2010 | The Year Tablet Computers Takeover?
Tablets have been around for many years, nearly as long as laptops. I have been using one since 2001 and they were pretty uncommon at this point but apple first made and manufactured a tablet in the 1980s. With their latest product due to release in the next few months being the Apple iPad.
It seems in the last couple of months many tablet PCs have been announced and ready to be sold. All in one go? (Possibly due to the fuss over the Apple iPad.) Almost like a tablet takeover.
Will tablets be the next big thing, or just an extra accessory to the laptop. I believe that laptops will never be replaced by tablets due to the lack of keyboard, and the ability to efficiently include all the hardware a laptop does inside the screen of a tablet, along with good enough battery life.
There have in the last 3 months been 12 Tablets announced from various different company’s. Many to rival the new Apple iPad……
- Apple iPad
- ExoPC Slate
- HP Touchsmart TM2
- X2 iTablet
- Lenovo IdeaPad S10
- HP iSlate
- Digital Rise X9
- Lenovo Thinkpad X201
- Lenovo Thinkpad X201t
- Acer Aspire 1820PT
- Panasonic Toughbook C1
- Lenovo IdeaPad S10-3T
This was with only a quick scan of the internet. There are properly many more with a bit more search. Also only being 2 months into the new year I am sure there will be more released before the end of the year.
Time will tell who gets the advantage. My bets are on Apple as they have created so much build up to this product and the number of pre-orders Apple are expecting to take.
But why the sudden need for Tablets? Why only now after being available for many years are they beginning to be everywhere, with all companies getting in the Tablet industry?
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I am amazed how many Apple has sold already. Looks like this is not a fad!
They are pretty cool and sell well, but in the end you will still need a fairly comfortable keyboard attached to these gadgets if you really want to do the things that you did so far with a notebook. It is of course, not impossible to plug one in if the designers and customers want that but you will end up having a “notebook” split in two parts instead of the solid brick that we all know; I guess the key part of the equation lies there: How to make people work and play with a computer in two parts instead of one and like it. If this succeeds, it is likely that tablets will indeed replace notebooks.
so ive been happily using my Quaduro QuadPad 3G machine with integrated 3G since about jan this year http://www.quaduro.com and I cant help but think that 2010 will really be the year tablets take over. mainly because they are getting cost effective. i picked by machine up with 2 gig ram and 300gb hd with integrated hsdpa for under 1000dollors. bruupp brupp quaduro.