[JackCY]

good joke mate

1) where is the keyboard and mouse?
2) where is the processing power?
3) screen quality and size?
4) price for what you get

I mean seriously, I can kill any modern computer once I get going XD I will run so many things it will just die! I might actually browse the internet and encode videos on the background
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Or what ever. Just running a photo editing software will eat couple of GB of RAM.

[scorpiomover]

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	I have recently developed an interest in web design.

Nice to know. I've known people in web design for over 15 years. What you think is important now, will completely change in a few years time. Just the nature of the field.

	One thing that dawned on me is there really isn't any reason to own home computer or laptop anymore. It seems like the iPad does it all and its all in one place. I am wondering if this really is the reality of today's world.

iPad is kinda cool, for people who like stuff like expensive mobiles with all sorts of cool widgets. But I like a biggish screen, a decent keyboard, and something where I can switch components easily, for a decent price. Besides, I push computers to the max. If it can be crashed, I've crashed it, just by pushing it to the limit. So unless an iPad can outperform a Cray, it's not even close to my ideal computer, which hasn't even been built yet.

	What kind of computer tasks would you feel it would be necessary to do on home computer or laptop ?

Considering that my friends have had iPads and iPhones for years, and I still haven't bothered to get one yet, just about most things that I would do on a computer.

	I am understanding that the new iCloud system is making disk drives and USB ports obsolete. What do you think?

I've known about the Cloud since it began. I have Opera and Firefox, which both offer cloud-syncing. But I'm still sticking with keeping my data offline. If I wanted to hand my personal information and data to Mr. Google, Mr Microsoft, Mr Mozilla, and Mr CIA, then I would have done so years ago. I value my privacy highly. Besides, I want to protect myself.

On Cloud data, anyone in an intelligence agency could destroy your career, simply by hacking the Cloud, and adding pics of kiddie porn to your Cloud data, and then sub-poenaing your Cloud data on suspicion of possession of paedophilic pictures. Scary thought. But easily doable, and, given what's happened in the last decade, probably did.

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	MS doesn't deny their evil, Apple does. As some trivia, do you know why being that USB and Firewire came out at roughly the same time, why did USB become is more popular? [HIDE="Answer here"] Because they (Apple) decided they were going to charge all OEM's a $1 per connector license in addition to the cost for the parts. USB had no other costs other than the physical cost of the parts. [/HIDE]

Shame, really. When Firewire came out, it was miles ahead of USB. If Apple had competed equally with USB, they'd have cornered the market.

[fifogigo]

Well, that's the nature of the beast so to speak, Firewire is nice, but I can't blame the OEM's and Motherboard manufacturers for that. The price may not be bad for a board or 2, but if your manufacturing thousands of boards, that can add up really quickly. It's also why apple had a large number of firewire ports, why would they charge themselves a royalty?

[Nero00]

Augmented reality will make the desktop and laptop obsolete for the average user.

[ummon]

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	Tactile keyboard is unlikely to go out of style, the iPad is ridiculously expensive for the vast majority of people (for what you get), and anyone who wants to do anything above grandma level in complexity can't do it on an iPad.

Exactly. I've tried the iPad and it's useless compared to my laptop (and my laptop is almost as portable).

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	Ultimately you can make anything do anything you want with enough effort and time, case in point, someone put Linux (or netbsd, I don't remember which) in their toaster....why? I have no clue, but apparently someone thought it was important enough to spend the time on.

NetBSD.

[DrAwkward]

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I would never use an iPad for school and I suspect anyone who would is...not being honest with themselves.

But 's just me.

Laptop all the way.

[discontinuous]

The only way would I accept a (media)tablet as my main 'interaction device', is if it were gateway to a server which runs (m)any software(s)... (somewhat like a remote desktop connection) otherwise, it is not a computer station, it's a consumer station
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Now using a convertible tabletPC/laptop... decent compromise, my only complaint is concerning poor cooling (can't use 100% for long...), and a just small enough but not big enough screen .

[FrankieWild]

tablet is a toy, computer is a tool.

[Firebrand]

Phones and touchpad devices are great for consumption but not for creation.

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	Or program in a decent language (objective C doesn't count)

To split hairs, Objective C does let you completely use pure C and C++.

[babsa]

I like computers and laptops over tablets, but as the years go by, tablets will become much more functional. I have been eyeing the Samsung series 7 for a while now, but finally concluded that i just do not need something that expensive at this moment. The tablet has all the portability of a tablet with the processing power of a 300$ laptop. I wouldn't be surprised to see much cheaper and advanced tablets in a couple years from now.

[Booko]

I use my Nook to sit and read news stories and check the weather in the morning when I have my coffee.

Try writing an 800 page manual on it sometime. Hell, I can barely manage anything more than a 1-line email reply.

A tablet would be nice for my elderly mom though. She nearly swiped mine just for the solitaire game. And she would check photos on FB pages. And read email -- then reply with a phone call.

Also, when doing web design keep in mind there are plenty of us 45+ whose vision is not what it once was. Cramming everything on a tiny screen makes it unusable.

[Zenettii]

Everything type of computer has it's benefits when used appropriately.
A tablet is not going to be the ideal solution to author a book or perform graphics manipulation.

A laptop is a great way to do things on the move and be flexible. You can get some seriously impressive laptops today that gamers run off, with the highest quality settings. You can always use a dock to hook up to a larger screen if needed, but if you're a serious performance geek, then a PC will always be head and shoulders above a laptop just simply down the fact it has more space to build in.

A desktop will probably never die, it'll just evolve.

[thod]

There are physical limits. A phone is limited by the ear-mouth distance for example. I cannot type on the tiny keyboards found on laptops because my hands are of a certain size. It makes little difference to those who pick out each letter, it makes a big difference to those of us who touch type without looking down.