So if this:

had a large touchscreen instead of physical keys would it be a killer tablet PC?

I look at this and think of a point Marshall McLuhan made in Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man: that just before a new medium arrives, the older medium mirrors some of the behaviors of the new one. My point isn’t that this idea can be correlated 1-to-one. but there’s something to it. Are tablets really going to take off the way we all think they can (finally)? This eee Keyboard is essentially weirdly formatted laptop (with no on-board battery I presume). Why not go all the way here and merge the Optimus Tactus with the eee?

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