Is The Tablet P.C Replacing The Laptop?

I kind of hate tiny little screens myself.

It will likely be a few years before the average tablet can replace the laptop, and I like normal keyboards better than the regular tablets. What I like are the hybrids. Laptops that can look and act like tablets.

Steve

Personally, for anything other than checking e-mail or time-killing web-browsing, I prefer an good-old-fashioned, not-portable-at-all PC...complete with a great big screen and an equally big keyboard. I prefer using a mouse too; touch-pads just make my fingers and wrist sore after half an hour.

I must be getting old.

I have a 10 inch laptop and I need it for typing. Yes having a tablet that comes with attachable keyword will help get rid of laptops.

I think it must pass a few years until the tablet the tablets pc will replace some of the laptops market share, but I think that laptops will also have a big market share. Tables have a small size,and have not so good performance, so they are not competitive compared laptops.

If it's just a touchscreen, perhaps that's true, but you can hook an external keyboard to it and type on it just like on a laptop.

I have an older 2nd generation Tablet PC and I love using it for writing. Using the built in Wacom digitizer and pen stylus, I can write directly on the screen & the handwriting recognition capability of Windows 7 can automatically convert my handwriting to text.

Although handwriting is not as fast as typing, it does feel more natural to me. I feel as if my writing and my ideas have a different quality when written by hand. I tend to express myself differently and think of ideas differently when I write using a stylus rather than a keyboard.

Everyone is using those newfangled iPad tablets. I'd get one if they had a good handwriting recognition system.

i hate them myself, they are a nightmare to fix (unlike laptops), and i cant see battlefield 3 running on any tablet anytime soon??

they are practical for some things such as hospitals but if im honest they are just gizmos.

Ken, It might yet. I have a Zagg keyboard (from Logitech) for my iPad, and it's almost like using a regular keyboard. Very close. Combine that with the fact that the whole thing is smaller than a normal spiral notebook, and you've got a very nice machine for working away from the office. Or in it.

A little more security in the holder, a solid-state drive, and this thing would be almost as useful as a good netbook. A bit pricier, but not beyond reason for a productive tool.

The big thing is that it's an intuitive and easy to use tool. My Dad was never really interested in computers. I looked up the baseball scores last time they were here to visit, and he was fascinated by the thing. Spent a half hour just looking things up on Google. Got into a trivia debate with my brother and asked me to hand him "the pad." Fired up the browser and found the answer (he was right, as usual) himself.

It's the convenience, I think. You can take it anywhere, and it's not threatening enough to invoke the technophobia so many people suffer from. It's a handy tool, rather than a boat anchor. And it's social, in that you can use it in a group, rather than having to go off to a desk somewhere.

I think they'll advance to the point where you can replace desktops and laptops with them for most people's usage. And a lot of people will.

Oh... Don't forget that Granny can chat face to face with her grandkids with it with very little learning curve...


Paul