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Ask Slashdot: Why Do Most Tablet Specs Suck?

Posted by EditorDavid on from the low-battery-warning dept.

Slashdot reader Qbertino describes himself as a "happy tablet user," moving from an old HTC Flyer to his Yoga 2. But he notes that most other tablets "have laughable battery times," and "I've yet to find a tablet that does not give me storage or memory problems in some way or other, lasts for a day or two in power and doesn't feel chintzy and like it won't stand a month of regular everyday use and carrying around..." He asks why none of the manufacturers seem willing to offer more than one gigabyte of RAM -- and why they're so stingy with storage. "Where is the rugged 16GB RAM / 1TB Storage / 20-hour battery tablet?"

So leave your educated opinions in the comments. What are your thoughts on the current tablet market? And are they the ultimate all-purpose "convergence" device that Apple and Ubuntu seem to think they are?

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  1. people want cheap by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    apparently these days cheap is all that matters - quality doesn't

  2. Advertising, that's why there's no storage by CRCulver · · Score: 5, Insightful

    and why they're so stingy with storage.

    Because the business model of a number of tablet makers is giving you little on-device storage so that you start using their cloud storage service, which gives them an opportunity to sell you an additional service or sell your data to advertisers, duh.