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Comment Re:Tablet PCs suck. Always have, always will. (Score 2) 61

A former manager of mine left the Mac team for the Windows team and, of course, had to get all new hardware. He picked up one of those tablet PCs and loved it.

He could plug in a big display, keyboard, mouse, etc and use it like PC. But when he had to go to a meeting, he could unplug it and take notes with a pen--which he said was easier and less distracting to the presenter. When the meeting was done, he would come back to the office and have it turn his written notes into text.

Comment Re:I am sure the airline or airport (Score 4, Insightful) 28

no Siri & AI required and just a browser and internet connection will do nicely

I can do all these things. The idea is...I don't have to.

I don't have to open up messages and scroll through trying to find the message with the flight number (Oh! Mom didn't send it, my sister did), find the website that lets me look up the flight number and airport to get the airline, then go to the airline website that shows arrival times, then go to the traffic website to figure out what time I should leave in order to get there on time. Siri can do all those things for me and come back with, "Mom gets in at 5:30PM, but you should probably leave in 15 minutes if you want to get there on time."

Yes, I can write programs in assembler. But I don't have to.

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