"If you see a stylus, they blew it. If you see a task manager... they blew it." -Steve Jobs
Yeah, because finger painting is so much better than drawing or painting. For precision, I like a stylus, even on my iPhone.
Panasonic Toughbook Tablet
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#42This might even make sense for me, if:
- the display is as bright as the good old toughbooks, means it must be readable in bright sunshine
- the system is able to boot Linux
- it runs on 12V
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#43Wow a lot of the people in this thread don't get it. This isn't for you. This is for doctors, and architects (which is pretty obviously indicated in their marketing material).
A lot of people are very uncomfortable with the notion that not every product is targeted at them. It's an ego thing. If I was Freud I'm sure I could explain it better.
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#44This isn't for anyone. _Anyone_. Beyond the 300-350 pixels per inch, the 'sharpness' and the 'detail' is not perceivable by human eyes. It's a wastage of power, memory and CPU/GPU resources. This is what happens when Marketing dictates Engineering.
Is that really true in general? I'd say the difference in print start to disappear around 600dpi (dpi/clarity isn't really discernibly different between a 600 dpi print and a 1200dpi print. But up to 600 dpi, I'd say there definitively is a difference)? Granted, with current technology we have single-coloured pixels, so 300 ppi is really 3-900 dpi (or pixel-parts) -- that might have something to do with it?
The dots in your basic 300dpi monochrome laser printer's output are black or white, but on a 300ppi screen you could antialias with grey pixels (or even subpixels as you note), which can boost perceived smoothness/quality a lot. Figure here conveys a difference between PPI and DPI pretty well: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dots_per_inch#DPI_or_PPI_in_dig...
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#45A little off-topic, but I like how marketers trying to sell Win8 have to use fake application screenshots. Where are the actual apps that let you share blueprints? Oh, right. They're not sexy at all, and wouldn't benefit from a 4K display. Too bad.
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#46Panasonic is dying... I've been following this company for my whole life. Their concepts are bad and their focus is wrong. Typical Japanese company with board full of elder chairmans, who are afraid of big change. I don't see light in this tunnel....
I beg to differ. They have an awesome rice cooker, and their Panasonic Platinum line of big portable radios was cool in the 80s.
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#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
How exactly would one hold a 32" tablet, or situate it at a desk? Arms grow very tired operating horizontal touch screens, and if the screen is on a table, angled, it's awkward to sit and look at.
Only one way and that's comically: http://mashable.com/2013/10/07/fox-news-deck/
Ha ha. Ridiculous. The reason why smartphones and some tablets are popular has less to do with touch than with size. It's pleasant to hold a small screen a foot from your face for reading and watching videos.
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#48This isn't for anyone. _Anyone_. Beyond the 300-350 pixels per inch, the 'sharpness' and the 'detail' is not perceivable by human eyes. It's a wastage of power, memory and CPU/GPU resources. This is what happens when Marketing dictates Engineering.
Is that really true in general? I'd say the difference in print start to disappear around 600dpi (dpi/clarity isn't really discernibly different between a 600 dpi print and a 1200dpi print. But up to 600 dpi, I'd say there definitively is a difference)? Granted, with current technology we have single-coloured pixels, so 300 ppi is really 3-900 dpi (or pixel-parts) -- that might have something to do with it?
Depends on how close the page is to your face, and how well you see. The type's size also matters. 7pt type at 300 dpi is not that attractive due to pixelation. However, to even see that, I need my face at 10 inches from the page.
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#49Wow a lot of the people in this thread don't get it. This isn't for you. This is for doctors, and architects (which is pretty obviously indicated in their marketing material).
And video editors.... except that video editors spend a lot of money to buy controllers for video editing, because video editing is about frames. It's about maintaining some illusion of continuity by messing with video by the frame. They need to controllers because they sit in a dim or dark room all day. And they won't want to touch the screen and get it dirty.
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#50Wow a lot of the people in this thread don't get it. This isn't for you. This is for doctors, and architects (which is pretty obviously indicated in their marketing material).
I remember discussions after the iPad came about how it was useless on construction sites, wouldn't last a month etc. If this is durable enough it could sell nicely. Also, having synchronized 'digital' data might help avoiding some issues like outdated underground blueprints (college machine room suffered network and power shutdowns because of wrong digging location.. how crass)
ps: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6705169 says the specs aren't as impressive as panasonic toughbooks, someone needs to test this in real life. Slow mo guys maybe ? www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OH1CKIQdpw :p