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The tablet w/ keyboard is interesting to me. The touchscreen laptop form factor was pretty bad; bulky and really unlikely to be leveraged as a tablet or touchsc

by wand3r 9y ago

The tablet w/ keyboard is interesting to me. The touchscreen laptop form factor was pretty bad; bulky and really unlikely to be leveraged as a tablet or touchscreen. The newer surface pros seem to actually nail the form factor: small enough to be a tablet, powerful enough to be a laptop. The Mac ecosystem is slower to adapt but I think the air & MacBook will be a single line; either a combo or one will get dropped. The iPad (really most of their products minus iPhone) need a significant upgrade in terms of computing power and batt life. I honestly think the declne in tablets is surface pro style form factor winning over a tablet w/ aftermarket keyboard etc

valuearb 9y ago
Not sure why you think iPads need computing power upgrade, their mobile SOCs consistently benchmark as the fastest available. And iOS is far more moemory efficient than he competition. Now their laptop line on the other hand... And I can't think of convertibles as anything but a niche product or even a fad. Jack of all trades, master of none, wuth bonus fingerprints all over your screen.
- wand3r 9y ago
  To be honest that's news to me I don't use tablets. I think potentially ios makes it seem less palatable to something like a MacBook air and I don't believe they are on par w/ a surface pro-- although you might be right about performance / convertibles but I'm not sure. I see Apple maybe even killing iPad now the plus is released and just blending the air, MacBook, and iPad into 1 device. I agree about the laptops, I had an i7 MacBook pro from 2011 and it was powerful; still competed w/ newer offerings. I sold it for $500 and built a i5 6500 hackintosh it's quirky of course but 33percent more powerful than the laptop and minus the screen it's on par w/ a 1999 iMac and including a Mac pro mouse and Mac keyboard it was about $560. The laptops are not only disappointing; but I just can't even afford them

by wand3r 9y ago

valuearb 9y ago

Not sure why you think iPads need computing power upgrade, their mobile SOCs consistently benchmark as the fastest available. And iOS is far more moemory efficient than he competition. Now their laptop line on the other hand... And I can't think of convertibles as anything but a niche product or even a fad. Jack of all trades, master of none, wuth bonus fingerprints all over your screen.

wand3r 9y ago
To be honest that's news to me I don't use tablets. I think potentially ios makes it seem less palatable to something like a MacBook air and I don't believe they are on par w/ a surface pro-- although you might be right about performance / convertibles but I'm not sure. I see Apple maybe even killing iPad now the plus is released and just blending the air, MacBook, and iPad into 1 device. I agree about the laptops, I had an i7 MacBook pro from 2011 and it was powerful; still competed w/ newer offerings. I sold it for $500 and built a i5 6500 hackintosh it's quirky of course but 33percent more powerful than the laptop and minus the screen it's on par w/ a 1999 iMac and including a Mac pro mouse and Mac keyboard it was about $560. The laptops are not only disappointing; but I just can't even afford them