Netbook or Tablet?


Lilliputian laptop or gigantic touchscreen?

Desktop OS or Touch-panel OS?

Windows or Ubuntu or Android or iOS?

WHAT'S YOUR SAY?

The tablet (or slate or touchscreen) PC, also known as a mobile Internet device (MID), is a computer which has functions that enable users to consume media content. The Apple iPad, Samsung Galaxy Tab, and many other devices out there sport all screen, without the keyboard or mouse, and a few ports for accesories. Its interface is touch-based, which can make reading e-books, playing games, watching videos or Internet surfing easy, although typing or spreadsheet creation will be quite cumbersome. Tablets are more of content consumption.

The netbook (or sub-notebook or mini-laptop) is a smaller, more lightweight version of the traditional laptop. It features the same features of a usual laptop or desktop - keyboard, touchpad (for a mouse), screen, and a decent amount of ports for peripherals - USB ports, a D-Sub VGA port or HDMI port, an Ethernet port, and A/V ports for speakers or a headset, and a microphone. Its interface is the same as what you usually do on a normal desktop or laptop computer - sporting mainstream desktop operating systems such as Windows or Linux distro such as Ubuntu and Mandriva. Therefore it can do your usual programs: word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, media playing, and Internet surfing. Some netbooks are even capable to do light media creation such as photo editing, audio recording and light video editing, and even programming and application development.  Netbooks, therefore, are more of content creation.

Of course, these two devices are proofs that everything you do on a computer today is in the clouds - or simply put - cloud computing. All you do goes to the Internet. All you get is from the Internet. All you make gets into the Internet. And that has been the beauty of it.

The problem now goes to what the customer wants to prefer - something that does casual things or something that does serious tasks.

NOW, WHAT DO YOU WANT TO CHOOSE?


KENNETH

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