Kohjinsha’s netbook tablet — wait, what?
So another company has entered the Atom based netbook game, but this time Kohjinsha has seen fit to include a touch screen on their 8.9″ netbook. So does that make it a netbook tablet computer, or a tablet netbook? Regardless, the good: the resolution is 1280*768. Now, the bad: it has a touch screen.
Seriously, a touch screen on a netbook? Are they insane? And it runs Vista? And it runs a slower Atom? Well, at least they included 1 gig of ram with it.
In all seriousness, I’ve had a couple of tablet computers and I’ve wanted to love each of them. As a writer, they seem like the ideal computer for creative enterprises, but the reality is that the implementation to date has been terrible. Maybe Microsoft doesn’t know how to do an effective tablet interface, maybe I’m too set in my ways, but whatever it is, the actual tablet computer features (outside of Photoshop) have been gimmicks thus far.
Of course, tablet computers are big in the medical industry, but for the rest of us average users they’re a waste. Take for example the HP Pavilion tx2500z tablet computer. I had one of these and returned it within two weeks because it was such an awful computer. It had a faster, more powerful processor (even though AMD is otherwise behind Intel), more memory, a better video card than Kohjinsha’s netbook tablet (tablet netbook?), and the tablet function is still awful. The tablet lags. It’s that simple. It lags. You can watch as you drag the cursor around and then wait while it processes your inputs.
So as anything other than a gimmick or for marketing it to the medical industry, I have to wonder why in the world Kohjinsha has decided to make this netbook tablet computer (tablet netbook?). Read more at AVING.
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