<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Hi Tom, </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">
I have to agree with some of your comments regarding the language of marketing</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><i>"<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Did they really need to force the terminology to come up with</span></i><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><i>"Officeable" and "Entertainmentable"? Sounds torture</i>d.</span><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:13px;display:inline">
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Also I am not totally clear why they targeted gaming stations, instead of simply </div></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;display:inline">
<br></div></span></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">transport-ability from home and work</div><div class="gmail_default" style><font face="verdana, sans-serif">interchange between desktop and laptop </font><br>
<ul><li><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Imagine buying $500 desktop and $500 laptop, $1000 combined</font></li><li><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Instead, with Tango 1 home dock $100, 1 laptop dock $200 , 1 Tango PC $300</font></li>
<ul><li><font face="verdana, sans-serif">$700 Combined cost, $300 immediate savings compared to above</font></li><li><font face="verdana, sans-serif">next gen upgrade only the Tango PC upgrade for $300, instead of buying new laptops and desktops another $1000</font></li>
</ul><li><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Or one docking station at home but one Tango for each kid, instead of individual PC for each</span><br></li></ul></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">
<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">I have a feeling they combined the RAM, CPU, SSD into the same box also for consolidating the most expensive parts but, also the ones that will benefit in SPEED being combined efficiently in one box, plus having these expensive components "following you"</div>
<br></div><div><i><font size="1"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;display:inline"></div></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Functionality-wise they could have made the "CPU box" serve the same</span></font></i></div>
<i><font size="1"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">purpose of transporting your environment by reducing it down to just the</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">SSD. That way it would be much smaller, and cheaper, when you inevitably</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">loose it/drop it in a pool. Presumably they pushed the CPU and RAM into</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">that box because those are some of the most expensive components, so it</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">reduces overall system cost. There is no other good reason. The "CPU</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">box" isn't usable for anything independent of the docking station. It's</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">not like a laptop or smartphone + dock, where the device is usable when</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">away from the dock.</span></font></i><div>
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</div><br></span></i></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">I can imagine in the future the upgrades of SSD would not be that important as more DATA goes to the cloud..</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">
<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Overall speaking, I do not totally understand their marketing message and strategy. But I can see the benefits of their hardware design/technology given the common scenarios I speak of above..</div>
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