<div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; ">I see tablets as devices to consume media, with a very limited creation capacity due to the lack of a proper keyboard. Even my Eee Pad with the keyboard dock is very weak at creating content, but its a perfect device for SSHing and even Windows RA.<div><br></div><div>Everyone I know who's tried to use a tablet to do real work only has to teleconference, use a CRM, or send emails. I can't think of anyone here who strictly does those things.</div></div>
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<p style="color: #A0A0A8;">On Saturday, February 25, 2012 at 12:43 PM, Collin Pruitt wrote:</p>
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On 2/25/2012 10:50 AM, Ron Frazier (ALE) wrote:
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Hi all,<br>
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Here I am replying to my own email again. Well, I've been
thinking and
thinking about this. There's no doubt that I WANT a tablet,
although
that would be one more computer to maintain and one more to try to
prevent from getting viruses. Android is a huge virus target.
However, my NEED to go to Atlanta Bread Company or Starbucks and
look
at websites, check email, or check financial charts is not that
great,
when I can generally go back home in 10 minutes and get access to
my
computers. When I had that Pandigital tablet for a few days, I
couldn't get it to attach to Atlanta Bread Company's internet at
all.
And, when I've had my laptop there, performance is spotty at
best. I
can always take my laptop somewhere if I really want to. In the
end, I
think I might want to keep or reallocate the $ 200 more than I
want to
have a tablet. I think that I might just get a new slim case for
my
15.6" laptop as well as a separate power supply. That way, if I
want
to go portable, I can just put the computer into standby mode, put
it
in the case and go. Now, if I had a couple of thousand dollars to
burn, I wouldn't flinch about spending $ 200, but that's not the
case.
Regardless, thanks to those who responded. I learned a good bit
about
the HP Touchpad tablet and the Acer Aspire One netbooks during my
research. If I were going to buy something, it would probably be
either one of those or a Kindle Fire or an Acer Iconia tablet.<br>
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Sincerely,<br>
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Ron<br>
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I think you should try to look at it from this perspective: A tablet
is a convenience device. Press the power button, slide your finger
to unlock, then open your app, all of which can be done in under 5
seconds, while a laptop takes much more time to do the same thing
with. That's why I got a tablet of my own, so I can stop lugging my
laptop everywhere with me for simple tasks like reading email and
looking up websites. I don't need a Core 2 Duo with 4GB RAM and a
15.4" screen to check Facebook or read the news. I also don't always
have the time or the space to bring my laptop out. It's
uncomfortable at best to hold a laptop with one arm while trying to
reasonably do something on it.<br>
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Basically, don't ever intend on doing something intense on a tablet
device, because that's not what it was designed or purposed to do.
It's purely a device of convenience and speed.<br>
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---<br>
Collin Pruitt<br>
Ubuntu Member<br>
<a href="http://collinp.com/">http://collinp.com/</a><br>
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