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i plan to buy windows based tablet. trying to experiment in doing programming. :)

I still go for laptop, I don’t think it can be replaced by tablet pc in terms of usability. May I add that tablet pc now has a dual core on it. Check this link Ipad China Dual Core

Tama yung sinabi ni steve jobs, ang netbook mabagal. It’s better to have a tablet para mabilis ang browsing. But i prefer to get an android tablet instead of an apple ipad 2nd generation. You can use your usb modem, external hard drive for the next version on android. hdmi output, can play hd videos, games, and meron flash 10.1 na wala sa iPad na sobrang smooth. Portability wise mas ok ang tablet. Ang netbook mabagal, mabigat at mabilis pa maubos ang battery at matagal pa magboot.

Pero it’s still a matter of your usage. But i go with a tablet now since i have a netbook.

let see..hmmm…

can i edit photo/movie using Photoshop/Corel with my not so powerfull netbook,,,probably…but no…

can i develop games, creates website with my netbook..probably..but no…screen to small…

can i play hi-def games on netbook….no

why do i use my netbook? internet, browsing, probably PvZ, as MP3 player, sometime portable movie player…well, the tablet (with newer chipset and processor) can do that…and the tablet is less bulky…

battery issues i guess are the same over netbooks and tablets….

a tablet for reading, especially if its way lower than kindle. it’s lighter and more portable than my laptop.

have to agree with ETHAN, i think a fusion will happen between notebooks and netbooks.

tablets are different device altogether and i could relate this more to my smartphone than with my laptop/notebook. can’t do all of the things with my ipad that i can do with my notebook or with my netbook.

i think a slow demise of the desktop is more probable and a fusion between netbooks and notebooks.

i use my laptop at work/home and my netbook when i travel. my ipad, i use mostly for fun and slice fruits =)

correction..

1. A Netbook less than 11 inches (ION or AMD Fusion)
2. A Smartphone greater than 3 inches (pref. Android)
3. And a PSP! (or PSP2 coming this year.. i hope. =)

(now im a typo freak. hehe sorry for multi-posts =)

it DEPENDS.

but I prefer to have this 3 devices based on my CAREER, PREFERENCES and my NEEDS.

1. A Netbook 3 inches (pref. Android)
3. And a PSP! (or PSP2 coming this year.. i hope. =)

I wish I have one, so that I can see the difference between netbook and tablet. http://learner-spot.blogspot.com/

ipad is purely for entertainment.

powerful notebooks are for programmers/heavy graphics users.

netbooks are for business travelers like me, mix of office and entertainment.

real tablet pcs are similar to note/net books, but with just a rotating monitor touch screen aspect (think lenovo s10 3 vs s10 3t).

Its like comparing a microwave oven and an oven toaster. Mas bago yung isa pero they have thier own use and functions

I go for OLD SCHOOl laptops.

The tablet and the netbook/laptop serve different markets. They may overlap on some uses or functionality, but then they still serve different uses.

That is why you see netbook-tablet hybrids being made since they understand the difference between the too.

I have owned two netbooks (a Lenovo in 2008 and a Asus in 2009) and a 14-inch HP laptop. One for portability the other for serious work. With the price of ultraportables going down, the pair has been replaced by a light 13-inch laptop… big enough for work, but at less than 3 pounds, light enough to drag around the whole day.

So neither for me. Smartphone plus ultraportable laptop best fit my needs. I got my wife a tablet though, and she loves it. It really is more a entertainment device. Serious work she does on her laptop.

Tablet ako yung Android 3.0 para makapag-flash games …

I agree with the guy who said that tablets are for consumption while notebooks are for productivity…

That’s exactly my view. If all i wanted to do is browse and play casual games, then I’d bring the tablet along. But if I expected to do some work, edit my photography, play more than the casual games along with my browsing and e-comic book reading, then I bring along my laptop.

But I’m not into netbooks, because even if yes they are much more powerful now with the new chipsets (Fusion, Tegra), there will always be a more powerful actual notebook out there (i5, i7). And if you need to use photoshop or edit video, you need all the muscle you can get.

The masses may not need all that power, but there are many professionals that do.. so they may be popular in the future, but it’s not the absolute future of computing. (Can you imagine doing detail brushwork on a tablet? Even doing a term paper?, Doesn’t work so well in that scenario..)

@Eason
considering the phase that technology changes constantly I’m tablets will have longer battery life, but the transition thing is kind of a bit harder thing to do.

@manaka_junpei
no need to worry, most tablets now are all fired up with google android – free.

If tablets can have around 8-10 hours battery life, then I will change. But my eyes is curently in the EEE Transformer since it can have a docking station. So its a good start for the transition of switching to tablet.

+1 to Ethan’s argument. Sapul na sapul. :D

maybe a WINDOWS/MAC tablet with full-size USB port and a minimum of 64gb flash drive would do.

The thing with tablets is that the technology they pack today doesn’t allow for all that much productivity. That’s the main factor that sets netbooks & laptops apart from tablet computers. Tablets are all about media consumption; portable computers are for productivity.

But with the way technology is advancing, I foresee the introduction of a single all-in-one device that can handle EVERYTHING. Look at the Motorala Atrix and you’ll understand what I’m talking about.

