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HP Continuing To Flee Windows Reservation With Android Tablet
Nerval's Lobster writes "Hewlett-Packard seems more determined than ever to flee the Windows reservation, unveiling a $170 Android tablet, the HP Slate 7. It runs Google Android 4.1, the first version of the 'Jelly Bean' build, which has been ever so slightly outdated by the recent release of Android 4.2. This isn't the first time in recent memory that HP's opted for a Google product over one offered by longtime partner Microsoft. As it helpfully pointed out in a press release, HP has produced a Chromebook running Google's Chrome OS, a largely cloud-dependent operating system for laptops and notebooks. Built around Google services such as Gmail, Chrome OS also offers access to the Chrome Web Store, an online storefront for apps. If HP and other manufacturers increasingly adopt Google's offerings over Windows, it could cause some consternation among Microsoft executives. Microsoft, of course, is pushing Windows 8, which is meant to run on tablets and traditional PCs with equal facility. If it wants the Windows division to continue as a cash cow, it needs manufacturers to adopt that operating system in massive numbers. Android and Chrome OS could make that strategy a lot more difficult."
Sadly, your example shows the level of intellectual functioning of many people these days. Mindless consumers of content who rarely are able to produce any significant coherent writing whatsoever, because thats all these tablets and such are good for .
For actual content creators with an IQ over 120, the desktop is not going anywhere. Its the best, most comfortable way to produce content, with a full size, free standing keyboard and a larger screen. A must for going to college and for work. I cannot imagine doing college work on a laptop, I know people do. But it is allows little flexibility for positioning of the screen and keyboard relative to each other. They also provide a much worse value as far as CPU and hard drive capacity per dollar.
Touch screen is ridiculous for work. The reason we use keyboards and mouse is so that the arm can rest on the desk. Using a touch screen at a desk continuously becomes uncomfortably very quickly.