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	marxian	2011-03-10 , 17:59
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Originally Posted by ysss

Aye, I know what you mean; but with a good tablet you can comfortably:
- read without a table (bed, sofa, bus, subway, etc, even standing up)
- manipulate the document much faster and more intuitive than with mouse/trackpad (pan, zoom, flip pages with single gesture that combines multiple commands)

So it's definitely not just a viewing angle issue...

I haven't used any of the larger tablets, but I would have thought that being able to tilt a netbook screen (whilst the device sits flat on your lap) would make it easier to read than a tablet. Obviously, a tablet has the advantage for reading when standing up.

As for gestures, I'm not keen on them. Maybe I'm an old stick-in-the-mud, but I generally find gesture controls annoying and imprecise. Perhaps this will improve as the market matures. For now, there's only one two-fingered gesture that I enjoy using.

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