Odd Laptop-Tablet Hybrids Show PC Makers' Panic

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jfruh writes "Taipei's Computex trade show has seen an array of strange devices on sale that are somewhere between PCs and tablets: laptops with screens you can twist in every direction, tablets with detachable keyboards, all-in-one PCs with detachable monitors. Some have Intel chips, some ARM chips; some run Windows 8, some Android. They all exist because of the cheap components now available, and because Windows 8 will make touch interfaces possible -- but mostly they exist because PC makes are starting to freak out about being left behind by the tablet revolution."

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