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…or in other words, how to turn your tablet into a quite lackluster Unix laptop. Once you add up external storage and a bluetooth accessories (incl. crappy keyb
by mhd 14y ago
…or in other words, how to turn your tablet into a quite lackluster Unix laptop. Once you add up external storage and a bluetooth accessories (incl. crappy keyboards), are you really that far removed from an X-series Thinkpad (or one of those new-fangled ultrabooks), albeit with worse performance?
- cageface 14y agoI just cannot see the point of trying to turn a tablet into a laptop. If the shift to mobile taught us anything wasn't it that one device can not adapt equally well to all tasks?
- mhd 14y agoI really hope that this isn't a true "shift", but disregarding that, if you look just a few years back you had a PDA and a phone, now that's done by one "smart"phone (that, plus GPS and camera). I'd say that most tablets certainly would be capable of doing that when it comes to raw power (hey, they're faster than SGI Indys), but the ergonomics are quite odd, which is a problem that Moore's law doesn't solve automatically. And when you're carrying your Android tablet in addition to an iPad… But hey, there's been online IDEs, a lot of "distraction free" writing environments etc. for tablets, so the line to draw between tablet and laptop usage is obviously a very individual choice. And, well, as an emergency Unix shell connector even I can see the point, and I'm definitely in the "tablets are for consuming" camp.
- ams6110 14y agoOne point would be so that you don't have to carry a laptop. If you need some things (e.g. terminal emulators) occasionally but not often enough to really justify lugging a full laptop around, then having that on your tablet could be valuable (even if not "as good" as the laptop experience).