10 inch tablet used as keyboard/input device
This is certainly coming from left field, but I'm wondering if it's possible if the rumored 10 inch tablet could be used as a keyboard or an additional input device for desktops. Apple is already shrinking the keyboard size so if the they ever decided to bring out a 10 inch tablet multifunction touch screen it could also be used as a wireless keyboard (we already used to it's small size). If they built a isight camera into it as well it could work in conjunction with the desktops isight camera to provide the ability to move the mouse via hand gestures and etc.
What are your thoughts??
What are your thoughts??
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A 10" diagonal display device with a small bezel would be physically "around" 9.25" wide. Apple's small keyboard is 11" wide. So it's not exactly the same thing.
Though yeah, a touch keyboard for a desktop would be cool. But we're not talking simply an input device meaning typing, but a complete rethinking of how a desktop OS behaves. There are a number of threads on this subjects.
The real power come from Global keyboard support, dock across the top of the keyboard, custom keyboard for each Application etc. Big rethinking is needed for this, and Apple is not ready for that yet. Let them bring out this tablet, study how the market reacts and give them a few years. It will be an option at some point, very likely.
Well yeah, but no.
A 10" diagonal display device with a small bezel would be physically "around" 9.25" wide. Apple's small keyboard is 11" wide. So it's not exactly the same thing.
Though yeah, a touch keyboard for a desktop would be cool. But we're not talking simply an input device meaning typing, but a complete rethinking of how a desktop OS behaves.
I was thinking that the (tab,caps,shift, enter,[,],?,+) keys would be reduced in sized or replaced by a different method since most of the qwerty alphabet keys can be utilized within a 10 inch screen. The keyboard could obviously be customized (it's just a touch screen) and each key can be given a multitude options.
A touchscreen could provide far more options than these keyboards.