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My $200 Laptop Can Beat Your $500 Tablet

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the where-have-i-heard-this-before dept.

Roblimo writes "Yes, we know tablets like the iPad are the wave of the future and that PCs and laptops are dead. But some of us see tablets as laptops with their keyboards missing and a few hundred bucks tacked onto the price."

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  1. It can beat my table? I hope so. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    > My $200 Laptop Can Beat Your $500 Table

    But my table is good for holding food at dinners. Can your laptop do that?

  2. Additional tablet feature by elrous0 · · Score: 4, Funny

    My greasy fingerprints all over the goddamn screen.

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    1. Re:Additional tablet feature by Abstrackt · · Score: 5, Funny

      I suffer from the same problem so a continual problem with tablets that I don't see going away.

      I just started using a napkin.

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  3. You're missing the point by BadAnalogyGuy · · Score: 4, Funny

    Tablets (the separate species from TabletPCs) are meant to be take-anywhere devices. That iPod or Android phone in your pocket? That's a tablet.

    It isn't meant to be the device that you rely on to do your heavy work. It is a portal device, to get you to important data immediately, wherever you are.

    Spock doesn't use a tricorder tablet because it has a million features and CPU to spare. He uses it because it is handy and can connect to the Millenium Falcon when it needs to perform more CPU-intensive calculations.

    If you think your laptop is better, then that's great for you. But the fact of the matter is that you have simply been left behind technologically. You are a relic.

    1. Re:You're missing the point by MMC+Monster · · Score: 5, Funny

      Spock doesn't use a tricorder tablet because it has a million features and CPU to spare. He uses it because it is handy and can connect to the Millenium Falcon when it needs to perform more CPU-intensive calculations.

      Wow. I think you managed to cause a stroke in all the Sci-Fi nerds on /. at once.

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  4. Re:It can beat my table? I hope so. by PopeRatzo · · Score: 4, Funny

    But my table is good for holding food at dinners. Can your laptop do that?

    Actually as I look down at the keyboard, my laptop has a surprising amount of food on it. I see crumbs from my bagle yesterday morning. I see a little shmear of dried egg on the shift key. And I think that may be some hardened mozzarella cheese on the corner of the trackpad.

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  5. Re:It can beat my table? I hope so. by arth1 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Sure - if I push a button on it, a cup holder even pops out!

  6. Re:It can beat my table? I hope so. by peragrin · · Score: 1, Funny

    I think you just made the point of why tablets are superior than laptops.

    no keys to have food get stuck between meaning you can clean it with a damp towel, instead of expensive canned air(it's even more expensive than bottled water).

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  7. Re:It can beat my table? I hope so. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Dude, that's NOT cheese...