In 20 years time, just as it was 20 years ago, power will still be proportional to size.

Yes, tablet devices in 20 years time will be vastly superior to the best PC's today but something that fits in a PC sized enclosure will still be that much faster and more powerful again and, hopefully, programs and applications will be pushing those machines just as todays applications push todays machines.

Will PC sized devices still be around in 20 years time? I hope so...

Quote - But don't you like to read? Heard of the Gutenberg Project?

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Yeh but if you are doing that a Kindle is far cheaper and has a battery life of around a month.

Well if I can ever afford one, I'm going Android or Windows for a tablet, preferably a SamSung device. I only just last month came kicking and screaming into the SmartPhone world (I swore I'd never own one!) Now I find myself playing with it wherever I go. My Ebook reader sits at home uncharged.

I would never own an Apple, not even second hand. Knowing what we know now about their slave labor force in China, it goes against everything I believe in as a freedom loving American!

Being retired, crotchety and cranky, I have my own philosophy concerning the recent elecronic complications to life.

I don't have a cell phone.  If I wanted to talk on the phone, I'd stay home to answer it.

I don't have voice mail, it takes a bit and getting the right representative, but ATT can be convinced to turn it off.

I don't have call waiting, if you get a busy signal, wait an hour and call again.

I do have caller ID, if I don't recognize the number, or it's blocked, or no name, forget it.

I do have a laptop, but old, unused for a long time and damaged. 

I do have books, those related to my own interests, personal or professional.  Probably several hundred, at least fifty connected with metalworking techniques, maybe as many dealing with astronomy.

I don't have an iPad, kindle, or any of that other stuff, it's just a continuing expense I don't need.

Life can be easy when you don't give a damn anymore.  One person in this house, it's run the way I want it to run.

D.

P90XXX I think you're a hoot!

P90XXX sounds very much like me.  I do have a cell phone but it's not in use, the battery's flat and I haven't charged it in months.  I don't own - and never have owned - a laptop.  I have (as stated above) thousands of books.

Technology is great if you want to use it.  I hate it when it becomes intrusive or becomes just more stuff to do.

P90?  I'll have you know I have two I7's.

But I did make one misstatement, 2 cats in the house, should tell you how it's run and by who.

Decided when that stuff started coming out to watch it for a while, decide if I need it or not, so far the answer has been "not".  Maybe it makes me a luddite, but if that's the case, then it's also true that luddites don't thow money away for things that are just going to irritate them more.

Hehehe... I guess I'm the only one who's watched those late night exercise commercials for P90-X.

There is only one advantage I can see to Tablet Poser....instead of opening one of Phil C's great scripts using a mouse and scroll wheel and finding the make art button and clicking on it, you'll be able to just speak the words "Make Art."That's it!

Explain to me how a tablet will ever equal dual 24 inch monitors and 3TB of storage and i7 quad core (if and when apple releases their next MacPro, then it will be a 12 core box). How many memory hungry apps can you open at once on a Tablet?

20 years from now I'll be the most popular guy in my rest home with those nice big monitors to get me and the other guys in the rest home all excited when they see some female poser character naked in a temple with a sword and I have my mouse pointer over the breast size morph dial. :ohmy:

Quote - I would never own an Apple, not even second hand. Knowing what we know now about their slave labor force in China, it goes against everything I believe in as a freedom loving American!

I'm not an Apple lover although I'm writing this on my iPad but it's no just Apple that's guilty in that area. Plenty of other manufacturers and motherboard makers make use of the same facilities under the same circumstances. May have to give that PC back then...

Was going to say about the same thing, Magic_Man, but I let it pass at the time.  Basically, the same could be said about all of tech and about EVERYTHING in WalMart.

There was a great story on Chicago Public Radio's 'This American Life'.  Talks about all of the major players, all in a city in China.  Great show.

Best Wishes,
Rªnce

Subtle difference is that not every company in Walmart I trying to be a high class company, buying something cheap and knowing it came from China is one thing.  Having a device made in the same place but hyping it up to be something different is another.