World is over the PC: former Microsoft exec

I tried the iPad 2 and I won't be going back to any tablet anytime soon. Sold it and that was the most wise decision I've made in a while. I still had to depend on my Dell Laptop for all my downloads i.e. movies, Lars Behrenroth Deeper Shades House music and a hell lot of other stuff. Tablets are great for surfing the net, reading books, emails and pictures, for everything else PC is the ultimate winner
 
Mbuzi said:
I tried the iPad 2 and I won't be going back to any tablet anytime soon. Sold it and that was the most wise decision I've made in a while. I still had to depend on my Dell Laptop for all my downloads i.e. movies, Lars Behrenroth Deeper Shades House music and a hell lot of other stuff. Tablets are great for surfing the net, reading books, emails and pictures, for everything else PC is the ultimate winner
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+1
 
Tablet = gimmick

EDIT: For a bit of both, try the Lenovo X220 Tablet, which is a laptop with a fully rotateable touch screem. :cool:
 
Really wish they would stop comparing these gimmicks to PC's (Macs are PC's too...). Tablets and Smartphones are just extensions which enhance your PC experience.
 
Precisely..

a tablet is an extension, not a replacement at all.

I will always have my PC (be it a laptop or desktop) and I will now always have a smartphone and a tablet. It lets me do certain things wherever I might be without the need to fire up a full PC experience.
 
I agree to an extent. Personal Computing is becoming less device hardware dependent. Devices are becoming little portals to hosted applications/services. I like the SAP example. You don't need to have a PC to run SAP. You could easily have it hosted via Citrix, APPV, VMware or whatever. A simple terminal service client would suffice - providing you not only with the SAP client, but a whole computer desktop experience.

I also like the example of movies on a local machine. This is out of necessity more than preference. Once international bandwidth is sufficient and our local connections hit the 20-100Gbps range, we'll be able to consume video etc. straight off the web - no need to store local.

Gaming is a bit of a grey area. Hosted gaming hasn't panned out too well to date.
 
ThatOtherGuy said:
What's this guy smoking? How is the whole finance department of a massive company gonna do their work in SAP on a tablet?
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Dock the tablet into a base station that has a keyboard and mouse etc, like an Asus Transformer (although this won't happen unless companies let their employees take the screen home)

Nobody is asking all the PC users of today to suddenly drop their hardware and switch to something that makes no sense for their use case. All they are talking about is the evolution taking place at the moment, where consumers realise they don't need to lug that awkward laptop around just to consume digital media, when they can get the same thing done on a tablet AND get better battery life as well.

Creators on the other hand will need their PC's for quite a long time. Whether you're creating *.xls or doom 6, that will require the tools to make your workflow easier (keyboard, mouse, large screen)

The 2 things serve you best when they work together, such as having the desktop PC to work on and the mobile device to depend on for entertainment/communication while away from your workstation.

I hope that the 2 end up converging quickly to give us workstation dock + mobile touchscreen soon.
 
Whew!! This comparison AGAIN.Decide what you are:

Content consumer = PC is dead, long live the tablet
Content creator = Long live the PC

Now can we get on with it.
 
Watching Sky News last night, they were talking about a school/class (not sure how widespread it was) where all the kids and teachers each had a tablet. Presentations on overhead by tablet, etc.

On of these kids was typing faster on tablet than I can on my keyboard.

The also said that they are selling 6 computers for every tablet. Not too long ago that was 20 to 1.

This appears to be the future.

I worry about the kids of South Africa. Unless we pro-actively invest in education, and not lowering the standard of education or lowering the pass mark, we are going to fall behind the rest of the world, with whom we are trying to compete. The school going generation of today will fail to compete internationally.
 
Ever since the whole Nokia "burning platform" incident, every company is trying to give their employees a defibrillator shock into getting the business right...
 
McT said:
I worry about the kids of South Africa. Unless we pro-actively invest in education, and not lowering the standard of education or lowering the pass mark, we are going to fall behind the rest of the world, with whom we are trying to compete. The school going generation of today will fail to compete internationally.
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I thought we were there already...
 
Lol one could always make games tailored to tablets...oh wait...Gaming standards would drop and the world would end -_-
 
DarkmatterZA said:
Lol one could always make games tailored to tablets...oh wait...Gaming standards would drop and the world would end -_-
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Lol. Then again if you see what Ubuntu is doing with Android smart phones. Tablet owners could just as easily use a mouse & keyboard.

Sadly I don't see Apple buying into this.
 
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