Tablet VS Laptop : Both are cool stuff

Tablet VS Laptop - Currently tablet has dominated the portable computer market, even beating the first netbook available. Now many people wonder whether the tablet is good enough to replace the laptop completely.

The answer is simple: as possible. It really depends on your computing needs. Here are some tips for you, about what you should consider before deciding to buy a tablet or laptop.




The Pros and Cons of Tablet

Led by the iPad 2, the tablet is ideal for consuming content. Tablet is a device suitable for web surfing, e-mail and had been reading up, play games, read digital magazines and books, and enjoy movies and music.

This device can turn on instantly and tend to live longer than a notebook. Tablet of the best models offer 8 hours or longer of use. Excellence also extends to the tablet battery standby time.

The most popular tablet size is 9 to 10 inches, which is similar to the dimensions for the magazine. But you will also find a lot of tablet with a 7 or 8 inches. This model is more portable and can more easily fit in your purse or jacket pocket.

IPad and competitors of the same size tend to weigh 725 grams or less, whereas for 7 and 8 inch models weigh less than half a kilogram. Regardless of size, the tablet is lighter and easier to carry than a laptop.

For productivity, the more versatile as a tablet-friendly application for business development. There are versatile for iPad iWork suite, as well as third-party applications that could be an option as Documents to Go and Quickoffice. A similar option is available for Android tablet.

Thanks to cloud-based services such as Dropbox and iCloud, the storage capacity on the tablet is too limited to be no problem, although the tablet is not very useful without internet connectivity.

Some tablets are designed well enough to replace the notebook. ASUS Eee Pad Slider has a slide-out keyboard, while the Lenovo ThinkPad Tablet lets you take notes with a pen on the screen and comes with an optional keyboard. But on the laptop keyboard is larger and more comfortable, and the notebook is better in some ways like word processing and video editing.

The Pros and Cons of Laptops


If you want to buy a portable computer for actual work, the laptop is your best choice because they offer better text input. Laptop also offers the convenience of watching the better, because they feature a larger screen and sharp. For example, the average notebook has a resolution of 1366 x 768 pixels, larger than the iPad screen only 1024 x 768 pixels.

You also should not ignore the fact that the notebook is also easier for multitasking. This is because you can more quickly switch between applications and see all the applications open at once. Taskbar in Windows and on Mac OS X Dock makes it easy to switch between programs.

In terms of weight, the weight of the tablet notebook more. But the clamshell design makes them have a lot of equipment. Another forte of the laptop in tablet appeal is the software. Yes, the tablet does offer access to many applications, but many laptops have a more productive program forward.

Microsoft Office Starter Edition installed on many notebooks. Then there are free applications like OpenOffice and Paint.NET for photo editing. And do not forget to desktop applications such as Photoshop, which you will not find on a tablet.