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Hey, if I could plug my iPad into a dock and get full OSX rocking Photoshop and XCode, I'd be all over it. Who needs a Macbook Air?! That's the dream of Windows
by jinushaun 15y ago
Hey, if I could plug my iPad into a dock and get full OSX rocking Photoshop and XCode, I'd be all over it. Who needs a Macbook Air?! That's the dream of Windows 8. iPad for the road, MBP for home.
The real problem with Windows 8 is that it, ironically, doesn't work very well with a mouse. Even if you docked your Win8 tablet and tried to live entirely in the Desktop mode, you can't. You'd keep getting a jarring fullscreen animation bumping you into Metro mode. Reading an email in Outlook on the Desktop? Whoops! You just clicked on a link that opened up Metro IE instead of Desktop IE. Cue fullscreen page transition... Gestures that are simple and intuitive with touch are hidden and awkward with a mouse and keyboard.