Do you think Tablets will replace laptops in the future?

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I have a Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 7(my 1st tablet) and had it since Christmas day and i am very happy with it and i don't use my laptop as much because of my tablet.

I am getting a 11.6 inch Windows 8(64-bit) tablet(Acer w700) with i5, 1.7GHz and 4GB of RAM with HD graphics 4000 it be able to play hardcore games like FIFA, F1 2013 on medium(not on high) settings and do content creation stuff(video editing, building websites) and this Windows 8 Tablet will be my main computer and most probably won't be using my laptop near as much anymore.

Because it is more portable and lighter than my laptop and i can take my Windows 8 tablet on holiday instead of taking my laptop and it is more powerful than my laptop(it has a i3, 1.4GHz) with Windows 8(64-bit) and but it has a 6GB of RAM and a good graphics card NVIDIA GeForce 720M.

And I can see in 2/5 years time Tablets will be more powerful(better processors/OS, more RAM and better for gaming and be able to do more (advanced)stuff than tablets we have right now..

This is why Netbooks are dying because of Tablets.

There are people have replaced there laptops with tablets and all so tablet sales have over taken PC sales in late 2013 and will go up to over 75% by 2017.

Tablets are getting more popular for people every year.

I think (Andriod/IOS/Windows 8)Tablets will replace Laptops in the future. :)

Do you think Tablets will replace laptops in the future? What do you think?
 

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I think perhaps some hybrid might. Keyboards are a necessity. Unless you find a way to integrate them into a tablet without taking up too much visual space, making the keys too small, or the tablet too large/small, then you are pretty much stuck with a laptop.

However, having a keyboard included with a tablet purchase would make them better than a laptop, because then they become 'hybrid' :)
 

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Hi there
For your needs a tablet is probably just fine.

However imagine trying to translate several documents from a single source, run complex engineering applications, do a lot of creative content -- often where you need large external screens (and several of them) the drawbacks of tablets become pretty obvious. For pure consumption (email, facebook type stuff, movie watching etc) a tablet works just fine but NO ONE has yet come up with a better way of cutting and pasting text using anything more convenient than a mouse -- most people I know still use a mouse on a laptop in preference to the touchpad, and almost anybody can type far faster on a classical keyboard than by using any type of on screen touch keyboard.

In any case if you add a mouse and a keyboard to a tablet -- you've essentially got a PC --albeit hugely underpowered compared with a PC -- and unless you've got a Windows tablet you'd essentially have to do all your work in full screen mode -- very inconvenient - especially for the translating documents example I gave above. What about also copying content from several sources / sites too.

Tablets, like e-readers are fine for a lot of stuff but if you NEED a "Real computer" then the desktop / laptop doesn't have any alternative currently or even in the foreseeable future.

Cheers
jimbo
 

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Once a tablet can have a full size keyboard, with a full sized touchpad and can have some sort of a hinge that would allow me to have it sitting on my lap (like it is now), while i am sitting on the couch and not have it tip or fall (like my laptop), then maybe. Until then, I'm on my Ultrabook....ALWAYS. Trying to accomplish the above with my Surface Pro is just an exercise in futility....therefore I hardly ever touch the thing.
 

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No, I don't believe so. One of the biggest draw backs is the issue of tablets and I shall throw in laptops, the inability of being able to be left on for any length of time. Even desktops need to be properly "cooled". But even the simplest desktop is a workhorse compared to the others. Oh and I forgot to add that from what I have heard, there battery life is not all that up to par. One is basically as mobile as the next outlet. Now a tablet and I shall throw in the smartphones, too, are I guess great, if you just want to check your facebook status, but if you really use a computer? No. I like my big screen and keyboard.
 

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My laptop is a desktop replacement with a 17" screen which pretty much never gets moved. I don't think I want to lug a 17" tablet around. I suppose I could just hook up the tablet to a larger screen and connect a full size keyboard and mouse but then would have all that separate stuff do deal with. I like having it all in one unit.

I hope laptops don't go away anytime soon.
 

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I could imagine in the near future having a phone, entering my TV room, turning on the TV with an app, and having a video streamed from the internet to my phone to my TV. I would be able to move to a different room (and therefore TV) by pausing on the phone.

Battery replacements would have 12+ hours of juice. Would be able to power a wireless PC monitor, mouse and keyboard via the phone in true HD, etc. Dream on!
 

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Both me and my wife have replaced our laptops with tablets.
 

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If they have a tablet with a 24" screen, maybe - provided they can put a 4GHz quad CPU into it so that I can make my video encodings.
 

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90 something percent of my computing needs are done via iPad rMini or my Asus Transformer T100 hybrid. My desktop runs the media server for the house but that is about it. The rest of the time I use my tablets. Still trying to figure out which one I will stick with and which I will sell. The ipad I have used for awhile now and I am very familiar with. The windows tablets not so much. Still trying to get my head around the different options for both.

