new form factor<\/a>. Instead of docking a tablet with a keyboard or making\u00a0 a laptop where you can swivel the screen around and click it shut, the Taichi actually has a screen on the lid. In other words, fold the laptop closed and BOOM, tablet. Part of me wonders how practical such a device is for day-to-day use. The rest of me yells at the other part to shut up because this sounds like a cool gadget to play with.<\/p>\nKeep in mind that those are all just from one day of Computex and only three companies. That’s not even counting the new touchable desktops that HP and Lenovo have recently made and what else we may see at the show. Will the consumer public embrace touch as much as the hardware makers seem to want them to? I’d argue that we already have, and this is the market responding to what they absolutely know we want.<\/p>\n
And by we, I mean me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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