What is the best tablet/laptop hybrid for a professor?
Microsoft Surface Pro. Under $1,000, with an Intel Core i5 or i7 processor, runs a full and complete MS Office suite, and accepts input from a pen accurate enough to have good readable handwriting.
What is the difference between laptop, tablet, notebook, and netbook?
Buy a laptop/notebook if you often create content and you need the most power in a portable computer. Buy a netbook if you often create content and are willing to trade-off computing power for the lighter weight (and therefore increased portability) of a netbook. Buy a tablet if you mostly consume content and if you value the browsing, carrying, and holding convenience of the tablet form with touchscreen over a laptop/notebook or netbook OR are willing to augment the tablet with a keyboard (thereby making it more like a netbook). Buy a hybrid such as a ASUS Eee Transformer (TF101) if you wish to combine the advantages of a netbook and tablet, albeit while paying a bit of a price premium over netbooks and a slight performance penality compared with laptops. (For writing and web browsing, Transformer performance is more than adequate, though.) Also, compared with other tablets, the TF101 provides great hardware value.
Tablets vs. netbooks vs. laptops: which is best?
From a blog post I wrote in October of last year:http://bussefn.tumblr.com/post/1...5 reasons why I traded in my iPad for a 11.6" MacBoox Air1. Keyboard. The iPad keyboard is very, very goodfor a touchscreen keyboard. I still can’t type as fast or as well withit as I can with a normal full-size keyboard.2. PowerPoint. I need it for my job. The iPad hasan optional VGA output dongle, but I got very mixed results with it. Infairness, I don’t have the Keynote app. Really though, I need to createand edit PowerPoints; much easier done on a real computer.3. Photos, from camera. I really want my portablecomputing device to be the same device from which I can download photosfrom my camera, crop & adjust them, and upload them to Flickr,Facebook, etc. The iPad doesn’t do this.4.Multitasking. Really. 50% of the time when I write an email I need to look at my calendar or copy & paste a long URL. Simple as that.5. True mobile productivity. What I mean by that isthat I normally use desktops with large and/or multiple monitors. Ilike having a 10-key pad on my keyboard for crunching numbers. Iusually use Macs but I run Windows via Parallels on them for .NET &SQL work. I was using a 17” notebook PC as my portable device and Itried to replace that with the iPad. I found myself still using thenotebook for PowerPoints and overnight travel. I hate lugging thatbeast around. I’ve made a decision not to install Parallels on the Air,and it doesn’t have a 10-key, but it lets me be mobile and still betruly productive.TL;DR: The iPad is about consumption, a real computer is about creation. The iPad is not a real computer.
Looking for a Hybrid Laptop that can play Video Games?
I want a 2 in 1 laptop (laptop + tablet) that can play video games on maybe normal settings (games that aren't too demanding like league of legends) I want it so i can take notes in class, read books, and turn it into a laptop to play league of legends and hearthstone.
What is a good netbook/ultrabook/tablet for a professional writer/journalist who just needs to be able to comfortably manage text documents on the go?
I would suggest to go with Microsoft Surface Pro or Macbook Air. Both are light weight, battery will be fantastic and will be good for your required work. Both are strong build and will not be any problem while travels. Another contender can be Chromebook but I personally do not like chromebooks due to the limitation of using only Google system, if you need dropbox, microsoft office or some of of the other specific softwares. But yeah I personally do not like chromebooks but that can also be contender if you are fine with Google Docs and Google Drive etc.
What's a good 7"-8" screen laptop/netbook I can buy?
Nobody makes tiny laptops any more. Certainly nothing that will fit in a pocket. Not even the original 7" EEE PC would fit in a pocket, the Vaio P was a unique form factor with a very wide display - most laptop displays are 16:9, theirs was 16:7.6. This is why it was narrow and could fit in a pocket.It was by far the most powerful of all of the MIDs available. There were other models with very slow Atom chips, or even Celerons running at speeds <1Ghz.There are a couple phones that run Windows (No, I'm not kidding). Like this:http://www.fujitsu.com/global/ne...1.2Ghz Atom, probably only a couple hours of battery life... it's probably useless for you.IMO, you need to adjust your expectations, or find a used Vaio P.
Hmmmm, iPad? or laptop?
Laptop. The iPad is extremely limited to use... it's basically like a huge iPod Touch. It costs more than a netbook but has a slower processor, doesn't allow multitasking, doesn't use a real operating system where you can install any program you wish and doesn't have any SD card slots or USB ports. A summary of the iPad: -It doesn't have an SD card slot or USB slot. You want to load all your photos on it? You need to buy a special dongle and attach it to the iPad. Ah yes, that's convenient and cost-effective. -You need to lay it flat and look straight down at it to type on it. It's not like a netbook or laptop where the keyboard is flat and the screen is in front of your face. -You can buy a keyboard accessory -- you can spend extra money to turn a low-power netbook-type tablet into a non-portable desktop computer. Meanwhile there are products like Lenovo U1 Hybrid where you can slip the tablet into a netbook shell and turn it into a portable, foldable laptop. -Apple wants to say it will be great for reading books and magazines, but it has a bright, glossy LCD screen. Meanwhile, electronic book reader devices use an electronic ink technology that doesn't strain the eyes and can be used in the sun. -You cannot multitask. You can only do one task at a time. If you want to surf the web and type into a document, you can't. You need to exit one and then open the other. -No flash support. Enjoy the web without much of its content! -It costs $500, minimum, and has a 1 ghz processor. You're paying $500 for something that has about the same capabilities as an iPod Touch, but is huge. Products with similar specs and abilities as the iPad cost less than that. If you want the model with enough disk space and 3G to make it worth your while, it's $800. My netbook has a 1.6 ghz Atom processor and cost me $200. And my netbook has an SD slot so I can make the hard drive space as large as I want. And my netbook has USB ports. And I can do multiple tasks on my netbook. Fact is, tablets have been around forever and the mainstream market didn't want them. Just because they've slapped an Apple logo on it, should people suddenly want it?
Will tablets and smartphones eventually replace laptops and desktops?
I keep reading these predictions by "tech gurus" on the internet. They say Windows 10 is nonsense. They say the future belongs to Apple and Google. They say laptops are "yesterday's" technology, lots of people are doing away with conventional computers, and going "tablet-only" for their needs, tablet sales are steadily rising, and laptop sales are declining. I for one hate these tablets. Even for basic tasks as watching YouTube, I always use my laptop if possible. And I can't imagine real work being done on a tablet with underpowered ARM CPUs and touch screens. But of course, I'm not a "tech guru", just an ordinary user. Is this true? Will tablets eventually replace conventional computers altogether? I would HATE to have to use a tablet, for anything. I find conventional desktops and laptops way better, even for simple tasks like YouTube and Facebook, and watching movies! :(