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Are we talking ARM or Intel. If its the latter, I expect the price to be higher as Intel windows 8 tablets are an order of magnitude more useful than an iPad. ARM? No chance.

Either that or they don't want to compete with the iPad...

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It says ARM in the beginning of the article. I expect Intel ones to be even more expensive, and I don't think there's a market for a $800 Atom tablet that runs like a netbook (the Core i5 Samsung one they showed earlier was around $1200, and it didn't even have retina display).

The iPad has what now - 150,000 touch-optimized apps? Windows 8 x86 has - 100? What are you doing to do with all the unoptimized and sluggish apps on a x86 tablet that will have half the battery life of iPad or Android tablets at best, and costs twice as much?

Correction - iPad has 149,900 shit apps and 100 good ones as does every platform.

Also if its a problem for you personally, just buy a laptop :)

You made your own correction irrelevant when you stated that this happens on every platform, which is true. But that's how great apps appear on a platform, and how great niche apps come to be born on the platform, too.

You can't say "there's an app for that" on a platform with 100 or even 1000 apps totally, even if you have the "top apps" in there.

The famous and misguided "iPad only has a few good apps" argument.

You know what you and others don't seem to understand. Your definition of good apps differs from my definition of good apps. Everyone likes and uses different apps for different reasons.

  > I expect the price to be higher as Intel windows 8
  > tablets are an order of magnitude more useful
  > than an iPad

Right now I can do many useful and/or fun things on iPad. What can you do on Intel Windows 8 tablets now?

Now nothing.

When released, whatever I do on my laptop, which is an order of magnitude more than I can do on an iPad.

>>When released, whatever I do on my laptop

That's the sweet, sweet promise of vaporware you're buying into. I seriously doubt the usability and true functionality of the upcoming round of Windows Tablets.

its not vapourware. I have an X61 convertible tablet already (but I tend to use my T61 more often).

This is just an evolutionary step of something that already works.

I dread trying to use desktop apps on a tablet. If I wanted to use desktop apps while on the go, I'd buy a laptop.

I look forward to doing what I do on my desktop and more on a tablet, but the typing aspect isn't quite there yet. Why fear something like full Photoshop on the go, or a real suite of programming tools at your disposal?

If the typing issue was resolved (without adding a clunky, external keyboard) Then there it would effectively replace the laptop in my eyes.

How about the fact that the UI of many desktop apps responds to hover? Or the fact that UI elements are too small for big stubby pointing implements like fingers?

Typing? So old-school.

In the future, text entry will be via some combination of voice input and a Dasher-like system that lets you gesture-input commonly used words and phrases lightning fast.

Kill your Boddhas. Challenge your assumptions. Or if you will not, get ready to have your mind blown when Apple does it for you.

considering 50% of humans can barely shit in the middle of a toilet instead of the seat, I reckon you're about 1000 years off...

Also for the young and inexperienced, PalmOS grafitti did that in the 90s and it was a POS.

Because the UI for Photoshop was never designed for a touchscreen.

And what on earth makes you think the typing issue can be resolved. Tablets have been around for 20+ years and nobody has solved it.

Tablets have come a long way in those 20 years, my pessimistic friend. At the scale of tablet use, with loads of developers and very smart people in general looking at usability issues, many issues have been solved, and will be.

Any ideas on how they plan to solve the "fingers are big and imprecise" issue?

Not to mention no tactile feedback (deal-breaker for any serious typist) and ridiculous amounts of screen real estate lost to an onscreen keyboard (deal-breaker for any serious programmer).

We will one day have something to replace the keyboard - but it won't be the touchscreen.

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