Only laptops and smartphones survive
What say you?
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strollin wrote:docj wrote:
... As a "power user" I find tablets to be "computer--light". I don't find them useful for much more than surfing the web--I can't run Quicken, Photoshop or TurboTax, for example.
Depends on which tablet you get. My newest tablet, a Dell Venue 8 Pro, runs the full version of Windows 8.1 and can run software like Quicken, Photoshop or TurboTax. It even came with the Home and Student version of Office 2013 which includes the full versions of Word, Excel, Power Point and OneNote. Nice little tablet.
That Dell is an electronic Swiss army knife :) Very much what W8 is all about. Things might have been a lot better for MS had such affordable but powerful tab devices been there at the launch of W8.
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The OP article link states that personal computers will primarily be smartphones/phablets or laptops. I would add that smart TVs will fill in for android, ios, and metro-only 'couch toy' tablets.
Looking at apple, it now seems they are not rushing toward a 13" ipad "pro", so poor Samsung's $1000 12.2" Galaxy Pro may turn out to be a prenptive copy-apple misread and perhaps failure. Instead, apple will likely bring in the phablet model w/ a 6" bezel-free iphone.
