Assuming you meant bezel (the surround) not bevel (curvature of it) - take a look at the current models and then scale relatively, there surrounds are pretty large too
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New Tablet beats Apple to the punch?
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?? what would it based on? Is apple as big a patent troll as you are imagine?
well... when you copy someones design (in the packaging, who knows about the actual tablet, or if that's even coming out) and try to steal their thunder..... i'd say that's grounds for a lawsuit.
what packaging? apple patented a square box with device in it?
Now that would be a universally recognized patent troll.
Honestly, its hard to see any reasonable person call this thing "copy" apple anything.
Not that I like this thing, but to think apple can sue this? Its just hard to imagine.
Woops yeah I mean't bezel. True the current models have pretty big bezels too but Apple pulls a neat trick with the black screen against a black bezel to make them look smaller.
"Edge to edge" screens are where the design is these days. I'm guessing Apple's tablet would have black edges and an aluminum unibody. Plastic is great to get prototypes up quickly, and to keep costs down like for the Linux tablet in the article, but wow does it look old school.
It has come out already, the EeeTop PC
15.6 in Touch.
Atom N270
1Gb
160G SATA
1.3Mp Webcam
USB x 2
Ethernet, Wifi, BT, etc etc.
4.3 Kg
about 600$
A ``portable desktop''.
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As common as Hydrogen by the end of '09...
Intel's new "convertible" version of the Classmate PC, which features a tilting and turning touch screen is available now (but in short supply) at ~$500 (US) and up...
There's likely to a great number of multi-touch netbooks, tablets, and convertibles with 10-12 inch touch screen coming out in 2H 2009, offered by several manufacturers.
Intel's new "convertible" version of the Classmate PC, which features a tilting and turning touch screen is available now (but in short supply) at ~$500 (US) and up...
There's likely to a great number of multi-touch netbooks, tablets, and convertibles with 10-12 inch touch screen coming out in 2H 2009, offered by several manufacturers.
Because theirs been rumors for several years saying Apple is going to release a tablet, however nothing has ever come of it, and now when it finally looks like Apple might be about to release said tablet, someones already come out with a better, (probably more affordable), probably faster alternative, meaning Apple won't be able to monopolise on this emerging segment.
Think of it as netbooks 2.0.
Missing the Point, Tablet = paper replacement
Apple will do the expensive version of course, but a Tablet is not a laptop or a desktop. If you need to do real work - write a book, graphic design, edit video - you use your laptop/desktop.
If you are reading a book, surfing the net or reading email (90% of most computer use) then you don't need memory or power or anything, all you need is a surface with limited editing functionality. These should be inexpensive, because everyone at your company meeting should have one. Instead of printing out that PDF to review, everyone gets the email. You can draw on it or make edits. These will be relatively disposable.
Every night my wife and I use the net for one reason or another while we watch TV. My iphone is small, but works or you have to sit a 2000 dollar laptop with crappy battery life on your lap just to "read" something. The gap will be filled by the logical evolution. A less expensive email/web device that is a supplement to the desktop/iphone/tablet pyramid. It will have wifi and maybe 3G. Netbooks are still different, but that's why they are popular. People want cheap, convenient replacement for paper, but they don't need a keyboard. Why is this so hard for people to grasp? If I had one of these, I'd never use anything else. Why sit at a desk when you can sit on a couch and be comfortable while you READ not write?
Apple will do the expensive version of course, but a Tablet is not a laptop or a desktop. If you need to do real work - write a book, graphic design, edit video - you use your laptop/desktop.
If you are reading a book, surfing the net or reading email (90% of most computer use) then you don't need memory or power or anything, all you need is a surface with limited editing functionality. These should be inexpensive, because everyone at your company meeting should have one. Instead of printing out that PDF to review, everyone gets the email. You can draw on it or make edits. These will be relatively disposable.
Every night my wife and I use the net for one reason or another while we watch TV. My iphone is small, but works or you have to sit a 2000 dollar laptop with crappy battery life on your lap just to "read" something. The gap will be filled by the logical evolution. A less expensive email/web device that is a supplement to the desktop/iphone/tablet pyramid. It will have wifi and maybe 3G. Netbooks are still different, but that's why they are popular. People want cheap, convenient replacement for paper, but they don't need a keyboard. Why is this so hard for people to grasp? If I had one of these, I'd never use anything else. Why sit at a desk when you can sit on a couch and be comfortable while you READ not write?
Let me help out this start up guys by suggesting them this excellent solution of a magnetic "foot" that is attached to the device as it slightly caves in in its lower part as a magnet and can be detached to serve as a mechanism to hold it up, unlinke the fugly and completely uninspired mechanism they came up with. They can thank me later.
My suggestion
Theirs:
Don't you think the first one is far better?
My suggestion
Theirs:
Don't you think the first one is far better?