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Posted by J. Clarke on June 27, 2005, 10:06 am
Please log in for more thread options CeeBee wrote:
> William P. N. Smith wrote in comp.sys.laptops:
>
>> plus a high-end (well, it was _last_ year 8*) desktop with giant
>> disks, lotsa memory, a gaming video card, and all the
>> peripherals I need all the time.
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> And probably a lot of heat and noise which irritates me more than
> anything. By now there are only a few peripherals not available in
> a high-end laptop.
So where do I get one with a terabyte array, a 21" display, and an IBM
buckling spring keyboard?
> My guess is that those current desktop rhinos will disappear all
> but for server applications. My second look in the crystal ball:
> hail to the lap- palmtop PDA and tablet PC's in less than ten
> years.
The PDA market seems to be in decline--Sony, with Sony marketing and Sony
build quality and the Sony reputation and some of the best designs on the
market couldn't make money on them. If tablet machines were all _that_
popular there'd be a lot more of them on the shelf at Worst Buy and
CrapUSA. I wouldn't mind having one if it had tilt and rotation but none
of them do--if I was going to spend that amount of money for something
tablet-like it would be a Wacom Cintiq.
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--John
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