Sub Forum just for tablets?

[Keysplayr]

Noticed there isn't one, and tablets are and have been booming. Might be nice to have a sub forum just for them.

 

[Newbian]

We already do:

http://forums.anandtech.com/forumdisplay.php?f=37

 

[wirednuts]

We already do:

http://forums.anandtech.com/forumdisplay.php?f=37

thats for more then tablets

 

[Newbian]

thats for more then tablets

And?

They cover more then one item like that and it works.

 

[wirednuts]

and the op asked if there could be a sub forum for just tablets.

 

[Newbian]

I know but this type of request gets asked multiple times for everything and generally there is no reason to make a ton of extra sub-forums for them.

 

[wirednuts]

thats a much better answer 😛

 

[ViRGE]

I'm not going to say no, but we'd need a good reason. As it stands the Mobile Devices forum has just the right amount of traffic, and there's enough overlap between phones and tablets (in terms of SoCs and OSes) that there's a compelling reason to keep them together.

 

[shortylickens]

NO!

We need to COMBINE all these extraneous forums.

 

[wirednuts]

I'm not going to say no, but we'd need a good reason. As it stands the Mobile Devices forum has just the right amount of traffic, and there's enough overlap between phones and tablets (in terms of SoCs and OSes) that there's a compelling reason to keep them together.

i agree.. the technology is shifting... it wont be long before most of our phones, tablets, htpc's and even desktops all use the same exact hardware and software, just in different forms.

 

[gorcorps]

I'm all with keeping them as they are. It's already bad enough that MDG pretty much just has non-apple stuff because all the apple people take news to the All Things Apple section... which also makes no sense because that's in the SOFTWARE section.

 

[Puppies04]

i agree.. the technology is shifting... it wont be long before most of our phones, tablets, htpc's and even desktops all use the same exact hardware and software, just in different forms.

I can't wait for my HTC ultraphone with a GTX990 and a 5750K in it, I wonder if there will be much overclocking headroom....

 

[Lifted]

I know everyone thinks bad idea for new forums, but tablets are becoming a gamechanger for the computing space. I was just bouncing between Mobile Devices and Gadgets and SFF, Notebooks, Pre-Built/Barebones PCs, and can't figure out which forum my question really belongs in and would have the best option of being answered. There are tons of tablet threads in each.

With Surface coming out soon, along with tons of other Win8 tablets, there will be both x86 and Arm models... which sub form then? The x86 model is basically a notebook w/ touchscreen. Considering it likely won't be long before tablets are outselling laptops and desktops combined, I personally think the sooner there's a dedicated sub form for discussion of these devices, the less we'll end up with topics split between Mobile, SFF, and General.