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Slate or Tablet?

Slate or Tablet?

  • Slate

    Votes: 6 37.5%

  • Tablet

    Votes: 9 56.3%

  • Something Else!

    Votes: 1 6.3%
  • Total voters
    16
koppit

koppit

Well-Known Member
What do you think they should be called? Personally I'm all for Tablet, maybe because Apple has already paved the way for a new wave of marketing. Traditionally, tablet PCs had keyboards, but these new ones out can't really be called tablet "PCs", anymore.

Slate or Tablet? Should MID be thrown in there?
 
Tablet seems best to me. But I think Slate would work for those with smaller screens, around 5 to 7 inch.

What does MID stand for anyway?!
 
The reason I ask about slates is the definition that I found is as follows:
A Slate PC is actually a type of notebook computer. With a slate PC, input from an electronic pen can be accepted rather than using the keyboard. This type of PC is beneficial in instances where using a keyboard is difficult and awkward. Additionally, a slate PC has the capability of deciphering block letters, and then translating them into ASCII.
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HA! You'll love this.

In general, a tablet PC is a wireless personal computer (PC) that allows a user to take notes using natural handwriting with a stylus or digital pen on a touch screen. A tablet PC is similar in size and thickness to a yellow paper notepad and is intended to function as the user's primary personal computer as well as a note-taking device. Tablet PCs generally have two formats, a convertible model with an integrated keyboard and display that rotates 180 degrees and can be folded down over the keyboard -- or a slate style, with a removable keyboard. The user's handwritten notes, which can be edited and revised, can also be indexed and searched or shared via e-mail or cell phone.
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I believe that all these type devices should be able to take a stylus input..it encourages creativity and opens them up to a whole new market of users.

The Tablet seems to be those small netbook-ish computers that have the rotating screen.

or a slate style, with a removable keyboard.
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"Slate" style meaning it's only the screen.
although a tablet many years ago was just a single flat slab.

I just called them slates because I saw it in a webpage during my research. Either way, they are still going to replace laptops..as the first line up is already a range of 5" to 15", and I'm looking forward to them.
 
dont they already call flat bigger touch screen phones "tablets". Just because of that I vote slate (it sounds bigger)
 
I call them MIDs personally, because they are not really a PC and not really a laptop or notebook. They are meant to be mobile for you to take with you everywhere, and ideally (although in Australia where I am this probably won't happen for another decade) could hook up to the internet via Wifi wherever you are.
 
Why don't they turn the Asus tablet on? And does anyone know what the average cost of those will be?

I am also now interested in whether you would be able to create a dual-boot system out of these things so you could run Android and another OS (Win7 or Linux) on the same machine and choose at boot time.
 
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