we used to run work apps on an ibook 500 g3 on trips - I'm not using Final cut here -C2D and 4 gigs of ram is not a requirement... it just needs to open and function, and like I said, I do not need a keyboard to make a few edits, not typing a novel... but I do need the software to work. Full OS to me means the possibility of compatibility with the applications I have at home and at work if I am not there.
So you've defined the files as video files. Again, do you really expect to be able to edit video on that device better than if you opened up a marginally bigger laptop? The point is that this HP "slate" is just as poorly suited for major video editing as the iPhone is (major as defined by more than just cropping things like you can do on the iPhone which is pretty good considering the iPhone was always labeled as an information consuming device instead of a creation device).
no my Iphone edits very few files of any benefit work wise - but my laptop can not make cell calls so it serves a function. I can live with "not the best way" If it is small and light (why I have an Air) but It is not a compromise when you can not even open your file. It is not an Option when the function is a duplicate only with a new form factor yet does less - what is it we going to do? walk around with an Iphone (phone, web, apps), tablet (web, apps), laptop (everything else)? it makes no sense
Stop being coy and just say what you need to do on a mobile device so you can stop acting like you need to simultaneously edited an spreadsheet while producing a major motion picture. You can't claim your editing needs are both simplistic and advanced at the same time. Additionally, you bring up the Air as a device and then compare it against a mythical Apple tablet. In fact you're actually more closely comparing the Air to the slate device shown my Microsoft, seeing as how that device was actually shown and the Apple tablet device has not been seen by anyone outside of Apple.
Here is another question. Did walking around and surfing the web on a phone make a lot of sense pre-iPhone? How about MP3 players? Were they ubiquitous before the iPod? Just because the market is lame and hasn't produced anything worthwhile doesn't mean technological advancement is impossible (I'm not saying Apple is infallible, the AppleTV is not exactly an innovative product).
yes exactly my point... I bought a netbook (XP home) for my uncle for web surf, email and online banking away from home. 2 months later he asked if it could run Quickbooks (you do not need C2D and 2 gig of ram to run that) I said sure... he now also has Office and turbo tax on it - some People do not want a plastic tricycles (some OS light+apps) - but cars (a full OS and the application they know - within reason) even if just a 2 cylinder... not the best, but you can get there if need be
No, that wasn't my point. You believed I meant "full" OS was a car and "Windows XP" was a bike and linux was a plastic tricycle.
You are wrong.
Linux is the plastic tricycle because it so completely lacks any innovation. It is a tinker toy for children. It apes the Windows UI yet it is even more of a nightmare when it comes to things like drivers or installing apps as far as normal people are concerned. You shouldn't have to use the CLI on a computer with a mouse.
The same is true for a multitouch device. You shouldn't have to feel like you need to use a mouse.
Different UIs for different needs. Linux is a good server but shoehorning it into a consumer operating system is doomed to failure. Windows 7 is a decent consumer OS but it makes a pretty horrid multitouch OS when just slapped on in its "full" form.
That is why Apple has different versions of OS X. There is Mac OS X for computers with keyboards and mice/trackpads. There is also Mobile OS X for devices like the iPhone and iPod Touch. Yes, they're both OS X. Yes, they're both essentially "full" (you can run a server on an iPhone). We have no idea what they're going to put on the tablet. Knowing Apple though it will be tailored to the device and not just shoehorned in and labelled good enough.
