Generally speaking, a convertible tablet PC that can be transformed from the laptop configuration with one handheld tablets. The main driving force behind the development of these machines is a requirement by many users for convenient portability and ability to work requiring less space.
It is worth bearing in mind that there are two distinct camps within the Tablet PC market. There are lightweight tablets, or plates, which have no keyboard and rely solely on the interface of the touchscreen, like Apple iPad and there are laptops that convert into tablet touch screen by rotating the screen and laying it flat on top keyboard, such as the Dell Inspiron Duo. This later category that this article deals simply because computing power IPAD and slate clones do not have powerful enough processor to enable them to carry out a full range of tasks and perform typical office applications that laptop can.
Tablet PC Pros
the biggest advantages of Tablet PCs is their mobility. Small and lightweight Tablet PC lets you work in any situation. All Tablet PC's share one thing in common, they use the technology of the touch screen to allow you to enter data on a screen do. That is why these machines are so small, in tablet mode you dispense with the keyboard and instead of type on a virtual keyboard or by hand with a stylus
.Another advantage of Tablet PC that can be used for drawing and illustration with the help of needles. This allows for more creative and free flowing interaction with the digital paper.
Touch screen technology has advanced greatly over the past few years, with the arrival of the iPhone & IPAD and it percolated through the entire industry to create a whole new generation of devices that are easier to use and boast an improved user experience. With the widespread acceptance of this technology, the price for a convertible Tablet PC is too fast and fell for the first time in history, this technology can be acquired for the same price as the standard mid-level laptop.
Tablet PC-cons
While these machines are much more portable than their desktop and laptop ancestors, they tend to be heavier than a slate-style tablets and they require more processing, graphics and hard disk space. However, newer models such as Dell offers a Duo-sized netbook computing with the benefits of touch screen tablet usability while still having the power of mid-level laptop.
Some older convertible Tablet PC's are obsolete touch screen that can be lazy or may be used only with a pencil. It will indeed be harder to use and the inclusion of a finger touch screen capabilities would be desirable in any convertible laptop you are considering acquiring.
Apple iPad is the best touch screen available at this time. It is unfortunate that manufacturers of convertible Tablet PCs have not been able to match its performance as a calculating limits IPAD means that it can really only be used for surfing the Internet, smaller tasks and games / entertainment. Over the past few months we have seen close the gap with the release of Dell Inspiron Duo and some expensive high-level Hewlett Packard machines come very close indeed.
Conclusion
If you have a cell phone, multi-touch screen tablet PC that can cope with the real computing tasks and run Real Application based software then you will need more than IPAD or Android based tablets. Convertible tablet PC offers the best of both worlds. Despite being heavier and thicker than Apple iPad, the advantages far outweigh those of small lightweight tablet because they provide a true computing power, as well as for entertainment.