M11x Tablet

just saw this

Dell Inspiron Duo flips its lid on official video -- Engadget

Do you guys think Del''s ever going to make Alienware Tablet / convertible based off M11x like that in the video or HP TM2 style hinge for M11x?

 

no ...........

 

That would be nice, although I'm still not impressed by the flip screen. It really has to be subtle to the point where you wouldn't know it flips until it actually does. I would like to own a Tablet PC, but I'm not impressed by any of the designs.

However, more than anything else, Microsoft has to do some major redesign to Windows in order to make touch work. While it's a great desktop OS, it's simply not touch friendly as we've seen from these terrible Slates. Hopefully, they have a "morphing UI" type solution. Imagine something like an iPad interface in tablet mode, but the regular desktop interface in desktop mode.

 

If you were keen on getting a tablet, look up Adam by Notion Ink. The best design for a tablet by far!

 

seems pointless on a laptop geared towards gaming

 

If it didn't result in the screen being really terrible or washed out, I certainly would not be opposed to it as a student.

 

Exactly what I was thinking. The market for people who would want a gaming laptop and a tablet seems small. Plus, it would raise the price considerably.

 

I think it would be great something like a M11x with transformation tablet mode, and gyroscopic sensors etc, for casual games and 2D, or presentations, drawing, and a convenient, intuitive and fast multimedia, to see their videos photos etc with great multitouch experience.

and also the power of games in a gaming machine as M11x is the perfect mix for the future, and 10 "in size and as light as possible

I would buy a product like this, with all the illusion of the world's more, if dell inspiron duo take dedicated GPU graphics, I would buy, but have not said anything and I'm thinking that I will not have this sort lucky...

 

not with my tablet. I edited it out because I second guessed myself, but with your reply I decided to try it out, and nope, that's not how it works--not with my TX2500z anyway. Tapping makes it fire but doesn't move the mouse to where you tap like it does with a mouse cursor.

 

+1 but Insipron duo is powered by atom not c2d or i series
Folks here seem to be gaming on their m11x 24/7 lol and thats all they can think off.

imo tablet m11x would also make it better for Photos, Videos and power point presentations. I sometimes wish Laptops had gone the desktop route where you could buy a chassis and individual components build it like we want it, instead of, being at mercy of these companies that refuse to innovate.

 

No, because convertible tablet PC designs are absolutely useless for 99.9% of people out there. It is a gimmick that is a nice-to-have. The only people today who have a use for tablet PC's are professionals (e.g. medical professionals, warehouse workers) who are on their feet all day and need to use a computer for data entry. On top of that, the data entry needs to be menu-based to be effective, because typing / writing on a tablet using 1 hand is horrifically unusable.

 

The reason that laptop manufacturers don't do this is because creating a generic chassis with user-upgradeable parts would require you to over-engineer the machine to handle heat, size, and power requirements for future upgrades. When you do that, you sacrifice heat and portability. Many people (me included) are not willing to make that sacrifice.

They tried creating user-swappable GPU's through the MXM standard. But it never caught on. The idea looks good on paper. But even if your laptop supports MXM, you have no guarantee that it is upgradeable. It is hard to find out which GPUs that an MXM laptop supports, whether those GPU's are any improvement to the GPU that you already have, whether your laptop can supply enough power and cooling to handle new GPU's, whether the new GPU's require new pin or power requirements, etc. Addressing all of those issues would require laptops to be over-engineered.

 

They already created this product. It's called the Apple iPad.

Even if they created a version of the M11x that supported all of this, I would never buy it, because every PC game ever created was designed with interfaces for people sitting down in front of a keyboard, mouse, and monitor.