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Read a blurb in the paper about PC and Laptop manufacturers having losses this year....blamed directly on 8.
A) nobody wants it.
B) it's far too busy...designed for touchscreens, and some kind of touch page to find things

plus a bunch of other stuff someone told me it does.
Seems to work good for a tablet or whatever it is....which apparently it was designed for.

I guess this is a maneuver to force us into something we are not comfortable with.
 
After too many years with a PC, I finally solved my Windoze problem. I bought an iMac! Best decision I ever made WRT technology!
 
I get tech blogs emailed to me everyday from ZDNet and the authors keep preaching about how we're living in the "Post PC World". Everything is the cloud and smartphones and tablets and blahblahblah. Ubuntu announced that it was changing it's OS for a more friendly tablet experience. I live in a pretty tech centric area (Los Angeles) and I almost never see tablets in the wild. Go to Starbucks and there are at least 20 people with laptops. Zero, sometimes one tablet in the lounge area. There is a weird disconnect from what the computer industry thinks people want and what they are actually using.
 
I just realized - the only time I see tablets being used is (1) on TV, and (2) at the University student cafe'. A tech savvy guy I know says they're great for games, videos and photo sharing, but typing on the "screen keyboard" is clumsy. My 19th century brain says "what a great new toy!". Not sure that's what we really need.

Tom
 
NutmegCT said:
I just realized - the only time I see tablets being used is (1) on TV, and (2) at the University student cafe'. A tech savvy guy I know says they're great for games, videos and photo sharing, but typing on the "screen keyboard" is clumsy. My 19th century brain says "what a great new toy!". Not sure that's what we really need.

Tom
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That's why I don't own a tablet. I do however own an iMac and Macbook Pro. The concept of typing on the screen has little appeal to me.
 
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