Replies to post #137558 on Intel Corp (INTC)

[mmoy]

I think that most of this board has been saying this for the last five years.

Tablets are also good for reading books.
I have seen tourists using them as cameras too.

[fastpathguru]

But there’s one downside to tablets; they’re great for consuming content and for the most part with sharing it too, however, typing and editing everything from word documents to photos and videos are still tasks that can be achieved faster and in greater levels of detail on a PC. Several people I know were actually surprised when after a year or so of using a tablet instead of a PC, they returned to a keyboard and mouse to find certain tasks significantly could be carried out far more efficiently, despite one of them owning a wireless keyboard for their tablet too.

Nice to see some folks are starting to realize that tablets are
basically flat handheld internet TVs/game players and near
unusable for more complex tasks.

A) It's a surprise to you that some people find that some of the more interactive content creation tasks are easier to perform on PC's than tablets?

B) It's not a surprise to you though, that apparently, many people ARE using tablets even for some of these more interactive content creation tasks? When I said people could and were doing so, I was told, categorically, that I was wrong. Turns out I wasn't wrong after all.

C) Any particular reason you didn't include the preceding paragraph?

The poor sales figures of recent years are due to numerous reasons though. Firstly, while consumers have clearly switched from PCs and laptops to tablets, their reasons for doing so aren’t just down to portability. Tablets are generally cheaper than mid-range and high-end laptops and in tough financial times, it makes absolute sense to cut outgoings. When a tablet does most things a PC can do but is cheaper and more compact, it’s small wonder that when upgrade time came, consumers opted for an iPad or Nexus 7 instead.


I've been saying exactly this for years now, to the vigorous denial of the Intel folks who told me that nobody buys tablets instead of PCs/laptops.

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