Ready to replace your netbook with a tablet?

After CES 2011, we’ve seen a lot of tablet coming out this year in all shapes and sizes. Everybody’s coming out with their own iPad competitor and with Android 3.0 Honeycomb finally in the release stage, this should be more exciting.

There’s just so many manufacturers who are into tablets (specifically the Android flavor) — Asus, Acer, Lenovo, Toshiba, BlackBerry (RIM), Dell, MSI, HP and so many more (including local ones such as Cherry Mobile, RedFox and China-based Huawei).

With all the press tablets are getting, the netbooks seems to be left in the dust. Nothing really new to add to an already-mature device like netbooks.

Before, it was an easy choice when given the option to pick a netbook over a tablet. This year, I think it’s going to be different and people will be thinking a lot harder given the same circumstances (so much so if the netbook in question is a secondary device).

So let me hear your thoughts — would you pick a tablet over a netbook or the other way around?

Abe Olandres

Abe is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of YugaTech with over 20 years of experience in the technology industry. He is one of the pioneers of blogging in the country and considered by many as the Father of Tech Blogging in the Philippines. He is also a technology consultant, a tech columnist with several national publications, resource speaker and mentor/advisor to several start-up companies.

https://www.yugatech.com

90 Comments

Kimisha says:

14 years ago

Tablet for web browsing on-the-go: bigger than a phone but more portable than a netbook.
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Paul says:

14 years ago

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?
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futurology says:

14 years ago

i agree with Paul that tablets are complementary or should i say supplementary to a notebook but not a netbook which i think is underpowered. But still it is a personal preference depending on your computer needs. But given the advancement of technology, i predict that sooner or later all physical keyboards will be replaced by virtual keyboard but with advanced features. Look at the evolution of handwriting to typewriting to a computer keyboard to a virtual keyboard, anything imaginable can be done in due time of course. How i wish i can ride on a time machine and see the technology 100 years from now hehe or at least 30 years from now
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Matt0-kun says:

14 years ago

I still prefer notebooks :|
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tantra2gadget says:

14 years ago

Notebooks for me,but im planning to buy ipad tablet this summer..
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ricardo isip says:

14 years ago

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.
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ricardo isip says:

14 years ago

@ futurology
i disagree with the virtual keyboard as the future technology. Voice to text and Voice command pho…..
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tfcnow01 says:

14 years ago

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,
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tfcnow01 says:

14 years ago

netbook pala papalitan ng tablet, kala ko notebook, maari lamang ito base kung paano mo ginagamit yung netbook mo, kung pa browse browse ka lang eh, puede ka nang mag tablet.
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jun says:

14 years ago

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..
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