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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 We'll leave that old, outdated market of thin and light tablets to Apple.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: antiRepublicrat

I’d anticipate an android with an identical size and weight as the ipad, costing less, and doing a little more, a lighter thinner android doing the same as the ipad, and a heavier, thicker android that completely rules performance wise. I think the android will be strong in a 3 arbitrary categories, but the one that I’m personally looking most closely at is the
super performance version - the portable desktop replacement with the touch screen which might be twice as thick as the ipad, but is a real computer. And that would be a great tablet. If its got a 7 inch screen and is twice as thick as the ipad, it’s going to be more portable than the ipad. Thick is ok. Can I put it in a big jacket pocket? Most of the pockets in my jackets, and all of my clothes really, can fit a 1 inch thick device in them if they can fit a 1/2 inch device. The problem with pockets is when you have device with a 10 inch screen. You can keep making that device thinner and thinner and you still aren’t going to fit that thing in your pocket. I just don’t get the obsession with thinness. It doesn’t offer any additional functionality that I can see.


147 posted on 01/24/2011 2:33:34 PM PST by truthfreedom
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