4 ms·
As phone screens get larger and laptops get slimmer and lighter, tablets become more and more useless
by meri_dian 9y ago
As phone screens get larger and laptops get slimmer and lighter, tablets become more and more useless
- rublev 9y agoI have two tablets. No idea why. Although I do run my compiler on my iPad as an external monitor so I guess it's an extremely expensive, super tiny external monitor.
- Frenchgeek 9y agoMe too, the first one had the digitizer and the SD port break and the second simply borked out of the blue... So I bought a cheaper and crappy smartphone to use as a GPS instead... Too bad I don't know enough electronics to reuse their screens : I could make a neat raspberry pi laptop out of them.
- vannevar 9y agoI think if they just factored in the sales of "phone tablets" like the iPhone Plus, this decline would disappear.
- zyxzkz 9y agoThe laptop is like the perfect tablet... compact, more powerful, comes with its own built-in keyboard AND screen stand. What more could you want?
- post_break 9y agoA battery that is measured in weeks.
- AnimalMuppet 9y agoA full-sized keyboard. My hands are a bit too big to comfortably use a laptop keyboard. (I realize that, if the lack of a full-sized keyboard is the problem, a tablet is not the answer...)
- bostand 9y agoHave you tried 13" ThinkPad recently?
- TimJYoung 9y agoI agree. I've purchased two Dell XPS 2-in-1's (one was an i3 and the other an i5) in the past few years, and I would never go back to using a plain tablet device. The amount of additional functionality that you can use out of the box is staggering. I can do everything from running desktop/server software demos for customers to folding them and using them as a tablet when relaxing and browsing Hacker News.