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[ShiZZa]

get a new job if you can't afford $1500 toy.

[remixedcat]

....in this economy,...

[PGHammer]

Zain Adeel, on 18 January 2012 - 05:47, said:

Yess.. $1500 is too expensive . .

I very much like the Samsung slate 7 ..
Its pricey. But you get a dock with iy. A keyboard. And you get a pen. N that is sweet to actually use it. Great tablet for artists. I can't wait to buy it when windows 8 comes out. I trust Samsung with the hardware. But I wish we see such tablets for under 600. That will.totally eat android on the high end.

Yess.. $1500 is too expensive . .

I very much like the Samsung slate 7 ..
Its pricey. But you get a dock with iy. A keyboard. And you get a pen. N that is sweet to actually use it. Great tablet for artists. I can't wait to buy it when windows 8 comes out. I trust Samsung with the hardware. But I wish we see such tablets for under 600. That will.totally eat android on the high end.

In short, you are saying that the ability to run real applications (or even light games) is worth no price premium whatever over an iDevice (iPad2, for example) or Android tablet or slate.



The SAMSUNG Series 7 is pricey due almost entirely to that i5 inside - it's overkill for a slate or tablet - and the price reflects that. It's priced like a notebook with the same CPU - i3, actually, would be a better choice if you wanted to lower the price. (And despite that seemingly high price, that's exactly what the Series 7 competes with; notebooks, not netbooks, which it simply embarrasses. It also beats several NOTEBOOKS like a big bass drum in a marching band.)

I respectfully disagree - tablets and slates that can run real applications have - and certainly deserve - a premium in terms of price over the iPad2 or any Android tablet.

If anything, it's ARM-based tablets and slates that don't deserve a price premium over either iPad2 or Android - because they are just as limited in terms of applications (due to the lack of ARM traditional applications).

Here's how I see the market breakdown: low-end tablets and slates (mostly Android)->midrange ARM-based tablets and slates (and the iPad2)->x86 tablets, slates, and Ultrabooks (the space currently occupied by high-end netbooks, which they will largely replace)->midrange notebooks->desktop-replacement notebooks->gaming notebooks.