Lenovo reveals 27-inch touchscreen AIO-tablet Windows 8 PC

Re:Lenovo reveals 27-inch touchscreen AIO-tablet Windows 8 PC by Zigurd on Sunday January 06, 2013 @09:09PM (#5018840)

This is interesting, but is it usable? Do you have space on your table? Would you snuggle up on the couch to watch a movie with someone with this held between the two of you? Does it fit down your hallway without turning it sideways? Would you need a butler to carry it and hold it just right for each task?

This is just an object lesson in why Windows 8 is an answer to a question nobody asked.

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Re:Lenovo reveals 27-inch touchscreen AIO-tablet Windows 8 PC by jpxxx on Sunday January 06, 2013 @09:18PM (#5018879)

This is exactly the question I want answered. The idea of a 30" piece of glass running multitouch software is intoxicating. Microsoft tried and shipped it but the units were so barkingly expensive and shitty to set up they went nowhere. Actually using one was marvelous though.

A quick and dirty extrapolation of iPad's design up by 5.2X gives you 7.5 pounds (and the obligatory 10mm thickness and 10 hour battery life). This doesn't have to be a fan-driven HDD-bearing poke-ass monstrosity. There must be software experiences that are materially better at these colossal sizes. And it's clearly technically possible... but the whole Windows hardware idiom is anchoring this down into goofy territory.

If it can be made "properly", does it have a place in the real world? I want the answer.

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Re:Lenovo reveals 27-inch touchscreen AIO-tablet Windows 8 PC by Zigurd on Sunday January 06, 2013 @09:23PM (#5018893)

Two things about that:

1. And it's clearly technically possible...

2. If it can be made "properly"...

Consider how hard it would be to turn any particular app that assumes a single user into one where two people can operate on the same "document" or "world" at the same time. I figure you need a UX system with that concept baked into it before you even start writing those apps.

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Re:Lenovo reveals 27-inch touchscreen AIO-tablet Windows 8 PC by lotharbot on Sunday January 06, 2013 @10:50PM (#5019193)

> "Does it fit down your hallway without turning it sideways?"

Hallways in most of the US are required to be 36" wide. This should accommodate even the 39" diagonal screen currently being tested.

Most of your objections-as-questions seem similarly overblown.

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Re:Lenovo reveals 27-inch touchscreen AIO-tablet Windows 8 PC by shmerl on Sunday January 06, 2013 @09:53PM (#5019006)

The concept is wrong. They better start making tables with touch aware surface and built in user interface. And no Windows please.

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