Sick new Tablet PC coming to market

[mrstickball]

Rath said:

mrstickball said:

Rath said:

mrstickball said:

NotStan said:

I don't get the need for these, I really don't. You could just get a small netbook for the same price, but I guess it's just me that I don't see the appeal of tablets :/. Also, I came in here expecting sick, where is it?

Netbook is still going to be a lot heavier than a tablet. I never saw the appeal of netbooks in the first place.

Plus I would rather leverage an app store like Android/iTunes than get whatever piecemeal offerings there are for netbooks.

Peacemeal offerings for netbooks? They can run windows for goodness sakes, the operating system with the largest software base of any operating system.

Are they going to run major Windows applications well, though?

To me, I'd rather have a smaller tablet app stores, or just get a laptop which can run everything.

Well netbooks aren't meant for gaming and they will run most other applications well enough. The point of a netbook is a highly portable laptop to do things like taking notes at lectures, doing work on a plane and things like that. Things that tablets are usually poor at due to their lack of a keyboard.

This tablet has a keyboard

I understand the reasoning behind a netbook, but I'd just rather go all-in and get a tablet which is even more portable, and has a better form factor. When I was at GDC this year, the netbook guys were the ones that looked the most uncomfortable, as they had to hunker over their books for note-taking.

The coolest guys had the tablet/keyboard setup in a foldable notebook case. Coolest thing I've ever seen.