CES: Dell plans to launch first 'consumer tablet' in late 2012 - Page 2

As Chris Farley used to say "Well La De Frickin Da""

Very well said!!

MS is really hurting on the tablet front. Win8 better be great for tablets or they will have no chance against iOS and Android.

When you are selling all the tablets you can make there's no reason to reinvent anything.

As soon as Apple sees a competitor with a tablet that truly is an advancement (and threat,) the iPad3 will be released, negating said competitor's advantage.

All these CEO's at CES keep forgetting that it's an iPad market, not a tablet market.

I am, beyond a shadow of doubt, utterly and completely ... underwhelmed.

Id shut Dell down and give the money back to the shareholders.

'Late' is the operative word in this headline!

CES: Dell plans to launch first 'consumer tablet' in late 2012

There won't be much left to give soon! Or maybe I'm thinking of RIM ... or was it Kodak .. ?

I can't contain my excitement for this. This tablet will clearly turn the industry on its ear and be different than the 63,299 iPad competitors that haven't made a blip. I can FEEL it. I mean, this is DELL we're talking about here. A name synonymous with innovation.

LOL, good one.

You know everytime I see Dell's tablet name mentioned, I can't help but see the word Steak...I always wonder what genious mind would have named the product as such, and did they do that because they are based in Texas or the simple coincidence that the size of a Streak is roughly the size of a Steak, and both can be tossed in similar fashion.

And Dell will have a tablet fire sale in 2013 to unload unsold inventory.

we will have all moved onto the TabBoard, an ingenious tablet with a keyboard.

Did I already say ... 'Yawn' ... I forget.

I suspect they'll only do BTO

But maybe we under estimate Dell ... perhaps they have a secret eco system ... DellTunes, and so on, we don't know about yet?

Moving on from it's failed line of full-fleged "consumer tablets", Dell reportedly plans to sell an 8x11
recycled paper tablet and number #2 pencil to take on Staples office supplies in late 2013...

Ugh! More plastic crap from Dell

The name of the game, at some point, ceases to become further advancement and focuses on becoming the standard. You do this by taking what you have and getting it into where it will be used, not by chasing a technological carrot. It's now about market penetration.

Speaking for myself I am often seeing iPads in music production studios, both high end and project, since a $500 widget and an inexpensive app (V-Control seems to me to be the front runner and it's $50) and you have a control surface that beats the pants off of what would have cost you twice that not too long ago. And I'm constantly seeing discussions in forums about people who bought iPads in order to use them with their audio gear using apps provided free by the designers (Spectrasonics, for example, and they're one of the biggest soft synth companies around. And they don't offer a non IOS 5 version). Countless other examples. They have penetrated as a remote touch control surface. Are there non-iPads doing this? There must be. No doubt at all. Then why are they so rare (in my personal experience)? Because iPads have a well deserved rep for not breaking. The tactile response is good. The support is good. They work. I welcome stories about Android or other tablets as the front end of a recording studio (don't want to step in it with TOO sweeping a statement like I did about feature films and FCP : ) ) so anyone, chime in with some.

I see iPads as added on tablet controllers for audio rigs and RARELY see other tablets in that role. It requires hardware that was done right with support to get there and no one cares about ecosystems or the next version with more or better anything. In that market, and in the enterprise market, like sailor paul's, all that matters is that it works great right now. I disagree that Apple needs to pull a rabbit out at this point. I understand what you're saying, but that's analyst talk. The fact is that Apple has deeply penetrated the non-casual user/useful tool market and I'm not aware of anyone who is breathing down their neck (except via press releases).