maybe for people who like to swipe around the web and play angry birds.. anyone creating big documents or software is going to want a keyboard
I hate touchscreens. Love my laptop.
I would have believed it if this was a story about the desktop PC.
Just try to swipe and copy a few words of text on a tablet.
How would I used Photoshop, Illustrator or Premiere on a tablet? Where is the large amount of storage for an hour of video.
The only way those platforms will take off (besides the novelty of it) if it’s integrated into a larger primary computer system ala the pads used in Star Trek.
I use my iPad for everything except Photoshop. I’m a photographer, so I need Photoshop (and Lightroom). I have a wireless keyboard to use with my iPad, so I can type long emails without wanting to scream. I hate typing on a flat surface! I make spreadsheets with my iPad. I shop with my iPad. Like I said, I only need my PC for photo editing and for storing my photos.
Does anyone know how to cut and paste on a Android Galaxy? Just wondering.
I can tell my kids “I can remember a time when computers hadn’t been invented yet”. They’ll be able to tell their kids “I can remember a time when most computers sat on desks. My great grandchildren may never actually see a physical computer.
If you think about it, engineering is really magic in ultra slow motion.
Sorry but this needs editing for truth.
Why Smartphone manufacturers want Laptops are an to become an Endangered Species.
Two words: Proprietary Content
I just bought my wife a nice Toshiba laptop, with Windows 7 installed, from Best Buy...
for $260
With prices like that, laptops are NOT going away anytime soon.
It's just a matter of how comfortable people become to connecting them to keyboards and large monitors.
What really happens is this:
Imagine that someone would say that a farmer should replace his truck with a motorcycle because so many city kids ride motorcycles. He'd be laughed at. Same here. Power users - or really any users who do work on their computers - are using notebooks and desktops. It's not just because of keyboard and a larger screen; you can attach those to the tablet as well. Primarily it's because of two things: performance and software.
Business needs are so closely tied to specific pieces of software that it's hard to even change the OS from Windows to Mac or Linux. Need AutoCAD? Use Windows. Need SolidWorks? Use Windows. Need MS Office (unclouded version)? Use Windows or Mac. Your business requires IE for SharePoint integration? Use Windows. Tablets aren't even in the running here, simply because their software is far more primitive compared to PC versions.
Performance is another issue. Some would say that it's plenty fast for what they are doing. That's fine, it only means that they aren't doing anything important. Try to edit a 100-page MS Word document with illustrations, on a tablet or a smartphone. You'd hurl that smartphone into the wall within minutes.
Smartphones open new markets for software vendors. That is true. People who never played with entry-level software now can do that on their phones. But this new market doesn't affect the established market of business systems and software, even if some people are present in both spaces. You can't do business computing on a smartphone - unless you are a PHB so high up that your computer needs are limited to finding out what the weather is.
I have four notebooks and five desktops (I think) at home. I have no smartphones. I have one tablet (Galaxy Tab) that I got to use for free; I'm reading e-books on it in bed. I'd never pay money for it just to do that. Nothing else on that tablet is of any value to me. My cell phone can only make and receive calls; it has no SMS or Web capabilities, and I like it that way. As you can see, I'm not suffering from lack of computers, I work with them all day long. I don't need another one in my pocket.
I will not change from my laptop like my parents won’t change from their desktop. They have trouble seeing the laptop screen and I have trouble trying to read a dinky screen. We also have no problem not being “ON” and connected to the world at every moment of our lives. My phone is just a phone nothing else, it’s all I need. Same with music disks, no mp3 for me, I have no need to carry my entire music collection everywhere I go.
I’m nearly 18,000 words into writing a book. I wouldn’t want to do this on a pad or a phone, and I often set up to write a bit in restaurants or public places. The laptop is the vehicle of choice.
I’ve been using my custom desktop for three years and wouldn’t give it up, as I can pop up to four hard drives in and out of the front, easily changing operating systems and data drives. For the last year I’ve thought about getting a laptop, specifically an Apple. As for a tablet, I didn’t think they were other than a fad.
However, after getting my wife an iPad I’ve found it to be very handy and use it all around the house, in the shop and outside. Have my email, a camera, Skype, notes, books and FR at hand.
Now have a Kindle Fire also, and got one of those for each of the three year old grandkids for Christmas as well.
It depends on the application.
A smartphone is fine for checking the web and basic functions. I hate trying to access my bank account or post long comments because the “keyboard” is terrible. I do check the occasional e-mail and my kids will watch Netflix on it at a restaurant while waiting for food.
I use a desktop for job hunting, searching the web, playing DVDs or streaming movies for the kids, gaming, long FR posts, e-mails and other writing.
I use a Wii for other gaming.
I use a Blu-Ray player for playing Blu-rays, DVD’s or streaming movies from Netflix.
My wife is getting a laptop for when she returns to college to finish her degree.
It is not that things are going away, now you have multiple devices to choose from, depending on your specific needs.
People really, really love the simplicity of those screen-swiping, finger-flicking devices known as tablets and smartphones.
First question where do you plug the printer into?.
They have been saying the same crap about Desktops for the last 10 years.
I think desktops, Laptops and Tablets will all be around for years to come, their market shares will shift around but they will all continue to be useful.
Mainframes rule!
NO keyboard puter is the dumbest ideer I ever hoid! It’s like the no disk puters. You end up carrying it and an external disk, and an external keyboard and a power supply, which all together take up more space and weight than a laptop. But hey, you got yourself a lightweight pocket size tablet. It’s all marketing, folks!