[Still Thinking]

Oh, yeah. By the time I add a real keyboard, etc., to the thing, I have......Oh, yeah, a laptop, only more awkward, and less powerful and convenient. Sounds like a plan.

[Still Thinking]

Should have known this guy was a dillweed poser when his link to “beautiful laptops” is about a Mac! Macs do have some things to recommend them, but beauty isn’t it.

[Mountain Bike Vomit Carnage]

I am posting from a toshiba thrive tablet. It has full size ports. I hook it up to my tv and watch youtube. I did not type this message, I dictated it on my tablet.

Life is good.

[Mountain Bike Vomit Carnage]

I am posting from a toshiba thrive tablet. It has full size ports. I hook it up to my tv and watch youtube. I did not type this message, I dictated it on my tablet.

Life is good.

[Professional Engineer]

Bfl

[Swordmaker]

Will Smartphones and Tablets replace the laptop? —PING!

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Don't attack people!
Don't respond to the Anti-Apple Thread Trolls!
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[djf]

Yeah yeah yeah we’ve heard it all before the wonderful “CLOUD”....

Laptops are dead...
Desktops are dead...
The mainframe is dead....

How long before we can write “Ignorant delusional writers with no sense of history ARE DEAD!!”???...

;-)

[Woodman]

What they are missing here is that Laptops replaced desktops because their capacity rose and price dropped until they were a viable desktop replacement. People like the mobility of a laptop, but they are most often mobile in the home from table to couch.

Although tablets with enough power to replace a laptop may begin to push out the remaining laptop market, I don't think we are there yet. I think what we will see instead is a reworking of the laptop itself to make it a better home device. Less obsolete or outdated interfaces (VGA, S-Video, composite video, telephone modem, etc.), more efficient storage (SSHD), better multimedia network control capability, and touch/tablet features.

Tablets may become more laptopish, but notebooks will become more tablet like as well.