Either way though, yes, I think tablets are going to take over laptops.
 

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90 something percent of my computing needs are done via iPad rMini or my Asus Transformer T100 hybrid. My desktop runs the media server for the house but that is about it. The rest of the time I use my tablets. Still trying to figure out which one I will stick with and which I will sell. The ipad I have used for awhile now and I am very familiar with. The windows tablets not so much. Still trying to get my head around the different options for both.

Either way though, yes, I think tablets are going to take over laptops.
If you can run 90% on toys, you must not have a lot of computing needs. I have an Asus Transformer myself (and a Nexus 7 and a Win8 phone) but I do not see myself encoding videos or making PowerPoint presentations like this one on these devices. The toys are nice for information consumption, but anything that needs CPU or GPU muscle or a lot of typing or a big screen is impossible to perform.
 

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If all you are doing is accessing Facebook, light web browsing, watching movies, and maybe light gaming or sending a few quick email messages, then a tablet is probably all you need. That description may well describe most people. But most is not all. For anyone doing substantial text input or detailed interaction with an application, and many people do that everyday, the use of a tablet is going to be a painful experience. The problems are inherent in the design of a tablet and aren't going to go away with improved technology.

Tablets are also going to have problems with performance. The faster an electronic device operates the more power it will consume and the more heat it will generate. That is the laws of physics and better technology can't change that. Tablets will receive performance benefits from improved technology but will always be left behind by laptops.

There is room in the market for both laptops and tablets. The market share of tablets will rise, but there is a limit. There is a substantial segment of the market that a tablet cannot fill, and neither can a desktop. And that is likely to remain so for the forseeable future.
 

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No I don't. But f I need to do some work at home I can use one of the two windows tablets versus my iPad. If I am going to do video encoding or conversion I will have my Mac Mini do the major lifting. The tablets are just a laptop replacement for the most part for my normal every day computing needs.
 

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Of course Tablet will replace computer! The thing is actually, tablet are not up to date. You just have to think about flashplayer for Android. But don't worry. This day is not to far yet.

Lievre
 

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Laptops...maybe.
Desktops... never !

:)

~edit~

I think that in a near future that already began, we will have mobiles keeping people connected and realizing amazing everyday tasks, working like personal assistants, while smaller and more powerful and ecologic desktops will do the muscle job, specially in games, media editing and modeling software.
 

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Of course Tablet will replace computer! The thing is actually, tablet are not up to date. You just have to think about flashplayer for Android. But don't worry. This day is not to far yet.

Lievre

I don't see this happening at all. Maybe for the 'web consumers' but not for people who do any serious work.
 

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No, I don't believe so. One of the biggest draw backs is the issue of tablets and I shall throw in laptops, the inability of being able to be left on for any length of time. Even desktops need to be properly "cooled". But even the simplest desktop is a workhorse compared to the others. Oh and I forgot to add that from what I have heard, there battery life is not all that up to par. One is basically as mobile as the next outlet. Now a tablet and I shall throw in the smartphones, too, are I guess great, if you just want to check your facebook status, but if you really use a computer? No. I like my big screen and keyboard.

Tablets and laptops can be left on for a long time as they only use incredibly low amounts of power to run and cooling isn't so much of an issue since Atom processors and the latest crop of Intel i-Series processors don't dissipate so much heat. Battery life of the latest generation of tablets and laptops can range from at least 10-17 hours, some 2-in-1s even have dual batteries; one in the tablet section and one in the keyboard section.
 

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I do see the 2-in-1 hybrids taking over. They're tablets when you want them, laptops when need be. Ideally, OEMs should design their tablets more like the Surface Pro instead of the ipad is they are to be taken more seriously as a work device. A tablet that can't even stand, quite literally, on its own was meant as an internet appliance. The ipad is the definition of such; the idea of an ipad to be used for things a Windows PC has done for decades is nonsense.

In an ideal world, Windows tablets should have some kind of physical keyboard (preferably wireless), built in kickstand, and stylus (preferably pressure sensitive with palm block technology) at a proper price range. The Surface Pro is a lovely device, but $1,000 dollars for it just seems to high for me when I spent almost $1,100 on my desktop rebuild.

Then and only then, I'd say tablets can respectively replace most other form factors.
 

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The Surface Pro is a lovely device, but $1,000 dollars for it just seems to high for me when I spent almost $1,100 on my desktop rebuild.
That's why I got the Transformer when it was on sale for $329. It is a great machine. Fast and flexible and the battery seems to last forever - they say 11 hours.

The SSD is small but after installing Office and another dozen programs I still have 13.5GB of free space. All my user data is on the 64GB MicroSD card. I also put a couple of images on there - just in case. And should I ever need really large masses of data, I'll put them on my 128GB USB3 stick - I got it for $49.99. It is also good to run virtual machines off it.
 

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