Tablets forum: Poll: At home, can you survive with just using a tablet as your main computer?

I do have an iPad, but I can't use it to VPN into work and get through my work day. I need applications like Word, etc. that just aren't available on an iPad. And may need to do a lot of typing as well, which is not good on an iPad.

For what I do on my iPad, a certain amount of internet surfing, read and respond to email if it doesn't require much typing, play games, watch TV shows and movies. If there are things that I want to do that involve a lot of typing, my iPad doesn't call out to me, like writing a long letter, or if I need to use an application not on my iPad.

So, yes, I can do a lot of routine stuff with an iPad, and enjoy using it (I have the "new" iPad, so great graphics), but there's a lot I can't do as well or at all on an iPad.

A simple answer, would be no. I use to monitors at one time. I do E-mail, web search and web sites at the same time. I have more then one tab on each browser window per screen.

Also I game and check web page for that game at the same time.

So no a Tablet would never work for me.

I agree + For me, to take with me for complete mobility, tablets are just a bit on the heavy side - yet.

I couldn't bring myself to buy one. So I do not have any experience with a virtual keyboard.

Bought a netbook 3 years ago and hardly used it.

However, I owned a Psion for over ten years, with great satisfaction, and used it until complete breakdown.

Can anyone tell me if I can connect an external mini-DVD unit to a tablet, or do I have to transfer the videos I want to take with me on a jpourney to a 32 SD Card first ?

You need the hard drive capacity of a desktop if not anything else.

However; I see a time when desktops become personal cloud servers, where you rarely actually sit at the computer and do things. That role will be taken over by supersmart terminals like tablets and laptops.

By tablet do you mean only iOS and Android? If so, no. If you're including Windows tablets, yes. I love my iPad, but it can't do everything, not to mention my IT work. I was playing around with the Samsung Series 7 at the local Microsoft Store, and with it's 4GB of RAM, SSD, and Core i5, I can survive.

Hi,

Simply NO as I use the PC (& laptop) developping and using applications under ACCESS 2010, Word, Excel and graphics (home builder, etc.)

Guess a tablet will not be able to cope with my needs.

Best regards - and thanks for the good work.

The most famous tablet was the one cast in stone on the top of a mountain. It had ten commandments that were meant to be followed by all. It was meant to make make the world a better place. Well before it "got out of the box" it's keeper Moses discovered that his customers displayed needs that this simple tablet was not good enough. he dashed and broke it. Now we have civil law and humans realize that it is a work in progress. So goes computing and networking.

Some day the tablet will evolve into a device that makes laptops look primitive. . I suspect cloud computing will take care of much of the functionality that is missing these days. It is a trade off. Desktops have the electrical and mechanical robustness and work horse power and are easy to upgrade and repair. They do it all. They just do not travel well. Laptops are the next best, but do not travel as well as tablets; specially 7' tablets .

It's a work in progress

Can't use Wi-Fi enabled devices as they conflict with staff systems for resident care giving.

I need 3/8" tall letters to read and I'm not quite 60 yet. I have a 27" monitor with my desktop so I don't spend all my time scrolling back and forth. I'm trying to "Train my Dragon", Dragon Naturally Speaking 11.5 that is. Cell phones? Forget it. Waay to small to read. I have one, for emergencies only, and I can only dial the number I need from memory because there is no way for me to read the address book.

All tablet PC use mere GPU or even no independent GPU due to power saving issue. So how can a game addicted user like me trust on the coming Diablo III can be played well on tablet PC? Small screen, no handy keyboard and mouse, and poor speaker, are just the minor issue. The biggest problem is the poor graphic performance, even in the least setting of effect. So tablet PC is just suit for meeting or on bus traveling situation. When at home, tablet PC takes no chance to replace desktop PC for me.