Should I buy an android tablet or a netbook
If your old computer is ready to sale or tossed, and you want to get a new one, you are lucky now as you have various types of devices to choose, and they are all capable if you just sending e-mail, watch movies or writing, personal computer is not the only choice.
Apart from smartphones, you have three major choices to consider: all-in-one PC, netbook and tablet PC.
Netbook is usually based on Windows or Linux system, with 10 inch or smaller screen. When android tablet came out, netbook's sales dropped dramatically at the beginning of 2010. But still, it's cheaper and lighter, for some people it's a good choice considering what it is used for.
While you are trying to figure out which one to buy, consider this: price and actual functions that you need.
Do I need a lightweight device while you are always on the road? Or I don't travel that much, I don't
You may also ask yourself a few questions:
How much do I want to spend on it?
This is not an easy question as you may have different price expectations for different types of device(Wholesale Electronics). Even in one type of device, for example tablets, there comes iPad and android tablets, and you could find a much cheaper netbook compare to iPad, $300 is a proper price, but laptops, you may spend $500 on a good but bulky laptop.
Do I travel a lot? If so, do I watch movies while I'm on the way?
If it is, iPad and android tablets are your ideal choice, long hours with bright screen, plus it is not heavy. Of course, you won't be able to insert a DVD disc as it doesn't have DVD drive.
A netbook's battery usually last longer than laptops, so in this section netbook comes the second.
Do I need to run Windows applications?
There's no comparison that laptops can run any windows applications (unless it's macbook), netbook can do most of work applications, but if there's a high standard CPU and graphics needed, it might not be capable of doing it. For example, when you playing games or run Photoshop. Android tablets won't be able to do most of this.
Do I need to office applications?
You need laptops or netbook to run office applications, but don't be so fast to make decisions that android tablets cannot do this, although it takes more time to type.
Which one has less weight?
Maybe I don't want to carry heavy things or maybe my back hurts or maybe I just want to have something handy and portable, if you are considering this, then tablets is the best choice, it's less than 2 pound, a typical netbook weight around 3 pound. Unless you wish to pay a lot of money to buy an expense one (Macbook Air), you will feel you are carrying a bag of bricks.
Which one is suitable to write something?
It depends on what you are writing. If you are only writing short e-mail or article, all these three devices will satisfy your needs. However, if you write something more, for sure need a full size keyboard-this means you can only choose laptops and some of netbooks.
Netbooks has lots of public secrets, shrink keyboard is one of them, and most of netbooks are likely to have this shrink keyboard. Which means, some function buttons and navigation buttons are at the place where they were not supposed to be, or even they don't have them at all. So before you buy a netbook, make sure your fingers fix it.
How about android tablet? Is virtual keyboard working well? That depends on who use it, but if you are typing faster and more accurate, it might not suit you, so again, try it before you buy it.
Do I want to play more games?
Games nowadays getting more complicated than before, many of them require pretty high performance CPU, hard drive and so on, sometimes even laptops cannot play games well, netbook? You can forget netbook in this section. Even though android tablet is pretty same as netbook, but it does has some games specially design for tablet, it's pretty fun, but not comprehensive games.
Apart from smartphones, you have three major choices to consider: all-in-one PC, netbook and tablet PC.
Netbook is usually based on Windows or Linux system, with 10 inch or smaller screen. When android tablet came out, netbook's sales dropped dramatically at the beginning of 2010. But still, it's cheaper and lighter, for some people it's a good choice considering what it is used for.
While you are trying to figure out which one to buy, consider this: price and actual functions that you need.
Do I need a lightweight device while you are always on the road? Or I don't travel that much, I don't
You may also ask yourself a few questions:
How much do I want to spend on it?
This is not an easy question as you may have different price expectations for different types of device(Wholesale Electronics). Even in one type of device, for example tablets, there comes iPad and android tablets, and you could find a much cheaper netbook compare to iPad, $300 is a proper price, but laptops, you may spend $500 on a good but bulky laptop.
Do I travel a lot? If so, do I watch movies while I'm on the way?
If it is, iPad and android tablets are your ideal choice, long hours with bright screen, plus it is not heavy. Of course, you won't be able to insert a DVD disc as it doesn't have DVD drive.
A netbook's battery usually last longer than laptops, so in this section netbook comes the second.
Do I need to run Windows applications?
There's no comparison that laptops can run any windows applications (unless it's macbook), netbook can do most of work applications, but if there's a high standard CPU and graphics needed, it might not be capable of doing it. For example, when you playing games or run Photoshop. Android tablets won't be able to do most of this.
Do I need to office applications?
You need laptops or netbook to run office applications, but don't be so fast to make decisions that android tablets cannot do this, although it takes more time to type.
Which one has less weight?
Maybe I don't want to carry heavy things or maybe my back hurts or maybe I just want to have something handy and portable, if you are considering this, then tablets is the best choice, it's less than 2 pound, a typical netbook weight around 3 pound. Unless you wish to pay a lot of money to buy an expense one (Macbook Air), you will feel you are carrying a bag of bricks.
Which one is suitable to write something?
It depends on what you are writing. If you are only writing short e-mail or article, all these three devices will satisfy your needs. However, if you write something more, for sure need a full size keyboard-this means you can only choose laptops and some of netbooks.
Netbooks has lots of public secrets, shrink keyboard is one of them, and most of netbooks are likely to have this shrink keyboard. Which means, some function buttons and navigation buttons are at the place where they were not supposed to be, or even they don't have them at all. So before you buy a netbook, make sure your fingers fix it.
How about android tablet? Is virtual keyboard working well? That depends on who use it, but if you are typing faster and more accurate, it might not suit you, so again, try it before you buy it.
Do I want to play more games?
Games nowadays getting more complicated than before, many of them require pretty high performance CPU, hard drive and so on, sometimes even laptops cannot play games well, netbook? You can forget netbook in this section. Even though android tablet is pretty same as netbook, but it does has some games specially design for tablet, it's pretty fun, but not comprehensive games.
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