I am not sure where I land on this issue, I am not entirely sold that it should have been filled to the brim and packed tightly but it does seem like they could have done better either for repairability or at least having things like a headphone jack and maybe better speakers (I have read that speakers can do better with more hollow space without adding much weight but I’m not knowledgeable enough)
The comments have a lot of good viewpoints
No memory expansion = no sale. Clearly they had room for a MicroSD slot.
Kind of annoying, they could have used that space for a bigger battery, bigger heatsink, memory card reader, more ports, etc.
That would of course raise the cost though
Yes, but at $500 the profit margins are still huge. This is like a $200 tablet being sold for $500. It probably costs $50 to manufacture.
how did you reach those numbers?
You and me both pixel tablet…
I have never seen a mobile device with this much free space inside.
Inspired by the AlphaSmart.
For what it did, the AS3000 was absolutely OK. I’ve seen people looking perplexed when I used this thing for note-taking. Switch on, type, switch off. And absolutely lightweight.
Well, that would explain why my device feels so cool to the touch all the time (aside from the corner where the SoC is
Have you seen the surface book? It could have twice the battery capacity if they just put more batteries into all the empty space.
I don’t really see this as a bad thing, sooner or later someone’s going to come up with a battery mod for these that doubles or triples run time and I’m here for it.
Edit: Re: tablet design- your can’t really make the device super skinny or they get hard to hold so the extra space in the housing might just be designed in so the tablet is easier to handle. My eink tablet is super thin and pretty easy to drop, I don’t have that issue with my larger/thicker Samsung tablet.
