- Full Windows 7 Home or Ultimate, no Starter sh8. - Intel Atom or Core 2 is good - 2 GB of RAM - Make it thin and the less bezel the better - Make it for under $500 and you've got millions of sales
@fatslug millions of sales that will be returned within a week after consumers discover hardware specs themselves do not produce positive user experiences. Pretty much what happened with the Zune (minus the millions of sales of course.)
But hey, if you wait a month after this thing is released you'll be able to score one of these super cheap on e-bay.
@fatslug well, you know 10+ years ago, your Great Leader, Bill Gates the Third figured he'd go slap Windows 98 on a keyboard-less laptop, throw in stylus support, slap a "tablet" label on the things and call it a day. Nothing much happened thereafter, did it? Tablet sales are suddenly going to skyrocket because they may come with Windows 7? nah...
If Apple does release a tablet it will not commit the same mistakes of the last 10 years, it will be something entirely different. IF.
Tell that to all the doctors, designers, and engineers who have been using Windows tablets for the last decade. Just because your chosen company's target market is spoiled teenagers, and brain dead celebrities, doesn't mean everyone is that vacuous.
And you are comparing Windows 98 to Windows 7? Well, with your brain, you may be thinking, "Well, the number is 14 times smaller, so maybe it's 14 times crappier!" No, that's not really it. And Mac OS X doesn't even have tablet support, so there.
@HighestRanked no, tablet sales are going to increase, because the cost of manufacturing something usable has dropped drastically.
The tablets of 10 years ago suffered from the same problem as UMPCs 4 years ago: not enough bang for buck. With more ubiquitous connectivity and inexpensive components such devices are more feasible.
Frankly, I'm surprised more netbook/notebook makers haven't made convertible versions of their devices. The additional cost is nothing compared to the added functionality.
@jon doctors and engineers with Windows tablets? hahaha yeah sure, whatever you say sir. Is that why tablets today are such a huge chunk of the PC market? It's a microscopic niche market. What major brick and mortar store sells them? no one.
@Alan Strangis the cost of manufacturing tablets has dropped drastically? hahaha. Netbooks are stripped barely-usable laptops. If there was such a demand for tablets they would've materialized instead of netbooks. But now since everyone is talking about an Apple tablet, Windows tablets all of a sudden become relevant again? don't think so.
First you say manufacturing costs have dropped, then you say the added cost is nothing vs gained functionality. So which one is it? Anyway, what do you gain for having a missing keyboard on an Widnows "tablet"?
@HighestRanked "First you say manufacturing costs have dropped, then you say the added cost is nothing vs gained functionality. So which one is it? Anyway, what do you gain for having a missing keyboard on an Widnows "tablet"?"
My two statements aren't anywhere close to mutually exclusive. They're actually complementary to each other, and if you paid attention to what's been happening in the market over the past year+, more and cheaper convertibles ARE coming out.
As for the 'missing keyboard', it was clear that I was talking about convertible tablets, not straight up keyboardless slates. I would never consider a keyboardless device bigger than a smartphone, since it would be useless, even compared to an Asus EEE 701.
@HighestRanked Doctors and the military have been using tablets PCs for years. Why do you think all these medical database style apps keep turning up on the App Store? Maybe a whole bunch of people suddenly all though that £70 medical apps were a good idea? It's just the current tablet software market trying to push into a smaller form factor on the hope it'll take off. Secondly, go google 'military rugged tablet'.
The Cobra Tag may help you win that losing battle, acting as a Bluetooth device that attaches to your key ring and connects to your phone, it gives you the opportunity to find the missing item if it's less than 30 feet away.
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- Full Windows 7 Home or Ultimate, no Starter sh8.
- Intel Atom or Core 2 is good
- 2 GB of RAM
- Make it thin and the less bezel the better
- Make it for under $500 and you've got millions of sales
@fatslug Core i3 would be better than core2
@fatslug millions of sales that will be returned within a week after consumers discover hardware specs themselves do not produce positive user experiences. Pretty much what happened with the Zune (minus the millions of sales of course.)
