Odd Laptop-Tablet Hybrids Show PC Makers' Panic

Posted by Soulskill on Friday June 8, 2012 @04:16AM from the my-tablet-does-not-need-a-joystick dept.

jfruh writes "Taipei's Computex trade show has seen an array of strange devices on sale that are somewhere between PCs and tablets: laptops with screens you can twist in every direction, tablets with detachable keyboards, all-in-one PCs with detachable monitors. Some have Intel chips, some ARM chips; some run Windows 8, some Android. They all exist because of the cheap components now available, and because Windows 8 will make touch interfaces possible — but mostly they exist because PC makes are starting to freak out about being left behind by the tablet revolution."

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Re:WTF? by Runaway1956 · 2012-06-08 04:42 · Score: 5, Funny

But - I quote: "Windows 8 will make touch interfaces possible"
To summarize, the world has been waiting on Windows to enable us to have touch interfaces. So, what is this "Apple" to which you refer?

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