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To: pyslent who wrote (132257)	4/26/2012 5:34:19 PM
From: pyslent	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 213181

Been thinking a bit more about the appeal of legacy desktop support... When comparing Windows 8 tablets vs. Windows RT tablets, I would consider legacy support to be an advantage, albeit not a huge one. And that's assuming all other things are equal (price, battery life, form factor). Of course, along with the advantages of traditional Windows comes complexity, and I won't list the disadvantages here. At the end of the day, you probably want both a decent laptop and an iPad.

To: pyslent who wrote (132257)	4/26/2012 8:31:18 PM
From: Cogito	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213181

>>To me, the appeal is that in a pinch, you have a full PC. I probably spend 95% of my non-working computing time on my iPad (mobile smartphone usage ons separate ledger). For the remaining 5% of the time, I still need to own a real computer. Occasionally, I do need to run full desktop versions of Turbo Tax or Photoshop, etc. Now, whether x86 tablets will be powerful enough to replace my PC is another story, but I will say that my main PC is 1st Gen netbook running Windows 7, so the performance bar isn't very high :).<< So you'll attach a keyboard and a mouse or trackpad to the tablet? Is that what you mean by having a full PC? Because running a desktop version of Photoshop, or even Turbo Tax, using a touchscreen sounds like an exercise in frustration and futility to me. .