Tablets are easy-to-hold screens that let you read and watch media or search the Web.

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If they want to focus on boosting the case for Surface and for OEM-built Win 8 tablets, they will hold back.

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Before tablets and Ultrabooks took hold, many PC vendors were engaged in a race to the bottom where competition was only possible through ever cheaper parts, not breakthrough design.

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Seagate created this new category of wireless storage devices in 2011 to address consumers' desire to enjoy more content than tablets and smartphones can hold with their limited storage.

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