For my money I want a tablet that can game out to tv adequately or I'll put off the purchase until it can. But shield may have ended my tablet quest...LOL. If you bring my PC's gpu to the tv, for me consoles are over and maybe tablet too. I really only bought a console for friends etc and sports games (my 360 isn't used much, haven't turned it on in 6 months or more). I like my dad's nexus 10 but for his & your purposes only as it's too weak to game at 2560x1600. Although I spent a fair amount of time browsing on his nexus 10 also when I was first playing with it and surprisingly I watched (and enjoyed) an entire netflix movie or two just to be sure it did the job, I wouldn't really use it for much. It's a handy portable movie player though (bought the micro hdmi for it to output to tv for dad). My dad uses the tablet to extend his PC time (without the fat foot it gives him as a stroke victim) which the nexus is great for. He also watches the occasional movie etc with headphones while mom passes out. He can watch stuff all night without ticking off mom.
I totally agree with the fingers, I don't like touching the screens (hate fingerprints), but I wanted the tablet to get gaming on the go and mostly via gamepad once it becomes a better gaming platform (hence waiting for a T4 nexus 10 or whatever, I won't buy apple). I'm not sure how easy it will be to browse on shield & tv (but it's vanilla android so should have voice). But it might be good enough to just read news etc from bed. If shield has voice searching like nexus it may be good enough for basic browsing from bed etc on tv. They may have just added a device to my xmas purchases this year with shield rather than replacing the tablet purchase. I can still see wanting (not needing) a tablet for on the go use etc. I can't see doing much of anything on a phone other than making a call...LOL. I use my cell less than 100mins per month (more like less than 50). They're useless for me and only use them to make quick arrangements/adjustments to my day (hey babe, you need me to pick up bread on the way home...blah blah). My cell is off at work and I don't even give out my work# (only my parents have it direct). Maybe I'm just old fashioned. I actually WORK at work...
Maybe I just don't like giving ATT a $100 per month. I see Ting in my future, but others would never get my money with the billing they currently have (forcing certain plans etc even if I don't use X feature, have no use for texting etc).
Not sure what people were ripping with, but I didn't see the quality in quicksync rips when I looked at them and compared to other stuff I had ripped via other means. For me quality is always #1 since I'm usually viewing on a 61in and bad quality shows up (next tv or projector? will be larger, so it'll be even more important). I get away with a lot more on my 48in, but the 61 taught me not to ignore quality for speed
I'm still waiting to upgrade my cpu so quicksync is not an issue I deal with yet. I just saw some friends rips and didn't think much of quicksync at the time (it's fast, for sure). They are religious updaters though, so I'd think they were using the best they could at the time. They don't complain but they all have 48in or smaller. One more Intel comment, I don't consider it a tablet until it looks like a nexus10. It's a netbook/notebook/ultrabook (uselessly expensive to me) when it looks like a thinkpad X230 etc. These are not in the same league as a nexus 10. To me the first three are all laptops of some variation so Intel isn't there with a tablet yet and IVY. I don't think Haswell will be either. They need 14nm to get these into a tablet like nexus (broadwell etc). To me if it has a keyboard it's not a tablet
If I'm going to spend $1000+ on an ultrabook, I'll nix it and buy a stonking gpu notebook that can play some real games out to a monitor when desired. I'm not a road warrior so ultra has no place for me (sales show it has no place for 98% of us, sales of ultra's suck). Also I'd never rip on a tablet/notebook etc with a PC in the other room.
Totally agree, I want MORE BATTERY! Quit making things so stinking thin. I have no use for a NON-all day phone (if/when I replace my junker). I wish they'd release 2 case sizes. One for people who think THIN is in, and another with double battery for the rest of us. I think people all buy these because there is no other choice. If Galaxy S3 & iphone5 came in 2 versions, I'm betting the THICK ones would sell far better. Someone needs to test this theory and release a fat version. They wouldn't have to add many mm to the phone to get double battery if it was the size of the entire back of the case.