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A quad-core A5 might have the horsepower to function as both a Mac and an iPad. Think iPad, but with some ports and an SSD in the 'base', and battery and scree
by watmough 15y ago
A quad-core A5 might have the horsepower to function as both a Mac and an iPad.
Think iPad, but with some ports and an SSD in the 'base', and battery and screen and smarts in the touchscreen part.
I wonder how much compromise would be involved in such a device. It seems like it might be much less, now that we have two devices, MBA and iPad that seem to be converging together.
- pilsetnieks 15y agoWhat if it's an MBA with all of the guts in the display part instead of the keyboard? Detach the keyboard et voilà, an iPad.
- jodrellblank 15y agoAn iPad ... but thicker, heavier, with a fan and a docking port/hinge connecter on one edge. And an MBA with the USB/audio ports on the screen which is screen-heavy and keeps falling over backwards.
- rhplus 15y agoI'd love to see a detactable touchscreen product where tablet part is a standalone device, but the keyboard part contains additional battery and hard-drive and maybe even additional memory, GPU and CPU. That way the low powered tablet screen could be taken off when I want to only read or watch video, but the full power of the device is available when it's docked, with tablet or desktop interface available for each mode. (Yeah, I get that plug-and-play chips & memory are unlikely to happen, so perhaps the keyboard part would contain a separate host OS and they'd communicate over a more hot-swappable interface...)
- tikhonj 15y agoIt sounds like the Asus Transformer[1] is most of what you want (and also a nice tablet). [1]: http://eee.asus.com/en/eeepad/transformer/specification/ http://eee.asus.com/en/eeepad/transformer/specification/