Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Making life simpler with Tablet PCs

By Lee Albins


Over the past few of decades,computers have evolved at an unbelievably high rate. One of the most recent systems that has taken the tech savvy world by storm is the tablet PC. A tablet PC is a tablet sized, usually square shaped personal computer, with the features of a full-sized PC. In addition, it may possibly have attractive features like a rotating touch screen with an additional input device like a stylus or a digital pen. Usually,a tablet PC runs on windows or Linux OS. Features like wifi entry and even Outlook, are the advantages of a notebook PC when on the move, are easily available with tablet PCs.

Since the term first came into use with Microsoft's Tablet PC in 2001, the market has been flooded with numerous types of tablet PCs offered by several manufacturers.Few of the popular manufacturers are:Apple,Samsung,HP,Dell. As the competition is so high,the technology is cutting edge with excellent usability. Competition has also resulted in the dropping of prices for these tablet PCs.When it comes to factors like compatibility and availability,Android OS emerges as the king.Android is an open OS which any developer or manufacturer can use in his products.Some of the popular Android-based tablets are Samsung Galaxy Tab and Asus Eee pad. Samsung Galaxy Tab is currently the largest competitor to Apple's ipad. As the end product though,ipad comes as the most sought after and most popular tablet PC that is available in the market presently.It is much thinner, has 2 cameras-one in the front and one at the rear end, video chat option and is much faster. The negative features though are the photo quality and the ports requiring adapters to function.

Microsoft Home windows Tablet PCs have been the longest in the market.They are available in 2 forms-convertibles and slates. They offer the features of laptops like folding keyboards, which delivers it the closest to a notebook PC. The reasons the Home windows primarily based tablet PCs are popular are the user friendly and creative options they offer.The slate form is most popular with business users Although the convertibles are in demand by the personal users. The digital pen offered with the Home windows tablets work similar to a mouse for a computer,which is mainly for navigation and selecting options.

Apart from this feature, the pen also acts as a handwriting recognition device in some of the tables with Windows OS. Some models also offer Speech input, where navigation can be done by just giving a command in the microphone.They are capable of converting handwritten notes on display to text. If the hardware installed like RAM,processor and Storage are of standard specifications,then a Windows tablet uses less processing power than an Android or iOS based counterparts. With tablet PCs now coming with Windows 7 OS, the features have been upgraded to provide the best experience of Windows 7 to the user. There is a math input panel, which recognizes mathematical equations and symbols.Though the performance of the digital pen has also improved, Windows 7 tablets are offering the multi-touch capability to their users.The actions are intuitive. For example, if you slide two fingers apart from each other touching the display, images can be zoomed out.

With every brand trying to bring in new technology for tablet PCs, the long term of tablet PCs appears very advanced and bright.




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