{"id":4563,"date":"2010-09-15T07:12:12","date_gmt":"2010-09-15T14:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/palblog.fxpal.com\/?p=4563"},"modified":"2010-09-15T16:47:06","modified_gmt":"2010-09-15T23:47:06","slug":"the-dynamic-duo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.fxpal.net\/?p=4563","title":{"rendered":"The dynamic Duo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <a title=\"Dell Inspiron Duo tablet unveiled at IDF 2010 | Ubergizmo\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ubergizmo.com\/15\/archives\/2010\/09\/dell_inspiron_duo_tablet_unveiled_at_idf_2010.html\" target=\"_blank\">ubergizmo.com<\/a>, Dell demonstrated an iPad-sized tablet device with a fold-out keyboard that runs Windows 7 at the Intel developer forum. While convertible tablets running a Windows OS are nothing new, it&#8217;s a bit surprising that Dell is starting to market one right now to compete with the iPad.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ubergizmo.com\/15\/archives\/2010\/09\/dell_inspiron_duo_tablet_unveiled_at_idf_2010.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Dell Inspiron Duo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ubergizmo.com\/photos\/2010\/9\/dell-tablet.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"468\" height=\"312\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->In some ways this makes sense &#8212; having a keyboard and being able to run standard Windows applications will appeal to those wanting a light-weight tablet &#8212; but the success of the iPad is due in equal parts to hardware and software design, and Windows 7 applications are no match for iPad apps. Without a coherent user experience design and a device-appropriate user interface, the Inspiron Duo will be doomed to compete with netbooks, a rather smaller and less glorious market than the iPad.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder if between Dell and MS, they will try to create some sort of a UI library that would make it easy to build user interfaces appropriate to the device. I bet it wouldn&#8217;t be so hard to do the development; the hard part would be to create a coherent look and feel.<\/p>\n<p>The other question on my mind: will it have a stylus? The implication from the Gizmodo piece was that it was finger-activated, but Windows 7 incorporates all the stylus-support of the old Tablet OS. It&#8217;ll be interesting to get my hands on this device.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While convertible tablets running a Windows OS are nothing new, it&#8217;s a bit surprising that Dell is starting to market one right now to compete with the iPad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16,24],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fxpal.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4563"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fxpal.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fxpal.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fxpal.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fxpal.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4563"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fxpal.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4566,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fxpal.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4563\/revisions\/4566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fxpal.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fxpal.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fxpal.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}