Laptops or Tablets Nowadays, people are constantly confronted by new technology, whether it be the next smartphone, new television displays, cars, and so much more. It can be difficult to choose which gadget to purchase. One may wonder whether a laptop or tablet is the better buy. Which one is better? Both can be great and they both have their own respective advantages and disadvantages.
Laptops were designed to be lightweight, compact, and portable computing devices that could provide all the power and functionality of a desktop. If people were looking for a competent computer with similar performance to their desktop, they would look to laptops. They would be able to do research, write papers, create presentations, and do some mild photo …show more content…
They are often used for consuming media, playing light games, and browsing the web, as that is what they are best at. In addition, they go beyond how small laptops are, being even tinier and compact (not needing a keyboard helps that). However, their form factor comes at the cost of less performance. It is not as practical to research, create presentations, or write papers on a tablet. Pointing and clicking with a mouse or trackpad on a laptop is more precise and shortcuts on that keyboard come in handy when doing these tasks while tapping and swiping on a tablet during the same activities can become a chore quite quickly. Additionally, tablets cannot be used for heavy video and/or photo editing. Although their use is more limited, they are also notably less costly. For example, the Google Nexus 9 tablet starts at $429 while the Dell XPS (2015) starts at $1049. The new Apple MacBook starts at $1549 while an iPad Air 2 starts at $549. Tablets are definitely low-priced in comparison to laptops. Furthermore, tablets generally have more straightforward user interfaces. Whether it is an Android, iOS, or Windows tablet, they are generally more intuitive and intelligible with their touch screens and large friendly icons that allow the user to get the grasp of the device effortlessly. Gestures like swiping to another screen are often less ambiguous than having to tap several windows keys. Assuredly, …show more content…
One issue is that they are generally not as powerful as desktop computers. Although laptops are getting more powerful, they generally cannot reach the capability of a desktop without making sacrifices to portability. An example would be the Asus ROG G751JT. It has a quad core Intel i7 4710HQ processor and up to 32GB of RAM, however, it is 3.81kg and 43.2mm thick. Despite its impressive hardware that can be as powerful as a desktop, it is incredibly bulky and massive. When laptops have such large dimensions and heaviness, their movability decreases, which almost defeats the main purpose of a laptop—to be a portable computing device. For tablets, all tablets on the market cannot be compared to high-end desktops such as the Apple Mac Pro that can have up to a clock speed of 3.9GHz, 30MB cache, 12 cores, and 64GB of RAM. Most, if not all laptops cannot be compared to desktops like the Mac Pro either, but tablets are even further from reaching such proficient hardware specifications. It is challenging to pack more dynamic hardware pieces into smaller forms in laptops and tablets without making them gigantic and cumbersome. Thus, CPU intensive activities such as professional video (4K or more) editing and certain games cannot be done or played on laptops and
Laptops were designed to be lightweight, compact, and portable computing devices that could provide all the power and functionality of a desktop. If people were looking for a competent computer with similar performance to their desktop, they would look to laptops. They would be able to do research, write papers, create presentations, and do some mild photo …show more content…
They are often used for consuming media, playing light games, and browsing the web, as that is what they are best at. In addition, they go beyond how small laptops are, being even tinier and compact (not needing a keyboard helps that). However, their form factor comes at the cost of less performance. It is not as practical to research, create presentations, or write papers on a tablet. Pointing and clicking with a mouse or trackpad on a laptop is more precise and shortcuts on that keyboard come in handy when doing these tasks while tapping and swiping on a tablet during the same activities can become a chore quite quickly. Additionally, tablets cannot be used for heavy video and/or photo editing. Although their use is more limited, they are also notably less costly. For example, the Google Nexus 9 tablet starts at $429 while the Dell XPS (2015) starts at $1049. The new Apple MacBook starts at $1549 while an iPad Air 2 starts at $549. Tablets are definitely low-priced in comparison to laptops. Furthermore, tablets generally have more straightforward user interfaces. Whether it is an Android, iOS, or Windows tablet, they are generally more intuitive and intelligible with their touch screens and large friendly icons that allow the user to get the grasp of the device effortlessly. Gestures like swiping to another screen are often less ambiguous than having to tap several windows keys. Assuredly, …show more content…
One issue is that they are generally not as powerful as desktop computers. Although laptops are getting more powerful, they generally cannot reach the capability of a desktop without making sacrifices to portability. An example would be the Asus ROG G751JT. It has a quad core Intel i7 4710HQ processor and up to 32GB of RAM, however, it is 3.81kg and 43.2mm thick. Despite its impressive hardware that can be as powerful as a desktop, it is incredibly bulky and massive. When laptops have such large dimensions and heaviness, their movability decreases, which almost defeats the main purpose of a laptop—to be a portable computing device. For tablets, all tablets on the market cannot be compared to high-end desktops such as the Apple Mac Pro that can have up to a clock speed of 3.9GHz, 30MB cache, 12 cores, and 64GB of RAM. Most, if not all laptops cannot be compared to desktops like the Mac Pro either, but tablets are even further from reaching such proficient hardware specifications. It is challenging to pack more dynamic hardware pieces into smaller forms in laptops and tablets without making them gigantic and cumbersome. Thus, CPU intensive activities such as professional video (4K or more) editing and certain games cannot be done or played on laptops and