Comments on: Daring Fireball: The Tablet http://www.carrypad.com/2010/01/01/daring-fireball-the-tablet/ Smart, Mobile and Internet-connected. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:23:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Zeuxidamas http://www.carrypad.com/2010/01/01/daring-fireball-the-tablet/#comment-346 Zeuxidamas Sat, 02 Jan 2010 11:02:21 +0000 http://carrypad.com/?p=446#comment-346 Of course no one asked me, but IMO: 7", should support both landscape and portrait VKBs (would be great if display tech would allow a light enough touch for you to tap-type with one hand while you held it with your other hand); desktop display should allow something like OS X's Spaces but be "swipe-able" like WebOS; a little nub-arm prop like the ones that come with the iMo 7" USB sub-monitors but that snaps into a recessed cavity on the back of the device would be great for watching video. Protecting the screen? A chemically-hardened screen like on the HP 2730p EliteBook? (but then maybe the display is not so bright-and-shiny; I could stomach that knowing that you could take a baton to my screen and it wouldn't break, but the mainstream user wants a glossy screen). it does not matter to me if this device comes from Apple or someone else. I just need a slate-style companion device that has a 7" screen, has a decent VKB and allows a USB KB plug-in, allows me to view and edit any MS. Office docs, and lets me both consume media and create/produce content on the go. Not a tall order, is it. - Zeux..>> (from my Palm Pre Of course no one asked me, but IMO: 7″, should support both landscape and portrait VKBs (would be great if display tech would allow a light enough touch for you to tap-type with one hand while you held it with your other hand); desktop display should allow something like OS X’s Spaces but be “swipe-able” like WebOS; a little nub-arm prop like the ones that come with the iMo 7″ USB sub-monitors but that snaps into a recessed cavity on the back of the device would be great for watching video. Protecting the screen? A chemically-hardened screen like on the HP 2730p EliteBook? (but then maybe the display is not so bright-and-shiny; I could stomach that knowing that you could take a baton to my screen and it wouldn’t break, but the mainstream user wants a glossy screen).

it does not matter to me if this device comes from Apple or someone else. I just need a slate-style companion device that has a 7″ screen, has a decent VKB and allows a USB KB plug-in, allows me to view and edit any MS. Office docs, and lets me both consume media and create/produce content on the go. Not a tall order, is it.
– Zeux..>> (from my Palm Pre

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