On Tue, 13 Mar 2012, ma...@mohawksoft.com wrote:
On Mar 12, 2012, at 10:07 PM, ma...@mohawksoft.com wrote:
The laptop is dead too, tablets will become the new laptops. Bluetooth
keyboards and mice, plus a master USB port, will make them more usable
than laptops. Android will make them price competitive.
When people buy desktops, they tend to pay extra for big screens, large
memory and fast processors. Doesn't this indicate that a tablet is a weak
substitute for a desktop when mobility is not required? If they didn't
value the big/fast stuff why pay extra for it in the circumstances when it
is available? And if they value it, won't they buy it for those
circumstances?
In a few years tablets will have processors as fast as current desktops,
and could conceivably have as much memory and disk, but they will never
have 23" screens. In my office big screens and multiple screens are quite
popular. Even the laptop only users like to have a desktop screen to plug
in.
With respect to processor speed and memory, do we really think that
software will not continue to absorb more and more cycles and memory, such
that 5 or 10 years from now a desktop with twice the power of a tablet
won't still be dramatically faster at many tasks (though not at pure media
consumption, obviously)? But perhaps the Hollywood dream that computing
could be reduced to media consumption will come true.
Daniel Feenberg
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