I keep seeing various iTablets pop up, but no one takes the time to explain why such a device would be such a good idea. You obviously can't slip it into your pocket like an iPhone or iPod Touch. Most tablets have done very badly in the market.
You know, it helps you keep at the very fruit edge, it's cool and sexy and unique. And you've gotta be cool, sexy and unique, right? Otherwise your life doesn't have any point.
They are popular i the business world. They offer a convenience factor that normal laptops or PDA's don't. Using my own office as an example, we have a staff of consultants that travel to various locations and conduct surveys. They are walking around all day, and the tablets that they all got (lucky bastards) will be very useful to them once they can wrap their old timey ways around the tech.
A very useful feature of tablets is for digital artists that want more tangible control over their media. This gives them a way to draw onscreen as opposed to a mouse, trackpad or external tablet. This method is more intuitive and natural. Photo retouchers also can benefit tremendously from this. The pricetag, however is just too high unfortunately. Pick up a Cintiq 12WX for $999 and you get a tablet you can attach to any computer.
Uses for such a device are pretty minimal. Applications range from the obvious, such as enabling artists to draw on the move, to the less obvious, such as a sort of replacement clipboard for doctors doing the rounds at a hospital. In this respect I think this product works - it's a niche product for a niche market that Apple really does not need to invest time in. That Axiotron is investing in another model of the ModBook rather suggests that they did well enough from the original to justify having another go. In this respect I wish them the best of luck but I can safely say that this is not a product that I would be interested in buying.
Uses are minimal? Tell that to any TabletPC user. Putting pen on screen like you put a pen on paper is a much more natural act than using a mouse. Using a tablet format enhances the whole computing experience for most pieces of software, especially the everyday use of the operating system and file management.
They can be very useful for students too. I used my tablet for all of my notes in med school- using OneNote and electronic lecture slides I now have an organized, full-color, indexed and searchable (both the slide text and my own handwriting), hyperlink-enabled database that fits on a single SD card if I want it to. My classmates have stacks of black and white copies that measure over 3 feet tall (seriously). Sure a regular notebook works well too and can use OneNote, but hand-drawn arrows, symbols, diagrams, etc. are much more useful than straight text.
Apple could better build the market for students if they tried. Microsoft could too if they publicized OneNote more.
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I keep seeing various iTablets pop up, but no one takes the time to explain why such a device would be such a good idea. You obviously can't slip it into your pocket like an iPhone or iPod Touch. Most tablets have done very badly in the market.
You know, it helps you keep at the very fruit edge, it's cool and sexy and unique. And you've gotta be cool, sexy and unique, right? Otherwise your life doesn't have any point.
They are popular i the business world. They offer a convenience factor that normal laptops or PDA's don't. Using my own office as an example, we have a staff of consultants that travel to various locations and conduct surveys. They are walking around all day, and the tablets that they all got (lucky bastards) will be very useful to them once they can wrap their old timey ways around the tech.
A very useful feature of tablets is for digital artists that want more tangible control over their media. This gives them a way to draw onscreen as opposed to a mouse, trackpad or external tablet. This method is more intuitive and natural.
Photo retouchers also can benefit tremendously from this.
The pricetag, however is just too high unfortunately. Pick up a Cintiq 12WX for $999 and you get a tablet you can attach to any computer.
Uses for such a device are pretty minimal. Applications range from the obvious, such as enabling artists to draw on the move, to the less obvious, such as a sort of replacement clipboard for doctors doing the rounds at a hospital. In this respect I think this product works - it's a niche product for a niche market that Apple really does not need to invest time in. That Axiotron is investing in another model of the ModBook rather suggests that they did well enough from the original to justify having another go. In this respect I wish them the best of luck but I can safely say that this is not a product that I would be interested in buying.
Uses are minimal? Tell that to any TabletPC user. Putting pen on screen like you put a pen on paper is a much more natural act than using a mouse. Using a tablet format enhances the whole computing experience for most pieces of software, especially the everyday use of the operating system and file management.
They can be very useful for students too. I used my tablet for all of my notes in med school- using OneNote and electronic lecture slides I now have an organized, full-color, indexed and searchable (both the slide text and my own handwriting), hyperlink-enabled database that fits on a single SD card if I want it to. My classmates have stacks of black and white copies that measure over 3 feet tall (seriously). Sure a regular notebook works well too and can use OneNote, but hand-drawn arrows, symbols, diagrams, etc. are much more useful than straight text.
Apple could better build the market for students if they tried. Microsoft could too if they publicized OneNote more.