3rd February 2010, 5:06 PM
1) Those screens are not better than monitors.
2) You can't use one of those things as you can a PC. Very important point.
3) You can't upgrade it, really. Hugely important point for PCs. 600GB? But my computer has 1TB of HDD space, and I'd like more... and a good graphics card, and more -- and it's three years old. What you want is to destroy PC gaming and replace it with the Apple Apps Store. This would be HORRIBLE.
4) You can't get it very powerful. You say this doesn't matter and obviously want PC gaming to just roll over and die, but I don't think it's going to do that... maybe eventually CPUs that can also do graphics will get better than they are now (right now they are horrible, and the fact that lots of people have those instead of graphics cards (which is what they actually should have, no one should have onboard graphics!) is one of the biggest things holding back PC gaming... and you want things to go full speed in the exact wrong direction. I could not possibly disagree any more.
5) VIRTUAL KEYBOARDS ARE AWFUL! Real ones are far better! Also, there is NO replacement for an actual mouse. Laptop touchpad things are awful, and touchscreens only a little better. Neither can match the convenience and ease of use of a mouse.
6) Battery life. And if you're using it on a wire, why use a small, gimped thing like one of those instead of an actual machine which will surely be much better and more powerful? There's no reason to unless you can't afford to have both!
The problem is, that this is a self-fufilling prophecy -- people who get this thing might THINK that that's all that they want, but what they're actually doing is making it so that they can't get anything better... so then they go and play Xbox games instead of PC because they don't have a good enough PC... but they don't have a good enough PC because "how would it have been useful". Well, in having a good enough machine to actually run games, that's how... :)
2) You can't use one of those things as you can a PC. Very important point.
3) You can't upgrade it, really. Hugely important point for PCs. 600GB? But my computer has 1TB of HDD space, and I'd like more... and a good graphics card, and more -- and it's three years old. What you want is to destroy PC gaming and replace it with the Apple Apps Store. This would be HORRIBLE.
4) You can't get it very powerful. You say this doesn't matter and obviously want PC gaming to just roll over and die, but I don't think it's going to do that... maybe eventually CPUs that can also do graphics will get better than they are now (right now they are horrible, and the fact that lots of people have those instead of graphics cards (which is what they actually should have, no one should have onboard graphics!) is one of the biggest things holding back PC gaming... and you want things to go full speed in the exact wrong direction. I could not possibly disagree any more.
5) VIRTUAL KEYBOARDS ARE AWFUL! Real ones are far better! Also, there is NO replacement for an actual mouse. Laptop touchpad things are awful, and touchscreens only a little better. Neither can match the convenience and ease of use of a mouse.
6) Battery life. And if you're using it on a wire, why use a small, gimped thing like one of those instead of an actual machine which will surely be much better and more powerful? There's no reason to unless you can't afford to have both!
Quote:When you strip a computer down to what people want, it's less than 300 brand new and that blows people away. The normal consumer thinks a computer should cost at least a grand, otherwise its 'no good' or 'too slow'. But they dont realize they're buying a work horse when all they want to do is water their flowers.
The problem is, that this is a self-fufilling prophecy -- people who get this thing might THINK that that's all that they want, but what they're actually doing is making it so that they can't get anything better... so then they go and play Xbox games instead of PC because they don't have a good enough PC... but they don't have a good enough PC because "how would it have been useful". Well, in having a good enough machine to actually run games, that's how... :)
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