Can a tablet replace a laptop?
My laptop is almost seven years old.Works, but sometimes hangs up. Would a tablet do everything a computer can do? If so which one?
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A tablet will not do everything a Mac or Windows computer would do, but IOS, Windows, or Android tablets will maybe do everything you need it to do.
If you are content to store your information on "the Cloud" and buy cloud computing services, you might find that what you need to do, that your tablet can't do, can be done for you by computers at Adibe, Google, Apple, or Microsoft.
The tasks I do on my deskside and laptop computers that my tablet doesn't do (or I choose not to do) include:
Managing my tablets and pocket devices.
Managing photo, video, and music libraries (collectively about 400GB).
Image, video, audio capture, including scanning.
Image processing.
Video editing and video processing, DVD creation.
MS Flight Simulator 9
One limitation of most tablet devices is that they are not set up to function as host comptuers, managing scanners, storage devices, Android devices can be made to cross this boundary but not all do. Windows tablets can be fully capable Windows computers, being a tablet just a packaging and marketing issue. Other Windows tablets are less capable. has been a pocket, mobile, or tablet OS called Windows for about 20 years, each iteration more capable, but current incarnation, Windows RT is still no equivalent to mainstream, Windows 8.
The other limitation of tablets is no matter how carefully you type, things get messed up, sometimes by spell checkers that think you are trying to say something else.
If you are content to store your information on "the Cloud" and buy cloud computing services, you might find that what you need to do, that your tablet can't do, can be done for you by computers at Adibe, Google, Apple, or Microsoft.
The tasks I do on my deskside and laptop computers that my tablet doesn't do (or I choose not to do) include:
Managing my tablets and pocket devices.
Managing photo, video, and music libraries (collectively about 400GB).
Image, video, audio capture, including scanning.
Image processing.
Video editing and video processing, DVD creation.
MS Flight Simulator 9
One limitation of most tablet devices is that they are not set up to function as host comptuers, managing scanners, storage devices, Android devices can be made to cross this boundary but not all do. Windows tablets can be fully capable Windows computers, being a tablet just a packaging and marketing issue. Other Windows tablets are less capable. has been a pocket, mobile, or tablet OS called Windows for about 20 years, each iteration more capable, but current incarnation, Windows RT is still no equivalent to mainstream, Windows 8.
The other limitation of tablets is no matter how carefully you type, things get messed up, sometimes by spell checkers that think you are trying to say something else.
