Is the netbook going to be replaced by Tablets in 2011?
Predictions have started early this year that the netbook is dead too. A touch over-exaggerated perhaps?
If you're buying a relatively small, cheap laptop in 2011, there's a good chance someone is going to tell you to get a tablet, or ask why you didn't.
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Me, unless the tablet is in a form factor like the Asus T101MT netbook
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then I won't be getting one.
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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.
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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"I'd buy that for a Dollar!".
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.
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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