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RE: Missing the Usecases
by allanregistos on Fri 21st Sep 2012 08:29 UTC in reply to "Missing the Usecases"
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I think you are missing the basic use cases. That's what really matters. If a tablet can ultimately fill in for the use cases of a traditional PC, then ultimately it will supplant the PC.


Then these are the traditional cases of a Traditional Personal Computer(tm):

Please answer,

In the future:

I can do multi-OS installations on a tablet?



I can run high-end software on it? Think about Blender, Maya, Lightwave, Modo, CorelDraw, Illustrator, Photoshop as these software needs multi-core CPU and GPU power??? Not to mention those custom software developed by companies for in-house use!

Yeah, tablets are now quad-core, and they can be stacked together in "hundreds or thousands" to form a cluster / HPC, so that we can render images generated by our 3D software in minutes? Then, how much it will cost in the future? Will it cost less than buying off-the-shelf components?

Yes, in the future they will have more cores, but do you believe that in the PC industry, it won't advance further into more powerful CPUs with more powerful GPUs?

You mean, I can run high-end games on a tablet in the future? So if it can run today's high-end, what do you expect from the PC gaming industry? Just watching movies?

But then, the PC components(CPU/GPU/MOBO/HDD/Mem) will morph into smaller form factors, so that in the future, it is possible to stack them together to form a tablet, including a multi-touch monitor and then I can create a PC out from it. What will happen to the tablets at that time then?

I can go on and on, with so many use cases of a traditional PC that are not possible in a tablet, now and in the future.

Sure, the Tablet supplants the PC's use cases of checking email, opening doc attachments, viewing/reading books. Editing documents, playing casual games, viewing video clips. But that's it, a tablet is a supplement to the Traditional PC, a helper.

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