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Laptops vs Tablets

highaltitudeflatulentexpulsion · · Colorado · Joined Oct 2012 · Points: 35
reboot wrote: Except it sucks royally and has worse compatibility to MS Office than Google's browser-based productivity suites? It's one thing to tinker stuff on your own, it's quite another when companies are paying good money to the employees to get stuff done.
I had a very good open office experience last year. My gf couldn't open a powerpoint that was emailed to her to work on. I got it open with open office, saved it and emailed it back to her, and it opened again on her computer. That really saved the day.

Most times however, it's a quirky and hard to use PITA. I simply get less done on it in the same time compared to real office.

Of course, I'm tech dumb and proud of it. I ditched Ubuntu to go to Windows 7 and never looked back.

Thanks most of you for your advice. I'm not buying a tablet tomorrow. Going to do a couple weeks in class and wait for my next class to start before settling on anything.
andrew mcmillan · · Unknown Hometown · Joined Oct 2010 · Points: 0

Get the Asus T100. Comes with office. You won't run into limitations with processing power or RAM browsing or editing documents.

To answer your question as to what it's missing- Build quality. Made of plastic. My volume rocker on the tablet feels just a little flexy and cheap. 720p vs 1080p. Slower to charge but compare at 10hrs battery, not an issue for me.

It's a great device and has replaced my laptop. To give you and example, I was browsing mountainproject in tablet mode and saw your thread. Clicked it into the keyboard to type out my reply.

Surface pro 2 if you're loaded. Dell venue 11 if you want a slightly better product with same specs. T100 on a budget.

mbakerwh · · Gallup, NM · Joined Feb 2013 · Points: 0

If anyone's still looking for a laptop....I have a Macbook Pro 13" that's lightly used, from 2009, for sale. PM me if you're interested.

niman123 · · Unknown Hometown · Joined Aug 2014 · Points: 0

That's a good question,I use dell laptop. It is very affordable and very useful. I bought it in $350. You must try it.

20 kN · · Unknown Hometown · Joined Feb 2009 · Points: 1,346

I never knew buying laptops was classified as a sport.

wankel7 · · Indiana · Joined Oct 2010 · Points: 10

Had an old laptop and didn't want to spend the money on a new one. I travel a lot so a thin / light laptop was needed.

So I got an Android tablet to hold me over. It lasted about a year before I figured I never really used it.

Sold it and got an ultra book.... yoga 2 pro.

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