You mention voice input. Do you really want everyone around you hearing you dictate a letter or text to someone? Whatever happened to privacy. You are right in that there has to be a better way of inputting besides a kbd, but voice dictation?\\ /\ Alice.( ). Sent from my iPad miniPoint taken.Still, there must be a better kbd than the one designed for the Surface - and the little ones designed for the iMachines. Or, thinking differently, there must be a better input device than a keyboard. Just as we lived for 30 years with the visual-typewriter model of personal computer because of cultural inertia, we're still hobbled with the typewriter model of non-voice input.--david@luda.netNor is my MacBook Pro a 'real' keyboard. If you mean it is not full size, most laptop keyboards are not the same size or quality as regular keyboards.
People attain a high % (60-70%) of their WPM on full sized keyboards so it is much closer than virtual on screen keyboards.
Since all tablets (iPad, Android, Win RT/Surface) support Bluetooth keyboards any tablet can be used with a full sized one but the advantage of Zaggat, Logitech keyboard cases and Surface keyboard covers is their size because they can travel easily/unfold easily with the tablets.
But they are not the same size and quality as larger full-size keyboards but WAY ahead of on screen ones and do provide physical keys to touch.On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 5:44 AM, David Smith <david.smith.14916@gmail.com> wrote:
only problem with that scenario is that it's not a real kbd
- ipdt5If a Tablet can be used with no keyboard (Surface does not need a keyboard it is optional) then it is a Tablet.
If a Win8 Tablet has a keyboard that can be "folded away" or disconnected to use without it, we call it a 'convertible'.
Most people that want a Win8 Tablet want something that can run WinApps i.e. the stuff they have been running for years which is why WinRT is not as good for them. For example a Win8 could be a Tablet but could also run PhotoShop whereas a WinRT can only run WinRT Tablet apps. Or in my case for example running Visual Studio which I make my likelihood coding.
Some people think this could be a big competitive edge to run custom corporate Windows apps, commercial Windows apps, and when sick of those just use it as a Tablet without grabbing a different device.
Others are betting that within a few years all corporate and commercial apps will be Web based not windows based and a huge base of cleaner, lighter new apps will replace all the Big Windows and Mac Apps everyone is addicted/tethered too now.
Another possibility is Tablets just supporting VM and Mouse (iOS VM could then run Win7 inside an iPad/Android) as a stopgap to the former since some apps may take years or never be replaced.
In all those cases many convertibles may arise, Surface is a good example of a very ergonomic approach to provide a mouse/keyboard that can be removed to leave a tablet, and engaged when one needs a 'very close/close enough to laptop' experience.
On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 1:26 AM, Christopher Collins <iphone@analogdigital.com.au> wrote:
But doesn't a tablet that requires a separate keyboard not really a tablet at all?
I'd call it a laptop.
cjc
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