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To: truthfreedom
I think these tablets could handle that, and could handle anything else. If a faster processor is needed, use that processor. More ram needed, use more ram. Better quality audio i/o would be nice. more connectors, specialty connectors. Tablets don’t have to be thin and light. If battery life is a problem, just put in a bigger battery.

Add more connectors, and a bigger mechanical hard drive. And then you could attach a mechanical keyboard, on a hinge. Not a desktop, but something you could use on .. your lap. Call it a lap computer, something like that.

139 posted on 01/24/2011 5:46:42 AM PST by ReignOfError
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To: ReignOfError; truthfreedom
Add more connectors, and a bigger mechanical hard drive. And then you could attach a mechanical keyboard, on a hinge. Not a desktop, but something you could use on .. your lap. Call it a lap computer, something like that.

You're a genius. I'm in. I think we can corner this new market you've just envisioned. We'll leave that old, outdated market of thin and light tablets to Apple.

143 posted on 01/24/2011 6:33:02 AM PST by antiRepublicrat
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To: ReignOfError

There are laptops already. They’re the ones with the screen on the top, with the keyboard and the computer on the bottom, and they fold apart.

I’m talking about a tablet. A tablet is pretty much a laptop, but instead of 2 necessary sections - a screen and a keyboard - it has a touchscreen. No reason that a tablet has to lack basic functionality because the people at apple want to sell a tablet and a real computer. More connectors for the tablet - check. Bigger mechanical hard drive. Maybe yes, maybe no, doesn’t matter. And, yes, obviously some people find it a little bit easier to type on real keyboards, so you would want to support a usb keyboard and a usb mouse, but it probably wouldn’t be attached to the tablet. But the tablet, with the 10 inch touchscreen, or the 7 inch screen does not have to be thin or light.

What makes a tablet a tablet isn’t the thinness, or the lightness, but the touchscreen. Making a tablet too thin or too light means you have to sacrifice functionality.

But most of the apple people I know really don’t do much of anything with their apples except feel good about themselves for owning them. I’m a windows person, never owned an apple, but the apple owners I know have me teach them how to use their computers when they have a problem.


144 posted on 01/24/2011 2:05:20 PM PST by truthfreedom
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