Choose to buy a tablet or laptop in Vietnam

Tablets are a new trend emerging in the past 1 year with the arrival of the iPad. However, in Vietnam, users still tend to buy laptops more than tablets.

Tablet has the advantage of being compact, bringing interesting experiences to the touch screen. However, if you want to use for work, netbook or laptop is still the first choice.

Mobile features

Hold your tablet with just one hand. Photo: Samsung.

Tablet (such as iPad, Samsung Galaxy Tab) is ultra-portable device weighing only about 400 g, 4 to 5 times lighter than a laptop. In addition, due to the use of the same chip in smartphones, high-end tablets have an impressive battery life, continuous use for half a day or a week of standby time, while the laptop's is only 1 / 3 numbers.

In terms of mobile features, tablets outperform netbooks and laptops.

Entertainment

Watch movies on iPad 2.

Focused tablets support entertainment such as reading e-books, playing simple games, listening to music, viewing photos and videos. In addition, it also owns a touch screen that can be rotated vertically or horizontally, which few laptops in the market have.

If the user intends to buy the device primarily for entertainment, the tablet is the right choice.

Surf the web

Browse the web on tablets.

Tablet brings a lot of new experiences when browsing the web with the ability to zoom in, zoom out the image just by stroking the hand. The speed of loading web pages on the iPad is not much worse than on netbooks.

However, a weakness of the tablet is even high-end models using dual-core chips, when entering pages with many Flash, animation, will be shocked, standing, which rarely happens on laptops.

Office work

Laptop is still the first choice for work. Photo: PC World.

Work support is a major drawback on tablets. Although equipped with e-mail and office features with an eye-catching and friendly interface, most users still believe that long text typing on the tablet touch screen is much more annoying than on the table. Hard keys of laptops.

Most laptops use the Windows operating system, supported by a variety of work support software such as Office. These applications have been familiar to users for many years, so they want them to switch to using software on tablets and touch keyboards, not an early afternoon.

Storage capacity

Laptop storage capacity 1 TB. Photo: HP.

The most advanced tablets such as iPad 2, Galaxy Tab or Motorola Xoom . also only have memory up to 64 GB. This small number can only save photos, light games and MP3 music, and it is difficult to contain all 4 HD movies

Laptops use even hard drives up to 1 TB, allowing for more comfortable data storage, especially Full HD movies up to 50 GB / file.

Recently, the Archos 70 tablet has a hard drive of up to 250 GB, but it is as heavy as the netbook.

Support connection

Very few tablets fully support connection ports. Photo: TM

iPad is the most popular tablet today. However, it does not integrate any connection ports other than the computer interface. If users want to own more USB ports, card readers, it is imperative to buy more accessories at expensive prices. Other products running the Android platform are fortunate to have HDMI, micro USB and card readers. It is very difficult to find a full USB port.

In contrast, most laptops or netbooks today have full ports from HDMI, USB or card readers. Not only that, the speed of data transfer on laptops is much faster than tablet, due to the use of high-speed Intel hard drives and chips.
Price

Tablets are an emerging technology trend for over a year. However, in the Vietnamese market, there have been many configurable products from low to high and varied in price. Typical cheapest is the fake products, from China only cost more than 2 million. These tablets are of low quality, using resistive touch screens, slow running, hot and low battery. A little higher is Vietnamese brand tablet but "made in China" or Archos products.

The current top tablets, the Apple iPad, Motorola Xoom or Samsung Galaxy Tab, all cost between 10 and over 20 million dong. With this number, users can buy a quite "big" configuration laptop running Intel Core i chip, up to 4 GB RAM and discrete graphics card.

Choose laptop or tablet

According to technology shop owners, overseas, most people have owned one or more laptops and netbooks. Therefore, tablets are additional technological devices to bring new experiences. In Vietnam, many people still do not own laptops, so if they choose, most of them will be inclined to laptops because the tablet is only considered to serve entertainment.

Overall comparison table for tablets and laptops

The Whibb technology website offers a scale from 1 (lowest) to 3 (highest) that evaluates tablets and laptops according to their intended use.