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//-->By Joshua Shermanhttp://www.jesherman.comPublished August 2013share:This manual is the intellectual property of MakeUseOf. It must only be published in its original form. Usingparts or republishing altered parts of this guide is prohibited without permission from MakeUseOf.comThink you’ve got what it takes to write a manual for MakeUseOf.com? We’re always willing to hear a pitch!Send your ideas to justinpot@makeuseof.com.TABLET BUYING GUIDE 2013Table Of Contents1. Introduction1.1 What makes it a tablet?1.2. What should you know?2. Who & What – Manufacturers & Developers2.1 What’s in a tablet?2.2 What’s computer architecture and why does it matter?2.3 What’s the difference between developers and manufacturers?2.4 What are the OSes tablets use?Apple’s iOSGoogle’s AndroidMicrosoft’s Windows 8Microsoft’s Windows RT2.5 Who are the top manufacturers of tablets?MicrosoftGoogleSamsungASUSHPAmazonApple2.6 Important terminology3. Compare & Contrast: DevicesThe iPadThe iPad MiniThe Nexus 7The Surface RTThe Surface ProThe Envy X2The Kindle Fire HD 8.9The Nexus 10Vivotab RT4. The Bottom Line / ConclusionHTTP://MAKEUSEOF.COMJOSHUA SHERMAN, HTTP://WWW.JESHERMAN.COM445666778910111112121212121313131515151617171818192021share:3TABLET BUYING GUIDE 20131. IntroductionSo what makes an iPad worth all the hype? What’s Android? Windows 8? From Samsung to Surface, the list of tabletterms goes on and on. There are many manufacturers making tablets of all shapes and sizes running a great varietyof software, and how do you know which one is right for you? This guide will put in simple language the facts youneed to know about all the kinds of tablets out there, and based on some key facts which one you should ultimatelypurchase.Tablets are in a sort of sweet spot between a laptop and a smartphone. Tablets themselves are a sort of successor tosomething called the Ultra-Mobile PC, back before the iPad, Kindle fire, or any of the buzzwords for tablets you mayhave heard today. The idea of a UMPC was to bring Windows to a tiny (but still bulky and quite heavy) device in thepalm of your hand. These clunkers were slow and useless to most people, but once smartphones went wild in 2007the UMPC helped set the stage for the tablets to arrive a few years later.Today, tablets serve as these sort of smartphone-laptop hybrids, offering often similar software you’d find on a smart-phone (though some few DO run a fully-fledged edition of Windows) with the screen real estate akin to your laptop.While there are a multitude of screen sizes and operating systems you can find on today’s tablets, this guide hopes tobreak down the many flavors of devices that are tablets and help you decide which one meets you needs, interests,and of course your budget.1.1 What makes it a tablet?This guide is about tablets, not PCs, not smartphones, and not laptops. However, as it turns out some tablets seema lot like laptops: they run Windows, they have a keyboard, and they even cost as much as laptops! However, let’sdistinguish a few things that will set the guidelines for what you should consider to be a tablet.1. A tablet is all about the screen. Tablets may only have a screen 7 inches in size or a screen upHTTP://MAKEUSEOF.COMJOSHUA SHERMAN, HTTP://WWW.JESHERMAN.COM4share:TABLET BUYING GUIDE 2013to 12 inches in size, but whatever the size it’s designed all around this centerpiece of the device.While it may include a keyboard and other features, a tablet is meant to be touched, hands-on,and absolutely finger-friendly.2. A tablet is portable, and meant to be wireless. At its core a tablet is meant to be about goingwherever you go. This has to do with more than just having wireless access via WiFi or cellularconnectivity. A tablet is meant to be rarely docked or stuck in a certain spot, and is also meant tobe extremely light-weight and friendly for travel, meaning you should be able to use it whereveryou may be.3. A tablet has excellent battery life. With portability comes the need for essential battery perfor-mance. In the case of the tablet battery life should be no less than 8 hours and up to 24 hours ormore in some cases.With these three main points in mind, the rest is up to the manufacturer and what they see as the goals for their tablet.1.2. What should you know?A few more things worth noting about this guide is that it will involve some technical mumbo-jumbo to help explainhow the gears work with tablets. A special category of tablets known as convertibles are also in this guide, which areactually tablets that run Windows 8 – making them seem a lot like miniature laptops than tablets. Still, these devicesare tablets first and PCs second – similar products, like the MacBook Air, are not included in this guide because theyare not tablets. Basic e-readers have also been excluded, as their primary purpose is reading books (though they mayappear to have multiple functions).This guide hopes to help explain as simply as possible a lot of complicated facts about tablets, but may not includecertain technical specifications that don’t affect the average consumer’s ability to make a decision. Lastly, all of thetablets in this guide are considered worth buying – there are no losers listed – but bear in mind new models are com-ing out every few months.Now, with all the formalities out of the way, let’s break down specifically how a tablet ticks, and just who’s involved inthe creation of these amazing gadgets.HTTP://MAKEUSEOF.COMJOSHUA SHERMAN, HTTP://WWW.JESHERMAN.COM5share: [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]