Dell to Launch Streak Tablet in United States This Week

Long boot times??.. less than 7 seconds in my case. I put my PC mine into sleep mode and when I return I hit the return key and its up and running before I have had time to sit down properly.

You can't seriously consider doing professional photo editing on a shiny tablet, especially one where you have to use your fingers. There is no finesse, no right click either... Could it really cope with having several 100mb files in active memory?

Klimecki, your now sounding like a crabbit old man who is sooo out of touch with reality.

"No professional using Photoshop would want to do it on a portable with a 10" screen."

Thanks for continuing to tell everyone else how they are expected to use their computers. I would use Photoshop on a tablet -- if you've seen what I've done with Photoshop you can ascribe a professional level of talent.

For a single moment lets assume some people do more with their stuff than your beloved Apple permits. For example, I've said it before. *all* of their products are completely useless in *every* field I've worked in. In many cases you're legally not allowed to use them.

I'm not going to prepare a photo exhibition on a tablet, but on vacation, I would take the SD card from my camera, plug it in, touch-up my photos, and upload them to my website so that the family gets to see. It would be more than adequate. If I needed to do something insane like add people to the photos who weren't really there (and color/shadow match the new arrivals), then yes, I'd wait to get to my workstation.

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No professional using Photoshop would want to do it on a portable with a 10" screen.
The great thing about the iPad is that there is next to zero boot time. It's always almost 'instant on'. No waiting for lengthy windows type boot times or AV software getting in the way and sucking your processor power.

Seriously... Why??????

Whoever gets to a tablet first with a computer OS, that can run Photoshop or anything else, will make a difference and sell a lot of units. Throwing more smartphone OSes at the situation is just... Dumb.

It basically sounds like a Dell phone with a 5" screen. I can't see how anyone is going to get excited about that. Too big for a pocket, and too small to consider leaving the laptop at home.

If it were 199 or 299 for a wi-fi model, I could see a point. 300/500? This thing will go-off about as well as the Pre or Kin.

You guys ever see a TV show and wonder, "How the *heck* did they ever decide to spend money on that?" (I saw Knight Rider on NBC a couple years back -- seriously, paying the producers millions to do *nothing* would have been cheaper than the crap they created). I'm kind of thinking the same thing about Dell on this one.

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Read my second post.