Sliding ahead? - Review of the Asus Eee Pad Slider
Well, you gotta admit, the iPad sure was a game changer on the electronics market. Ever since it came out, tablets have been all the rage, and have pretty much pushed netbooks to the brink of extinction. And Tablets do have a lot going for them: Their touch screens make surfing the web much more comfortable, their OS is simply faster than Windows and, in some cases, even faster than Linux, and they are generally just fun to use. They do have one major drawback though, they aren`t built for someone who does a lot of typing, like yours truly. Those on-screen keyboards just aren`t the most comfortable things to use, especially as they block part of the screen. So when the time came around for me to replace my aging Acer Aspire One 110L netbook, tablets were far from my first choice. However, nothing in the netbook sectio really caught my eye, and for a while, it looked like there really was on reasonable replacement out there. Then I spotted the first hybrid devices, namely ...