful, then you would have one big awkward tablet — and the display would be awkward too.
If the keyboard is a little teensy Chiclet-key thing like on the big Kindles, then what the heck, just give me the @#$%^&* virtual keyboard to suffer with.
Just my 2c
By the way, I’m really not trying to be disparaging or argumentative, I’m seriously trying to wrap my brain around what this thing would be good for.
I was in the Porsche dealership this morning and the salesman let me use his Blackberry to make a phone call. I simply could not believe the size of the buttons ... they were smaller than a pea. More like lentil sized.
I don’t know how people use them.
Been following the thread and I agree with you. Apple comes up with stuff that surprises me all the time. The touch screen on the iPhone is pretty incredible, even though we take it for granted now, it was amazing a couple of years ago. What’s being discussed here, though, doesn’t seem to have any advantages over a laptop or netbook. A Mac Air with 3G added to the Wifi would do the job and you’d have the whole web.
The other advantage of a laptop or netbook over what’s being discussed here is that they fold into a self protecting shell, whereas a tablet with a keyboard at the bottom or a virtual keyboard would still need something to protect the screen. I keep thinking of dual screens that fold together so you could hold it like a book and read it. Something waterproof would be nice, also.