A500 tablet... well kinda

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We aren't. The Amiga is dead, and will remain dead unless someone magically finds a way to revitalize it.

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I threw holy water on mine, and now it refuses to boot.

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Yeah, once my laptop breaks (or when I get sufficiently bored with it) I'll probably buy some kind of tablet too. As long as it has an USB port then I'm good.

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Well yeah, but the mouse provided an intuitive interface for actions the keyboard wasn't well-suited for. The touchscreen is admittedly a nice, intuitive alternative for many (but not all) mouse operations, but you still need a way to enter text, and touchscreen keyboards are mediocre at best - anything large enough to type on comfortably eats huge amounts of screen space, and having no tactical feedback just sucks.

I can see the usefulness of this in a smart phone (certainly a better approach than the Blackberry models with three dozen keys the size of micro-M&Ms, not to mention the various terrible approaches involving assigning multiple characters to the normal buttons on a phone keypad,) but when you're using a laptop-size device anyway, it makes zero sense to not have a proper keyboard.

That's why the USB port comes in handy; you add a keyboard if you need one. Now we only need proper linux distros for those things!