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Sony Tablet revives the idea of dual-screen productivity

What do you think about two 5.5-inch screens? Is that enough room to do tablet tasks?

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http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/hiner/sony-tablet-revives-the-idea-of-dual-screen-productivity/8215

What about the toshiba w100 last year? Yet another story about another badge doing what has already been done, guess when apple does it in 4 or 5 years, it will be they invented it.

the Acer Iconia is that they primarily rely on Windows, with just a few UI enhancements tacked on.

Doing a dual screen tablet requires a more fundmental re-think of the user experience in order to really take advantage of the potential benefits and not just turn the lower screen into a semi-permanent on-screen keyboard.

I know - people get tired of hearing detractors, but I still think it needs to be said.

I'm sure people have devised some use for these, but rather than gimpy, wannabe consumer-lite products missing key features and filled with proprietary garbage, I REALLY want someone to develop an extremely high-end portable workstation. I need something can handle crazy bandwidth, Multiple high-volume, high-speed drives and hold blazing fast multi-core multi-threaded processors and huge blocks of ram. I'd love a mobile video editing/compositing workhorse with dual Xeons or i7 970+ processors (or hex cores from AMD) - but there simply aren't any available anywhere from any vendor (likely due to cooling issues.)

I don't understand why R&D is focused on force-feeding us silly little products when they could resolve those issues with newer designs and could leap-frog all their competitors with a high horsepower laptop that would blow everything on the market out of the water. If there was a machine that was mobile, not loaded with crapware and came pre-loaded with 10x the horsepower and broadly compatible it would sell itself silly. If it came pre-loaded to dual-boot windows and some user-friendly version of Linux, consumers would pay any-price because of the flexibility, stability and options it could provide. What gets me is that it shouldn't be that difficult to pull off.

/shaking head
/moving on

Because this is where the giants get to dupe consumers into bleeding all their hard earned money into these so called silly products. They are generally affordable and fun to use. We IT folks aren't the mass users of these so called silly products but that's why they sell well.

they need a doking station for the office.

My beef with these devices are that the cell phone providers are offerring these devices and are not allowing you to make phone calls on them. I don't want to have to carry a phone and a tablet. Just one or the other. Will the Sony tabs be able to make a freaking phone call????!!!

Yes, I too am /shaking head [sic] and /moving on [sic], for the purveyors of technology are simply tone-deaf to what we really want: a handheld Cray with 360-degree holographic projection system, surround sound, and Higgs Boson detector. I want HUGE blocks of RAM, multiple drives, direct satellite uplink and onboard color laser printer. And oh, yes, a cold fusion based energy cell for power with a molten sodium heat sink. Yeah, now that's MY idea of technology!! When are these people going to start paying attention to ME?!? And this idea of carrying multiple devices? Preposterous! Everything should ultimately be fused into one uber-device that will slice, dice, communicate, navigate, educate, entertain, and absorb 27 times its own weight in excess stomach acid. Wait a minute, isn't that kind of like the pod in 'The Matrix'? When is somebody going to make a pod into which I can thoroughly ensconce myself? As long as it has HUGE blocks of RAM...

Lately we get a lot vague rhetoric and beautiful play of words from bloggers and pundits without much substance to what they truly want to convey. oyu