Four Tablet Designs that Solve the Typing Problem

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The first time I saw the iPad, I wondered how we could type on it. Sure Steve showed off how convenient it was to keep it on your lap and tap on the large multi-touchscreen, the way you'd type on an actual keyboard, but I still had my doubts. And now after actually trying to type on a tablet, I've realized that they aren't as bad as I'd thought they would be. But still, I wouldn't want to type something as long as this write-up on a tablet, yet.

I'm sure there are people who feel the same way. A few companies also understand the sentiment that although people might be smitten by the touch-based usage of a tablet, they still want their keyboard handy. Long before the iPad, there existed typical laptops with rotating touch screens, such as the HP Touchsmart TX series. But they were clunky monsters that weighed a massive 2 kilos and above.

The machines mentioned below are smaller than tablet PCs, having Netbook-like 10-inch displays. They have improved upon the initial Tablet PC design, to give people the touch experience of a tablet with the presence of actual QWERTY keys - the best of both worlds. Whether people will accept this convergence of two separate devices (tablets and portable computers) is something that we'll know in the future. But here's a round of applause to these guys trying something different.

My jaw dropped when I first saw this concept. It's the kind of thing that would make you say, "Now why didn't anybody else think of that before!". In its typical form, you might pass the Inspiron Duo as yet another cheap Netbook. But the Flip-hinge design allows you to swivel the screen backwards, and voila, it morphs into a tablet. This design in my opinion is much better than the typical singular hinge at the center of the base on traditional tablet PCs. The display is a capacitive 10.1-inch multi-touch type, with an HD (1366 x 768 pixel) resolution. There's a typical keyboard and touch-pad, so you can use it like a Netbook. Flipping the display 180 degrees and closing the lid hides the keyboard-touchpad well, and the curved body should call for better ergonomics than those old tablet PCs

It runs Windows 7 Home Premium that is powered by a dual-core Intel Atom N550 processor and 2GB RAM. There is Dell's Stage UI overlay to make Windows more finger-friendly in tablet mode. There's also a typical spinning 320GB hard drive, that's around 20 times more storage than what you typically get on a Tablet like an iPad or the Galaxy Tab. Unfortunately, its measly 29Whr battery such as dell Inspiron E1705 battery, dell Inspiron 6000 battery, dell Latitude CPi battery, dell Latitude CPX battery, Dell Inspiron 3700 battery, Dell Precision M40 battery, dell Latitude D820 battery, dell Inspiron 6400 battery, dell Inspiron E1505 battery, Dell Precision M50 battery cannot provide sufficient juice to the comparatively power-hungry internals for long; thus running for just four hours (where many tablets run for as long as 10 hours).

We love the Inspiron Duo's design, but we'd really like to see an Inspiron Duo designed more with a Tablet in mind than a Netbook. We're talking of those dual-core Tegra chips we saw on many tabs in CES 2011, coupled with Android 3.0 Honeycomb which should give you a faster and better experience than Windows on an Atom processor. Also, replace the spinning hard drive with flash storage would help conserve battery. Lastly, a slimmer chassis would be the cherry on the icing.

What you'll get is a innovative design concept that will give you the best of both worlds; the touchy-feely usage of a tablet that can transform into a typical computer at the flick of its screen hinge.