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Impulseman45
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Sep 11, 2016
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Its not a Tablet, its a monitor that has a pen, touch and tilt, that's all. There is no computer hardware inside. If there were they would be listing the computer hardware specs along with the display specs. Calling something that everyone knows means a complete computer is just not right. This is just a monitor not a TabletPC at all. I knew Massdrop was getting bad on things but this just takes the cake. How can anyone trust them when they can't even get the facts and terminology of a product right.
Sep 11, 2016
DaedalJS
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Sep 12, 2016
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Impulseman45dude graphics tablets (which is exactly what this is) have been around a lot longer than "tablet"PCs you need to fact check your crap. people interested in digital art are the target market for this and know well enough exactly what this aptly named and listed product is.
massdrop can't help that the masses started calling their giant non-call making smart phones without any sort of pressure sensitive pens "tablets" decades after these kinds of things were called tablets. so really it's the masses who should have gotten their facts strait to start with. granted this one is a display version which can lead to some confusion because the general masses aren't exactly bright enough to realize different things can be called the same thing and can't wrap their head around the idea that a device used to digitally write or draw on with a pressure sensitive pen could be called a "tablet" and may well have even been called one first are the issue.
honestly i don't know why they ever stopped calling those things you call a "tablet" slatePC's and started calling them "tablets" when the best you could do with them when that started was some crappy low res digital finger painting. they certainly had almost nothing in common with "a flat slab of stone, clay, or wood, used especially for an inscription" or "a writing pad" like these properly named kinds of tablets do.
tl;dr thank you cap'n obvious, we know this has no PC hardware in it but rather is a piece of pc hardware. the terminology is correct and put to better use than you realize... since you apparently never learned the definition of tablet other than just that's what they called those giant non-phone cellphones. you touched on a long standing pet peeve of mine, not an excuse just a reason. sorry for being a douche.
Sep 12, 2016
Potential178
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Sep 13, 2016
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Impulseman45Hi Impulseman45. Tablets are what these have always been called, they've been around for decades. As wikipedia states up top, Graphics Tablets, not to be confused with Tablet Computers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphics_tablet
Sep 13, 2016
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