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The Post-PC thread
ankhtahr:
I never said that you couldn't do anything on touchscreens. I'm pretty sure it's better for painting and stuff like this (though for that stylus entry is the best option), but for data entry, programming, and such a keyboard is the better choice. For exact pointing-and-clicking work a mouse is still better than a touchscreen. Everything has its advantages and disadvantages.
For data-entry purposes numpads are fantastic. Being able to enter numbers with one hand, while having the other hand free for e.g. the mouse is great.
And about convertibles: Most convertibles don't have the power I need from a notebook nor the portability of something in the ballpark of 7" tablets. For me it's more important to be able to work in bright light than being able to click by touching the screen. For this kind of touchscreens resistive touchscreens are not really suitable, capacitive touchscreens are great but reflective, optical touchscreens (using infrared) allow multitouch and non-reflective surfaces, but tend to get influenced by bright sunlight.
Bottomline: I'm happy with separate Notebooks and Touchscreen devices.
mtmerrick:
The problems with numpads is that they want to be operated by your right hand. For most of us, the right hand is the mouse hand. So unless you're working with a laptops touchpad, it's a pain in the ass to use. Also, many (if not most) laptops have the numpads squished up against the keyboard proper, so you're constantly hitting things like enter and backspace while using the numpad, or arrow keys and other numpad function keys when using backspace, enter, ect.
Masterpiece:
See, keyboard were the main reason why I pushed off buying a laptop in the first place. When I first was in a position to buy my own hardware (back when I did my social service), I'd be repulsed by laptops and the keyboards they had. They were those huge, bulky things with parts that didn't feel like they belonged together and keyboards that were not comfortable to use.
Little has changed since then.
What I like about convertibles (and tablets, while we're at it) is that because of the form factor, manufacturers can't allow things like shoddy build quality - a device that has to be comfortably held in one hand is not supposed to feel like it will break apart with every movement.
That being said, most tablets still have that issue -_- it's why I like Apple. They have a proper idea about build quality. All of their products are built beautifully. The only Win 8 tablet I've used that didn't feel like it was going to break immediately (I am looking at you HP, Toshiba, Acer and Samsung) was the Vaio Tab Duo. Which is why I'm so excited for the 13" variant...
Kugai:
http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/PADD
bryntheskits:
--- Quote from: Masterpiece on 09 May 2013, 16:56 ---What do you think of the Asus PadPhone? That feels like a concept at most, and I'm not sure of its practicality. Also, this:
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Anyone that doesn't get a bluetooth headset for this thing or some sort of headset at all deserve to look that stupid.
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