Anyone here see someone use Windows 8? On a tablet? I have, and it's simply amazing. While I'm not a fan of the UI of the Window's 8 tablet mode, it's just amazing seeing someone use a desktop and look through spreadsheets, and then seemlessly popout and be able to access tablet apps.

With ultra books becoming thinner and thinner, and with the speed technology is improving at, I just can't see what's the point of having a tablet when you can essentially have a tablet and a laptop at the same time with Windows 8.

Going to post some videos soon.

Windows 8 demonstration:

Ultrabook tablet concepts:

isn't this just a type of "tablet"?

nope.

the real reason? Apple make the iPad. /microsoft can try do all they won't but the mass market won't care.

Interesting, but just image the rage involved when your computer doesn't act responsively...kind of like when you keep seeing them swiping and nothing happening. At home that might result in punching. Hopefully things all work out.

Also, they must be getting paid by how many times they say App. App must be the new word....or the old word that Microsoft is just starting to use in such excess that it becomes sickening to hear it.

1) Why would you want to spend hundreds of dollars on a tablet and laptop, when you can get both functions in one?

2) Do you know useful having the functionality of a tablet and laptop combined can be? Say for example you're a student in college. I personally hate writing notes by typing, so I can just notes down on PowerPoint or something using a stylus. Then the professor wants to show us something in Excel (I'm imagining this is a finance class), so then I just pop out the keyboard.

There's so many scenarios. I could be on a bus or something, where I could be playing games on the tablet, and then once I find a place to sit I could set up a mouse and play a shooter on the laptop.

In work, this can be really useful. The tablet mode will allow you to be really mobile, jotting notes, talking with customers, and then when you need to write a longer email or analyze data, you can quickly use a laptop on the same device.

IMHO this has huge potential for Microsoft, Apple, and Google.

1) Microsoft: This gives the company a huge chance to actually let Windows 8 become a huge player in the mobile OS scene.

2) Apple: This will pressure Apple to offer something similar with its iOS.

3) Google: This could give a chance for Google to introduce its own OS for laptops/desktops.

Until Apple does it, it's a no go

Yes, because it has the horsepower of a laptop PC (which is pretty powerful right now) , and has the portability of a tablet.

I would buy one of those Ultrabooks, I don't think I would buy a tablet.

It has the unfriendliness of a Microsoft OS. That's the point.

when did i say it wasnt useful? 

people dont care about combining the two.. Apple make the iPad. so the ipad wins over anything anyone else comes up with. 

unless apple combines the two (they wont) it wont take off. Like the fact the tablet market was beyond dead. then apple released a tablet and now its rediculously massive.

i never said the untrabook was usless... im guessing you didnt mean to quote me