Alan Cox wrote: [...snip...] >> that were once solely the domain of PCs. Tablets are quickly displacing >> laptops in the business world. The main barrier is that they are more > > I don't know where you got that from, but worldwide tablet sales hardly > back that up. > > There is one point that is being missed though, critical to the whole > argument. Try using Fedora 15 / Gnome 3 on a touchscreen - its absolutely > unusable because of things like the window resizing behaviour. > I think the tablet is a valuable tool, but it doesn't exist in the same space as a PC. If the imput limitations are not an issues, and many people are just consumers on content, then a tablet will serve. If portability is an issue, and ease of use without a mouse matters, the tablet is a better choice,. no PC needed. I'm planning to buy the new Eee Transformer, it provides the benefits of both, and the means to use whichever configuration suits. A tablet for walking around, and a real keyboard and better resolution mouse when doing typing tasks. It will not replace a big PC for major word processing, unless it has a lot better keyboard feel and CPU power than I expect, but for a few days on the road it serves just fine. I think the car paradigm works, the specialized units are so much better than the general purpose units that there is a market for all of them, big, little, cheap, expen$ive, sexy, etc.Sports cars and Fiat 500 as well as pickup trucks. -- Bill Davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx> "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
