Is the netbook going to be replaced by Tablets in 2011?

IMO, it's an apples versus oranges 'comparison'.

FWIW, I have a full size laptop for regular use and a netbook for travel.

For the netbook, a real keyboard is a near must and so is connectivity. I nearly always use one or more of it's USB ports and sometimes I use all three. And I occasionally use the LAN port. And then there's a card reader (two actually, which is great for automatic backup)). And I don't won't to run an OS which is not code compatible with my main laptop, i.e. I want some form of (real) (MS-)Windows.

Very, very unlikely that all of this will be available in a tablet.

So if I would buy a tablet or/and a smart phone, it would be *in addition*, not instead of.

That's my EUR 0.02.

I am doing the same these days Frank. And I wonder how many people have steered off in the same direction.

I found I could get a core i7 notebook with the works, cheaper than most tin boxes with the same features. And the prices are dropping madly on these "catch of the day" type specials that we are seeing here in Australia.

So I now use this fast notebook for my main PC, and a 10" netbook for travel.

when something like the Asus T101MT netbook-Tablet comes along with the CPU power equivalent to the core i7 (and using a lot less power than the i7), then I may jump across. I love the touch screen concept, but not at the expense of horse power and other features that I need when I travel.

It will happen of course, but not for a little while yet.

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Nope, they will both be used, just like laptops still are too.

Only from fools that dont have a clue.

Corse it is. Anything that has is place will continue, just like desktops do.

chance someone is going to tell you to get a

Their problem.

Usual mindless hype.

Usual mindless shit to get fools to buy their shit rag.

I might for some stuff that doesnt need a full keyboard and where a touch screen is much more convenient like with some very portable requirements.

I really dont like even laptop keyboards much, let alone netbook keyboards.

Frank Slootweg wrote

Plenty ran the same line about desktops and laptops.

Quite a few now dont bother with a desktop.

Thats just plain wrong. The most that might happen is that nowhere near enough want all of that in a tablet to make it viable, particularly your demand on code compatibility with the laptop.

not instead of.

Thats true of most.

I wanna refund.

My android ereaders has a USB port, a LAN port and can use a real keyboard.

Will it recognise hand writing and convert to text? The tablet PC seems slow in coming if it ever will? I also want it in 18" like

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No. As already stated, apples and oranges. They have two clear purposes, though, the netbook can perform the duties of a tablet as well. The tablet has a reduced price tag to make up for it.

One point that is consistently "forgotten" when selling tablets, is they don't have suitable software to duplicate a lot of the functionality of a netbook. It's assumed that EVERYONE carries around a netbook around the house, when a pocket calculator would suffice.

In fact, here at home, I could replace the use of the netbook perhaps once every couple of months to show off some information to guests, and don't want to drag them into another room just to look at the screen. Or I could just NOT spend that money and "drag" out the netbook once every couple of months.

Also to play my MP3 files stored on the server. Or I could transmit that audio with an FM transmitter, and pick them up with an existing radio in the other room.

So here so far, I've saved the purchase of yet another gadget that I don't really need.

The only ones making those claims are either ill-informed, or have a vested interest in stating that. Either to sell their particular brand of tablet, or, to sell tabloid news stories because they didn't have any UFO sightings this month.

Either way, if you're in a position to make a decision on buying one or the other, I would recommend NOT listening to either of the above.

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ALDI are being inovative IMO.

It has a HDMI port and 3 USB ports (for a full keyboard perhaps? It has its own retractable keyboard)

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John Tserkezis wrote

The same mindless line was run with desktops and laptops.

The tablet can do everything a netbook can do too.

Wrong, as always. Plenty of netbooks are cheaper than tablets.

Depends on the tablet. Thats a lie with linux based tablets.

Only dinosaurs like you use pocket calculators anymore.

really need.

You dont really need anything, even the house.

You do really need that fucky canvas jacket with extremely long sleeves tho.

Or just need to sell their shit rag that hardly anyone bothers with anymore.

Pretzl wrote

There will be lots of hybrids.

There already are with desktops and laptops too.