I will surely get the next generation Apple iPad.

i’ve traded in my notebook for netbook a couple of years ago, and i haven’t really looked back since. i still have a nice desktop set-up at home, but my netbook is pretty handy when i need to be mobile. it can most of what i need. i don’t really need a dvd-rom anyway since i stream most of what i watch online, and my netbook has been up to the task so far.

i’m looking forward to the new asus tablets — i saw one set that yuga featured which pretty much ran win7. hopefully i can get to see how the thing runs once it gets here Q2/Q3 of this year.

if a tablet can do the things that i need to do on my netbook, then i’d gladly make the move. for now, i’m sticky with my joybook ^^

i still prepare notebook.. because its an all in one device (keyboard/disk drive/programs/etc) and i can multitask easily in a notebook.. but i think tablet is good and needs more upgrade before changing to tablet..

but it depends on a persons need :D

tablets being used by pro photographers to review their shots, netbooks used by students to easily chat..err create term papers. I guess it depends on the target market :D As for me, why not have both? Just kidding! I’ll go for a tablet because it’s easy to use anywhere compared to a netbook where you need a surface to type properly

if tablets would be able to support Photoshop and Illustrator..why not poknat?
hahahaha..

the Tablet’s market is specially for those who already have a laptop and a smartphone, and looking for something in between mostly for media consumption.

i like the iPad and the Acer tablet.

Thanks to the Ipad I can now read my eComics and Magazines with ease. Can’t imagine reading magazines and comis on a NetBook or a laptop for 2 hours straight.

I find that tablets are only fun when surfing the net and watching videos. But for, say, writing and creating documents, I’d still prefer using the real keyboard on my notebook.

I’ll go for tablet. I already have a PC & a laptop, which can do almost what I wanted to work on with. But with a tablet, I can be “on-the-go”, rather than having a netbook. Development of ultra-powered tablets are now on progress…

It would not be long before tablets get netbook or notebook hardware specs. When that happens netbooks would be history and tablets become standard. Asus is coming up with a sliding keyboard for their tablet, that is very innovative. As the time comes that you can slide the keyboard to access or hide it, then the possibility of tilting the screen to a comfortable angle when you need to type, coupled with a powerful processor, lots of ram, lots of disk space, powerful graphics processor, slim design. Wow!

Tablets will probably catch up with the kind of numbers that netbooks have been sold in the last couple of years but I doubt whether netbooks will go away. It is still far cheaper than a tablet. Same with Smartphones….it’s the one phone that people have been raving about (in tech blogs, forums etc.) for years, but it will not replace “dumb” phones. Locally, Myphone recently announced that they sold 400,000 units in the last quarter of 2010. How many smartphones were sold in the same period? Probably less than 10,000.
Cheap, “dumb” phones(Php6,000 and below) but it still serves to remind us that for the vast majority of phone users, a smartphone is something that they don’t really care about.

One exception: India has a USD35.00 Android tablet in the works. If this is released to market, it may alter the equation and may bury the netbook category.

Yes I’m ready but my budget is not. Haha.

right, its a personal preference depending on your computer needs, ah wait, what does my computer need? power, space, right temperature, so this is how someone decides to choose a tablet, notebook or netbook…

I think the tablet like Apple’s has great potential to spplant the net book. It can do almost everything a net book can do in a much portable and coolnes factor.

I think tablets are better suited for not-so techy people. Those who loves browsing the net, updating social networking status and posts for their personal blog. netbooks on the other hand are for people who does way beyond the normal use in which they do programming, hobby projects and light to mid gaming. As for me I’m still not comfortable using the touchscreen as a keyboard as if there’s missing when you’re touch typing.

When the Ipad came out, I, for the first time, was not too excited about it. The durability is something I still not comfortable with. And lastly, if one is used to the “carry-all, full packed capacity” of netbooks, its hard to switch, unless you have that “keeping up with the Jones'” hang-up. It may take a while for these tablets offer a unique, Xfactor, to make one swiftly switch to these oversized screen gadgets.

@futurology

What Ethan said. I don’t think netbooks and laptops are that far apart in performance anymore. AMD Fusion and Intel ultraportables offer laptop performance at netbook sizes; it just so happens that some of today’s notebooks also offer desktop performance at laptop sizes. :D

I just choose to distinguish them to differentiate between their sizes, since when most people say laptop they usually mean 13-inches and larger, and netbook as 12-inches and smaller. But for the most part their form factor and function are the same.

it all depends on your needs.
I was actually wondering what to get on my next purchase, netbook or tablet.
it really depends on what you need.
I just wanted to check the net for news, updates and be to upload pictures right away which the ipad can do and netbook too. but for entertainment features i think the ipad can do more.

I think as I already have notebook and ipod touch.. i think my target this year is a tablet… will wait for the version 3.0..

dati na naman me tablet ang ginawa lang ng Apple eh pinanipis, pinaganda, at ginawan ng capacitive touch display, the rest is katulad na nang anumang nagagawa ng dati. kakatuwa ngang isipin na sa karamihan eh parang bago ang tablet kasi di pa nakakakita o nakaka experience na gumamit. ganun pa man, ang notebook eh notebook, ang tablet eh tablet, kung ang tablet ang papalit sa notebook o netbook, sana huminto na nang paggawa ang Apple ng notebook. virtual keyboard, maari ngang mawala yung physical keyborad pero for now, pati OS development at application eh gawa pa rin using keyboard, hehehe,

i think tablets are the future technology in evolution. we just need lot more powerful processor with virtually no thermal radiation, most efficient OS and voice to text application 10 hour battery life minimum.

wala ako netbook, kaya pag available na ang 2 core tablet, bibili na me.

I still prefer notebooks :|

I think tablets have a closer nature to the mp3 player than with laptops/netbooks and smartphones.

That is, laptops and smartphones are essential for many people, it’s needed for their work or education.

mp3 players and now tablets aren’t, their functions can be easily substituted by your smartphone or laptop/netbook respectively. Since they are not essential, mp3 players and tablets are more like luxury items, and they should not be considered as replacements but rather complements for your current laptops/netbooks and smartphones.

Which makes me wonder why all those computer manufacturers treat tablet computers like the new form of computing which everyone will switch to sooner or later. Are they expecting the general consumer to buy into the hype?