Articles about comparison

If you need to buy a tablet today there aren't too many of them worthy of your consideration. Why I say 'need' instead of 'looking for'? Because it you are not in a hurry the best thing to do is wait for other brands to bring their models to market later this year, as there are a lot of goodies on the pipe.If that's not the case and you really need to make a purchase today the best tablet options you have are the iPad 2 and the Motorola Xoom. There are a lot of similarities between those two...

I'm sure when you hear about weight, size, speed of tablets you don't have a perfect image in mind about that particular device. After all these are just numbers, and it's hard to reference them without a direct comparison with another similar device. That's why Apple introduced the iPad 2 by telling us it's 1/3 slimmer than the 1st gen iPad, not by throwing numbers at us. This is how our brain works: by comparing what it knows with what it sees. That's why I thought of making a graphic chart th...

Blackberry devices are serious gadgets, meant especially for professionals. There's no denying in this. I guess no one sees Blackberries as cool devices, or tailored for multimedia needs. Of course all RIM devices can play a clip, record one, take pictures and so on, but that's not the main purpose.For me this is the reason someone looking for a smartphone or tablet today is not considering Blackberry Playbook, but either the iPhone or an Android device. All those alternatives can do what a ...

We've talked a bit about the 7 inch Blackberry PlayBook tablet, RIM's own child that's supposed to be a mix of business and entertainment on the go, one that could take over the iPad (or at least that's what they hope). If you had doubts about that, RIM released a video showing a head to head comparison of Blackberry PlayBook against the all mighty iPad on web browsing experience. As you expect, RIM outlines the fact that iPad doesn't support Adobe Flash and also takes hints on iPad's inability ...

If you've read from time to time news about IT this year you already know that the iPad is the tablet that has set the trend in 2010, being already one of the fastest adopted technologies of all times. This doesn't mean that the iPad is the best tablet around, as a lot of big names have announced their own tablets, some of which look like they'll give the iPad a run for its money (when they'll actually come to market, of course). I'm thinking currently at the Samsung Galaxy TAB, one tablet set t...

If I was to resume all the problems with Windows 7  tablets that would be performance. I'm not talking about expensive devices like Lenovo X201t, but of slate tablets, that can be bought for under 1000$, some for even lower amounts. Performance is the thing that makes Windows 7 tablets based on Atom CPUs generally to fall way behind in responsiveness compared to the iPad or Android tablets. There's not much you can do about that, you might think, plus couple that with the user interface not rea...

Wow, do people still ask this question? Well, apparently they do, as a lot of consumers don't know exactly the difference between a tablet PC and a laptop, so when faced with those two types of products in an online store they don't know what to choose.I won't make a big deal of this article, but I'll try and explain in plain language the main differences between a tablet PC and a laptop/notebook.So let's see what makes a laptop and what makes a Tablet PC, simple as that: Screen This i...

I don't know you, but personally when I hear manufacturers bragging about how their products are supposed to fare against the competition and how their chipsets will trash the ones they're fighting with I tend to be skeptical about it. So did Steve Paine at UMPC Portal, who put to the test the iPad against the downclocked Viliv V70 MID who uses the Menlow platform, a very similar one to the recently announced Moorestown Atom Z6xx. The Menlow was down-clocked to 800 Mhz for a megahertz to megaher...

Everybody loves tablets, as they are the revelation of 2010, the new gadget that promises to change the mobile game. This I believe will make smartphones a little jealous, but won't cut into their market share, and there are reasons for that.Even if a lot of people believe touch tablets are better than smartphones at every task you might imagine there are a few reasons people won't ditch their intelligent phones for a large screen pad just because you can browse better on them.So, here's...

A loft of you guys have asked  me about the Lenovo S10-3t and the Asus EEE PC T101MT convertible tablet PCs with netbook hardware inside. Those are the best choices right now as the Lenovo already sells the S10-3t while the ASUS has begun shipping the EEE PC  T101MT (reviewed by me here) so availability is expected in days to weeks time.In this post I'll try and put head to head the two convertible tablet PCs and try and make a short comparison review that might help you decide which one o...