That 2016 tablet promise of 'desktop power' finally hit me at 60 fps

I keep going back and forth on whether the whole 'tablet will replace your laptop' thing from that 2016 Samsung Galaxy TabPro S keynote was actually wrong or just early. On one hand, I got a used one for $180 last year and it chokes on a single Chrome tab with 40 open, which feels like a classic bad prediction. On the other hand, the new iPad Pro with the M4 chip in Austin hit 60 fps on a 4K timeline, which honestly makes that old claim look not crazy. Is the miss just a matter of waiting 8 years, or was the whole premise flawed from day one, and where do you draw that line?

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maryadams12d agoTop Commenter

The whole tech industry runs on this loop of overpromising and then quietly catching up years later, like foldable phones or the smart home stuff. My fridge has more computing power than that old Samsung did, but it still took a decade for the software and hardware to actually mesh in a way that feels natural. That line moves every time a new chip drops, so maybe the real flaw was expecting the promise to hold still while everything around it kept changing.