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As phone screens get larger and laptops get slimmer and lighter, tablets become more and more useless

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The laptop is like the perfect tablet... compact, more powerful, comes with its own built-in keyboard AND screen stand.

What more could you want?

A battery that is measured in weeks.

A full-sized keyboard. My hands are a bit too big to comfortably use a laptop keyboard.

(I realize that, if the lack of a full-sized keyboard is the problem, a tablet is not the answer...)

Have you tried 13" ThinkPad recently?

I have two tablets. No idea why. Although I do run my compiler on my iPad as an external monitor so I guess it's an extremely expensive, super tiny external monitor.

Me too, the first one had the digitizer and the SD port break and the second simply borked out of the blue... So I bought a cheaper and crappy smartphone to use as a GPS instead...

Too bad I don't know enough electronics to reuse their screens : I could make a neat raspberry pi laptop out of them.

I agree. I've purchased two Dell XPS 2-in-1's (one was an i3 and the other an i5) in the past few years, and I would never go back to using a plain tablet device. The amount of additional functionality that you can use out of the box is staggering. I can do everything from running desktop/server software demos for customers to folding them and using them as a tablet when relaxing and browsing Hacker News.

I think if they just factored in the sales of "phone tablets" like the iPhone Plus, this decline would disappear.

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