But hey, if you wait a month after this thing is released you'll be able to score one of these super cheap on e-bay.
@fatslug
Oh, and one more thing...
-Make it not say HP on it
@HighestRanked
Windows 7 has great tablet support in it. Sorry this isnt a iTard device that you were hoping for.
Windows devices sell in the hundreds of millions, Apples computers not so much. That's reality buddy.
@10nisman94
Core i3 would be nice but I'm hoping for a sub $500 price. Core 2 or Atom would suit a device like this perfectly.
@HighestRanked
Hate, hate, hate...
All you Apple fanboys do is hate.
@fatslug well, you know 10+ years ago, your Great Leader, Bill Gates the Third figured he'd go slap Windows 98 on a keyboard-less laptop, throw in stylus support, slap a "tablet" label on the things and call it a day. Nothing much happened thereafter, did it? Tablet sales are suddenly going to skyrocket because they may come with Windows 7? nah...
If Apple does release a tablet it will not commit the same mistakes of the last 10 years, it will be something entirely different. IF.
@HighestRanked
"Nothing much happened thereafter, did it?"
Tell that to all the doctors, designers, and engineers who have been using Windows tablets for the last decade.
Just because your chosen company's target market is spoiled teenagers, and brain dead celebrities, doesn't mean everyone is that vacuous.
@HighestRanked
And you are comparing Windows 98 to Windows 7? Well, with your brain, you may be thinking, "Well, the number is 14 times smaller, so maybe it's 14 times crappier!" No, that's not really it. And Mac OS X doesn't even have tablet support, so there.
@10nisman94
Not in this product. Core i3 is a 35W part you'll mostly see in big(14-16"), cheap(less than $900) desktop replacement notebooks.
This thing calls for a ULV chip, Those are mostly i7 parts.(one's an i5)
@HighestRanked no, tablet sales are going to increase, because the cost of manufacturing something usable has dropped drastically.
The tablets of 10 years ago suffered from the same problem as UMPCs 4 years ago: not enough bang for buck. With more ubiquitous connectivity and inexpensive components such devices are more feasible.
Frankly, I'm surprised more netbook/notebook makers haven't made convertible versions of their devices. The additional cost is nothing compared to the added functionality.
@jon doctors and engineers with Windows tablets? hahaha yeah sure, whatever you say sir. Is that why tablets today are such a huge chunk of the PC market? It's a microscopic niche market. What major brick and mortar store sells them? no one.
@Alan Strangis the cost of manufacturing tablets has dropped drastically? hahaha. Netbooks are stripped barely-usable laptops. If there was such a demand for tablets they would've materialized instead of netbooks. But now since everyone is talking about an Apple tablet, Windows tablets all of a sudden become relevant again? don't think so.
First you say manufacturing costs have dropped, then you say the added cost is nothing vs gained functionality. So which one is it? Anyway, what do you gain for having a missing keyboard on an Widnows "tablet"?
@HighestRanked "First you say manufacturing costs have dropped, then you say the added cost is nothing vs gained functionality. So which one is it? Anyway, what do you gain for having a missing keyboard on an Widnows "tablet"?"
My two statements aren't anywhere close to mutually exclusive. They're actually complementary to each other, and if you paid attention to what's been happening in the market over the past year+, more and cheaper convertibles ARE coming out.
As for the 'missing keyboard', it was clear that I was talking about convertible tablets, not straight up keyboardless slates. I would never consider a keyboardless device bigger than a smartphone, since it would be useless, even compared to an Asus EEE 701.
Next time you reply, try actually READING first.
@HighestRanked
Doctors and the military have been using tablets PCs for years. Why do you think all these medical database style apps keep turning up on the App Store? Maybe a whole bunch of people suddenly all though that £70 medical apps were a good idea? It's just the current tablet software market trying to push into a smaller form factor on the hope it'll take off. Secondly, go google 'military rugged tablet'.