06-03-2014, 06:02 PM
vision63 wrote:
[quote=RAMd®d]
Just imagine 'tired arm syndrome' from reaching out to your iMac screen. . .
Exactly.
It would have value in a laptop with a removable screen to make a tablet/laptop combo.
I think somebody has something like that already but I just don't see Apple making that kind of product.
They don't have a choice but to make this. It's coming. The sooner the better. It makes too much sense. They'd cut off their noses to spite their faces if they don't. You "know" you want this.
We've had convertible tablets for years! When we equipped our medical office with electronic-medical-records software in the fall of 2004, I bought the providers three Fujitsu Lifebook tablets, which were laptops whose screens rotated and folded back to make a tablet. They were not touchscreen, but you could use a stylus to write on them. As it turned out, the providers used them almost entirely as laptops, carrying them around open, and sometimes using the stylus on the screens. Why? Because you had to be able to type when interviewing a patient or doing notes.
I gather that in some professions the tablet mode was more useful, e.g. land surveyors, RE people, etc.
Obviously MS, Dell, et all are making newer styles of convertibles now. Will Apple? I wonder.
/Mr Lynn