Comments on: The Inevitable Slow-Motion Death of the Tablet PC

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By: roku

roku — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 05:59:35 +0000

What makes me hold off from tablets are their **** performance, in combination to their exuberant pricing. I personally love the concept of a tablet, but really the money I pay gets me a computer I cannot use for anything other than netbook tasks. Its like I’m paying over $1000 extra for a digitizer on the screen.

The premium is too high, performance too low. Can you believe it? 7 years and still not a single tablet with specs that don’t suck. I’m still waiting for tablets with decent graphic processors :(

By: Rugged Portable Computers

Rugged Portable Computers — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 20:47:38 +0000

I think that it is a great idea and i would love to use one that really works well but they havent yet and so its pretty lame.

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By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 11:05:13 +0000

Buy Electronics wrote: “The tablet PC situation is very similar to when Sony attempted to come out that alternate video playing device when everyone was producing VCRs.”

That is not even remotely analogous. The pen interface enables you to do _more_ than you can with keyboard alone. It’s not to replace a keyboard in situations when a keyboard is more useful.

“Meanwhile, apple on the other hand, will create a smaller more easy to accommodate laptop, and watch their stocks rise.”

That doesn’t even make any connection with your previous sentence.

Being able to type rubbish at speed doesn’t make a very good argument for the death of non-keyboard interfaces.

By: Buy Electronics

Buy Electronics — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 16:50:31 +0000

I will definitely digg this story. The tablet PC situation is very similar to when Sony attempted to come out that alternate video playing device when everyone was producing VCRs. The result was billions of dollars into the incinerator. Meanwhile, apple on the other hand, will create a smaller more easy to accommodate laptop, and watch their stocks rise. Me personally, I need a keyboard.

By: Philippe

Philippe — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 15:11:20 +0000

The problem with tablet Pc’s are the sluggish video performance and the small screens.

I’m in Architecture, and I’d love to be able to draw on the screen in photoshop, illustrator, or other apps (for CAD the mouse is fast, but sometimes it would feel pretty good to be able to manipulate things straight on the screen, for exploration, even if the progs aren’t really made for that, for now).
I don’t really see the usefulness of handwriting though, freehand drawing is much more interesting.

As far as I know there are no tablet PC’s to date with a good Graphic card (that can handle heavy 3d progs), and a 14-15 inch screen in high resolution (1440*900 is a minimum) ! Why do practicly all tablet pcs have integrated graphic cards ??

By: Henri

Henri — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 07:08:06 +0000

The main problem with Tablet PC is MARKETING. The marketing always focussed on handwriting, notetaking etc. This limited the perceived usability to some so called “vertical markets” and thus limited the volumes sold. What is more, it relegated the Tablet PC to distribution channels inaccessable to the general market.

The real usability of the (convertable) Tablet PC for me is to be found in applications, which use the slate properties of the Tablet PC. Web browsing, E-book and E-periodical reading, watching movies and TV etc. I do use the notetaking capabilities, but it is not my main application.

I personally think the (convertable) Tablet PC has a long life ahead. Simply because the applications of the catagory described above are growing in importance and more an more mainstream users will see the advantages of the “slate mode”.

The simple fact, that most main PC manufaturers sell Tablet PC’s and regularly launch new models of those proves my point. The one thing they should do however is to reposition the product and bypass parts of the traditional distribution channel.