Quote Originally Posted by tajoh111 View Post
First off tablets are cheap enough and are not 1500-2000. Even priced separately, you can get a tablet for 400 dollars and core i5 laptop or llano laptop for about 600 dollars.


the dock would have to have its own CPU, RAM, HD and graphics

As a result, the screen(which is a pain in the ass compromise as having a 10.1"-11" screen on your main laptop is annoying[which it better be at 1000+]) and I guess the keyboard(which will be terrible considering it has to be sized to fit a 11"-10" screen) are the only thing that can be shared between the two devices. In essence, you have two portable devices with extreme compromises in both ends.
a 500$ tablet, plus its 150$ dock, then a 1000$ laptop, and boom were right in the same price range that i gave you. a 600$ llano laptop will not be top of the line at all for the 35W segment, and 400$ is the starting price for any decent tablet. one that can run win8 and do almost anything a laptop can (poorly) should sell for more than 400$. 1200$ gives you room to put in an SSD and high quality cpus, but still saves your 300-800$

the dock would have an APU and RAM. the screen would only need like 2-4GB of non removable ram, while the dock can have 2 slots and let the user put in whatever they want. were talking about 20$ of replicated parts for the screens pc

who said it had to be an 11" square tablet? why not a 13" 16:9 with 1080p? if your thinking about whats already out there. then you are not thinking about what could be done.

the only thing that actually gets connected across the screen and dock is a monitors connection (hdmi/dvi/dp), the hdd which can run like an esta, and power. why would you waste all the extra effort to make the smaller chip try and use ram form the dock or the docks gpu. the goal is for the smaller chip is to run the most basic tasks. like watching movies and browsing the web and word processing.