Quote ="Big Graeme"I find tablets pricey for what you get and can be quite under powered, having said that the first thing you need to do is add another 1GB of RAM to any netbook to get it to a decent spec so either get them to add it in the store or make sure you can do it yourself.'"
But surely as tablets run different software - it's all relative. They might look under powered on the spec sheet, but it don't think anyone using a modern tablet will find it underpowered. It will startup fast, resume instantly, launch applications quickly, switch applications quickly, render web pages quickly etc. Also, unlike that netbook (with its 320 GB 5400rpm disk), all tablets will use solid state storage.
I think how we look at hardware will change over the next few years - the assumption that more == better isn't always true when looking at portable devices. When discussing about the memory footprint reductions in Windows 8 against Windows 7, [url=http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2011/10/07/reducing-runtime-memory-in-windows-8.aspxSteven Sinofsky[/url made a case that 512MB of RAM is sometimes not better than 1GB:
Quote In any PC, RAM is constantly consuming power. If an OS uses a lot of memory, it can force device manufacturers to include more physical RAM. The more RAM you have on board, the more power it uses, the less battery life you get. Having additional RAM on a tablet device can, in some instances, shave days off the amount of time the tablet can sit on your coffee table looking off but staying fresh and up to date'"
Quote ="Enicomb"I'll just make this a short post and say Netbook over a tablet every time. Unless you have some particular need to use it with one hand.'"
But the industry is far more interested in making thin + light laptops or tablets. And those are the two options which seem to [url=http://www.theverge.com/2011/10/26/2516622/tablet-exceed-netbooks-android-increasingsell the best[/url.
[url=http://venturebeat.com/2009/04/22/apples-tim-cook-why-dont-we-make-netbooks-because-they-suck/Tim Cook[/url basically had it right on netbooks. It was easy to laugh at as he made those comments, but he looks quite prophetic as now manufacturers are [url=http://www.theverge.com/2011/12/15/2639138/dell-quits-netbookslining up[/url to [url=http://www.engadget.com/2011/11/25/is-samsung-giving-up-on-netbooks-next-year/exit[/url the netbook market.
