[QUOTE="FelipeInside"]Should have waited for Windows 8 Tablets.... would have had a full blown OS.[/QUOTE]

Android > Winblows 8

[QUOTE="NamelessPlayer"]And here I was half-expecting you to buy an HP TC1100 or HP 2730p or Fujitsu T5010 or some Motion Computing slate...you know, actual Tablet PCs, not Android media slates. [QUOTE="kungfool69"]stick to the name brands, but u can buy older models cheaper. toshiba AT100 or Motorola XOOM 1, even ACER A500 are CHEAP in the right places. i have a sony, mum has a xoom.[/QUOTE] That's my general suggestion with mobile computing these days. A typical HP 2730p hovers around $350-400 now, and a Fujitsu T5010 at $500. Maybe not that cheap, but when you consider that the succeeding models are over twice the price in most cases and have little to offer beyond capacitive finger touch options and slightly newer hardware (Arrandale or Sandy Bridge over Penryn), still a great deal.[/QUOTE]

You are not the person that gets to pick the names for things, sorry.

[QUOTE="NamelessPlayer"][QUOTE="GummiRaccoon"]You are not the person that gets to pick the names for things, sorry.[/QUOTE] Neither are you. I'm just saying it goes against an established standard. Then again, standards and markets change. What I really wish is that all the other Android media slate manufacturers would follow Samsung's lead and start putting Wacom Penabled digitizers in their slates (even though it's just the Galaxy Note products for now) so that I'd find them actually useful as pen and paper replacements. x86 hardware and Windows isn't really necessary for that, though it's the only practical option I have in the meantime.[/QUOTE]

What I mean is you aren't using a common term. So there is no point in using it anymore.

They are tablets now, call them as such.

[QUOTE="NamelessPlayer"][QUOTE="GummiRaccoon"]What I mean is you aren't using a common term. So there is no point in using it anymore. They are tablets now, call them as such.[/QUOTE] Not all tablets are made equal, though. I expect some differentiation in terminology to reflect the variation in tablet computers. This isn't like how a typical computer comes in desktop or laptop forms. Processor architecture (and thus the OSes that can run on it) and input methods are key differentiators in the tablet space, and you just expect me to lump them all into one label?[/QUOTE]

If you wish to interact with the world, use the terms the world uses. You are not proving yourself smarter by making up your own terms for things.

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[QUOTE="GummiRaccoon"]

[QUOTE="NamelessPlayer"] Not all tablets are made equal, though. I expect some differentiation in terminology to reflect the variation in tablet computers. This isn't like how a typical computer comes in desktop or laptop forms. Processor architecture (and thus the OSes that can run on it) and input methods are key differentiators in the tablet space, and you just expect me to lump them all into one label?[/QUOTE]

If you wish to interact with the world, use the terms the world uses. You are not proving yourself smarter by making up your own terms for things.

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working in a retail world, u start to get a handle on the common terms. i find a lot of these quite funny. people will regularly ask for "That ipad galaxy" because ipad is the common term for tablet for some people. same with GPS's and video cameras. generic lexicon for video camera is "Handycam", yet thats a sony name. depenindng what part of the world ur from depends if Navman or Tomtom ar the generic name for GPS units.

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are you telling me most people call cola; coke, tissues; kleenex, a portable tape player; walkman?