Laptops have long held a niche combining both portability and computational power. For company road warriors, they will still be the go to device. However, most citizen that own laptops rarely use this combination to its full potential. Friends and family are all the time request me for guidance on purchasing electronics and computers. Mac vs. Pc, laptop vs. Desktop, laptop vs. tablet. It all comes down to, "what do you need it to do"?
Away from home, most citizen only need an internet expedient to check email, surf the web, chat with friends, and passage social networks. At home, needs are a minuscule different. You need a fully fledged computer that can burn Dvds, play games, open and edit documents, edit photos & videos and more. Rarely do you need to do these things from a coffee shop.
Let's face it, laptops are a compromise. For the same estimate of technology power you are going to pay more. They are mobile, but still fairly heavy and bulky. They have minuscule upgrade options. A better clarification is a desktop and tablet combination. You get the best of both worlds, more processing power and more mobility. The best part is together they cost less than the laptop.
Tablets are thin and light and relatively cheap. They may be minuscule in functionality, but when you get down to it, they do exactly what you truly need them to do. For all other tasks, you have your trusty desktop. With the advancement of cloud computing, it has never been easier to passage the same data from complicated places. Other limitations of internet devices like physical memory can be overlooked for the same reason.
Right now you can buy a blazing fast desktop with a terabyte hard drive and a decent monitor for around 0. This motor will last for years and can be truly upgraded. It will deal with nearly anyone you throw at it. An equivalent laptop (that won't give you a sore back) will cost over 00, nearly twice as much. To compliment that desktop, get a 7" or 10" tablet. These tablets have big enough screens that you can taste the full web and they are a fraction of the weight of a laptop. Battery life will be longer too. Sure, they have their limitations, but most users won't miss them. The tablet will set you back about 0. Your grand total for the best of both worlds is 00.
I predict that the major manufacturers are going to start pairing this winning combination together and giving a price break if you purchase both. We've seen it before with printers and other accessories. And that brings us to why tablets will replace laptops. With more and more processing taking place in the cloud on big qualified servers, the need for laptops will diminish. You can already do 90% of your mobile computing on current tablets. In 3 years, laptops for the company road warriors may even be a dying breed.
Tablets Will Soon Take Over Laptops and Here's Why
