Microsoft fans keep saying that with WinRT you will get two things in one – a tablet and a laptop. Many even add “a professional laptop”. In their minds the only thing that differentiates a tablet from a professional laptop is a keyboard. This statement sounds pretty stupid. Nowadays professionals more and more tend to use a high-end laptop, most often a MacBook Pro, as both a desktop and a laptop. In my company, for example, this became a standard configuration. All new employees get a MacBook Pro, a large display, and a wireless keyboard and mouse. The display and keyboard always stay on their desks and they have the freedom to take the laptop wherever they like and do their work in any place. Thanks to the power of MacBook Pro they are able to run multiple OSs in VMs and have an environment that satisfies all their professional needs. So how a WinRT tablet with 2Gb of RAM and 32 Gb of storage is going to replace a professional laptop? Maybe it will some day in the far future but presently it’s a bad combination.
I agree - let's pray! Note we do not say "in thermodynamics we trust", we say "we trust it to you God" (or something like that) when it comes to the most intimate thing in our life - money.
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Microsoft fans keep saying that with WinRT you will get two things in one – a tablet and a laptop. Many even add “a professional laptop”. In their minds the only thing that differentiates a tablet from a professional laptop is a keyboard. This statement sounds pretty stupid. Nowadays professionals more and more tend to use a high-end laptop, most often a MacBook Pro, as both a desktop and a laptop. In my company, for example, this became a standard configuration. All new employees get a MacBook Pro, a large display, and a wireless keyboard and mouse. The display and keyboard always stay on their desks and they have the freedom to take the laptop wherever they like and do their work in any place. Thanks to the power of MacBook Pro they are able to run multiple OSs in VMs and have an environment that satisfies all their professional needs. So how a WinRT tablet with 2Gb of RAM and 32 Gb of storage is going to replace a professional laptop? Maybe it will some day in the far future but presently it’s a bad combination.
I agree - let's pray! Note we do not say "in thermodynamics we trust", we say "we trust it to you God" (or something like that) when it comes to the most intimate thing in our life - money.