One can turn this question around. When I'm away from a full size computer, the majority of what I'm doing does not require any significant input. Watching movies, playing games, reading news/books/email, etc. Why in the world would I want to waste the weight involved in a keyboard for something I would only rarely use, and would mar the form-factor? In my experience though, there is no deficiency in using the built-in software keyboard for the cases it's needed, and if I'm dong longer form work a Bluetooth keyboard is more than adequate. (at least on iOS devices; I hated the soft-keyboard when I had an android phone). Kris Browne kris.browne at gmail.com http://www.google.com/profiles/kris.browne "the least expensive, most bug-free line of code is the one you didn't have to write." - Steve Jobs On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 02:14, Mike Miller <mbmiller+l at gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, 17 May 2011, Steve McGrath wrote: > > I have a gTablet, it's crap. >> > > [snip] > > Any interest here? >> > > The thing I wonder about is why I would want one. I have a netbook -- I > like that for when I travel, for taking notes at lectures, etc. It has a > keyboard, which helps. I see a lot of interest in tablets right now but I'm > not sure of why I'd want one. When I see an ad for the iPad tablet, they > make it look great, but most of what they are showing is really nice > software that has nothing to do with the device, as far as I know. > > The one thing I an appreciate about it is that it must be nice for reading > stuff, like newspapers, maybe books or journal articles. It would be > awkward to turn a netbook sideways, but it's easy with tablet. Is that the > main selling point? - That it's nice for reading stuff? For movies it seems > like a netbook would be nicer because it automatically holds the screen in > the right position and it gives me a keyboard that I can use easily for > pause, rewind, fast-forward, etc. > > So I'm not sure I'm getting the attraction unless it's all about reading > (as it is with Kindle or Nook), but maybe someone here can fill me in. > > Mike > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20110518/1c74435b/attachment.html>