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A laptop with a wired detachable touch screen
- twiceaday 14y agoI think it's been clear for a while that hardware is not the issue here. The issue is the operating system. What OS will this run?
- breiner 14y agoWin8, if M$ can pull it off... or maybe an Intel version of android with an i7 CPU, 16 gigs of ram and a 500gb hard drive :-)
- drcode 14y agoI like this in principle. You are right that the "working part" of a tablet could be a bit lighter with this approach. However, one of the great benefits of tablets is how easy they are to start working on: with my iPad, if it's in my briefcase and I have to add a calendar item, I can pick it up, start it, add a calendar item, and put it back in mere seconds. Having it attached to a keyboard and having to mess with the wire would slow this process down a bit, I would think. Also, I can't pick up the whole package and run to a meeting quite as easily.
- breiner 14y agoI agree that it will be less mobile than a conventional tablet, but some people will be glad to lose a bit of mobility for desktop horse power and price
- jack-r-abbit 14y agoI don't like the wired approach. It reminds me of our first VCR as a kid that had a wired remote. lol I'm sure others are doing it too but I think that Asus has it right with the Transformer line. You have a tablet that is self contained. But you can easily attach the keyboard which then turns it into a laptop. The keyboard has some additional I/O and another battery. I wonder if it would be possible to take that one step further and have additional cpu/gpu power in the keyboard so that as a laptop it is even more powerful.
- breiner 14y ago>"take that one step further and have additional cpu/gpu power in the keyboard" that's an even better idea, but OS wise will probably cause problems. The original idea is simple enough to implement 5 years ago, I can actually take my old x61t and probably hack it myself...