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Lenovo has the Thinkpad Helix. But why not just have two devices? When you detach the keyboard you practically do have two devices, but one of them is useless.
by nlawalker 12y ago
Lenovo has the Thinkpad Helix.
But why not just have two devices? When you detach the keyboard you practically do have two devices, but one of them is useless. This is my guess as to why this hasn't really taken off - because the keyboard doesn't fold itself into another dimension when you don't want to use it.
- freehunter 12y ago>But why not just have two devices? I would ask: but why have two devices? Why have a laptop and a tablet with separate storage and settings, when you can have a laptop and a tablet with the same storage and the same settings, just a different interface depending on the use case? They keyboard doesn't fold into another dimension, but it does detach. On things like the Yoga, the keyboard doesn't fold into another dimension, it folds against the screen, making the tablet much thicker and heavier than it needs to be. At least with the Transformer T100 the keyboard can just go away.
- hollerith 12y ago>But why not just have two devices? There's some convenience to not having to sync data between devices, which is why a lot of people ditched their desktops when 10 or 15 years ago it started to become affordable to get desktop-like power in a laptop form factor.