There’s a product out there, I’ll try to find a link.
http://cgi.ebay.com/7-Touch-Screen-WIFI-UMPC-MID-Pierre-Cardin-S7-XP-EMS-/260524294452?pt=Laptops_Nov05&hash=item3ca8754134
I think this product is overpriced, because it’s pretty old, not state of the art, but it’s basically a xp computer with a touch screen.
I was thinking of getting that maybe a few months ago if I could at around $400 (now, as I said before, I think that the generic android makers will get the job done).
I mean, i’m typing on my laptop right now and it does not seem at all hard to imagine making the screen a touchscreen and putting it where the keyboard is. Make it smaller.
If the performance of a mouse and keyboard really really suck on a touchscreen, then that’s a problem.
How about this - skip the mouse part, or, the tablet acts as the mouse. big lcd screen in front of you, keyboard in front of you, tablet on the right, where a mouse usually goes. Pick up, hold, use the touchscreen when necessary or desired. place down the touchscreen when watching the. if you’re reading a document, when all you really need to do is swipe to turn a page, you don’t really need to be looking at the touchscreen tablet device to operate it.
People like to joke about connectors, but i’d like to see some ir in there. I just became aware of “media players”, which are little boxes that either hold a hard drive or hook up to an external hard drive or a sd card or a micro sd card, or any external usb storage device and send your media files to your tv or your stereo. These devices can send out a 1080p hdmi signal to your tv. They’re operated by remote control. You could have a remote control that operates the tablet, like remotes operate these media centers. up down left right enter. play. so, the ability to receive infared signals from a remote control would be another type of “connector” i’d like to see.
It just looks right now like a tablet would be a really good tv room computer.
Maybe okay for you, but fail in the marketplace. Experience has shown people don't want a desktop UI shoved into a tablet.
People like to joke about connectors, but i’d like to see some ir in there.
We have Bluetooth for that now. It's secure and doesn't require line of sight.
It just looks right now like a tablet would be a really good tv room computer.
There's a Remote Control app for the iOS devices you can use to run a Mac connected to your TV.