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PCBOX Lileo, notebook y tablet todo en uno

PCBOX lanza al mercado su nueva tableta Lileo, como fuerte apuesta al mundo de las PCs convertibles. Este equipo se puede utilizar en modo tablet o notebook; y está adaptada para correr el sistema operativo Windows 8.1 con Microsoft Office y aprovechar sus características táctiles.

Para la potencia de este sistema la firma utilizó el procesador Intel Atom Z3735F y 1 GB de RAM, y suma una pantalla…

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Desktop, Laptop Or Tablet?

The popularity of tablets has certainly contributed to a decline in the sales of laptop & desktop PCs. It also does seem that most people who purchase tablet style devices are really actually using them to replace their PCs & not to supplement them. Could this mean the end for laptops or PCs as we know it?

Back in the days of Windows XP. OK, circa the early noughties, laptops were readily available but most people were buying desktops. You’d have to spend well over £1000 on a laptop then for it’s specification to be anywhere even close to the conventional desktop of the day. And let’s not forget desktops even came bundled with those bulky high quality CRT type monitors!

Portability & convenience advantages of laptops became obvious as prices got lower & performance higher. Today though, laptops could be regarded as heavy, cumbersome & less flexible than a hybrid or convertible tablet.

One of the reasons behind the popularity of the iPad when it was introduced was ease of use. Because operating a real Computer is mainly based on software & the Operating System itself, for anyone that is unfamiliar with a particular program, using it can prove difficult. Not so on an iPad, it seemed because they were as easy as they come. Learning to navigate through direct features & applications could be mastered within hours. The email and browsing facilities seemed simpler to navigate than a typical laptop or desktop web browser.

Apps & Software are actually different despite the fact that the two perform almost similar functions, a program or software requires more skills & experience than an app to use. You need to install software manually in your PC & take time to learn how to use it. But, with apps, the process is much simpler. You simply click or 'tap touch' on an icon. Software is the ultimate power behind both the laptop, desktop & tablet of course, but most of it now has or is just being relegated to the workplace.

Ten years ago, a laptop was the pinnacle of speed & convenience, but today it is likely your tablet PC. And not necessarily an iPad either. Tablet PCs can run full desktop programs & fully fledged software. They can even be docked to full screen monitors & used with a full size keyboard & conventional mouse just like your old desktop tower, so can ultimately & literally entirely replace it too. For this reason, & because a laptop cannot be used easily as a tablet. A newer convertible unit that gives the best of all worlds can be the most flexible approach to modern computing for the future.

With a laptop computer, you have to find a secure hot spot, log in then conduct your online business needing more space to do so. With a tablet device on the other hand, you can pay bills, transfer money, check emails and still listen to some music while you are at it from any location. Basically, a tablet computer combines the hustle and bustle of your PC or Laptop, but brings functionality closer to your fingertips. And if it’s a convertible tablet, it can serve as almost your one device for all your needs anywhere.

Another factor that contributes to the rising popularity of tablet devices is their personal nature. A touch screen device or Smartphone is certainly more personal than a desktop or laptop PC. You can store both work related & personal content in your hand held device. As such, you are able to work from any location with or without your PC docking it to a large monitor or converting it from on screen keyboard to hardware keyboard as & when you see fit.

There has been an increase in the popularity of tablet computers & Smartphones & the slow down in the sale of laptop computers & Desktop PCs continues. Nonetheless, PCs and laptops are not facing the prospect of total annihilation since they form the backbone of most workplaces, industries & offices. However, the proliferation of tablet devices & Smartphones in the market raises significant questions about the future of PCs and laptop computers in residential areas, schools and colleges.

Tablets are not so easy to hold up to our ears to accept or make personal phone calls on or to carry around & get that picture with their handy built in cameras though. For that, we still use another device. A smaller version of the full size tablet, to all intents & purpose identical, accept it has the required ability to make & receive calls too.

We have certainly been marketed & ‘brand conditioned’ into believing that we can’t have it all in one device, when it is becoming increasingly obvious that we can. But, outsourcing self-discipline to the limitations of old technology, instead of making the effort to apply self-discipline to the use of new technology means that you could very well be missing out on it’s very purpose.

Microsoft for example are not going back to the ‘old interface’ at all (Remember DOS). The Modern UI is here to stay.  But the desktop isn’t going away. The purpose of the desktop is for “power users” who have to use old legacy x86 desktop programs. The Modern UI is designed for the future, with the Windows Store, for what most people want:  content consumption. If you have a windows tablet, for example, you can live entirely in the Modern UI. The only time you’d have to actually go back to the desktop with W8.1 Pro is when you need to use a desktop program, such as Photoshop, or perhaps a more powerful video editing suite. Beyond that, you’d likely find yourself using the desktop less & less.

Windows 8 is popular.  We remember when Windows XP was highly unpopular when it first came out. I.T. departments wanted nothing to do with it, it was called a “fisher price” operating system due to its colours, & largely dismissed. Microsoft had to pump in millions of dollars into its marketing, & basically beg I.T. departments to adopt it. The only reason they did adopt it, was that there was so many years between XP and Vista that their normal upgrade cycle hit when only XP was the newest thing out there.

To compare again down memory lane, Windows 95 was also “unpopular” & “confusing” with users. The “Start Menu” was a new, unusual, & very confusing thing. Do you click it? Menus? Double clicking things on the desktop? All that was new. Remember “Start to Shut Down”? That was the biggest joke in 1995. Now it seems many are lost without it.  Microsoft even had to do an update where a “Click here to Start” with an arrow scrolled in on the taskbar and told you what to do (among other things like videos & tips). Even the “mouse” we all use today was originally mocked & experts said nobody in their right mind would use a mouse for productivity.

So what’s the difference now? The internet. Back then, you probably didn’t hear about much of any of these complaints, but now anyone can complain, find fellow people who don’t like change, & feel validated. Years ago, not so much. You basically grumbled at change (like what most humans do) and finally learned how it worked, & liked it over time.  We’ve even seen that at work. When something new is rolled out people are furious!  They hate it, won’t use it. Then a year later they say how great it is. It’s the cycle. If Microsoft stuck with the traditional x86 style desktop programs, Windows would be dead in about 5 years. The money isn’t there anymore as shown by them making apps for everything else. Will x86 programs still exist? Sure. But it will be marginalised as the years go on to just power users, or more specifically, behind the scenes programs most people don’t use except if they have to for their work or jobs.

But we won’t see that with Windows 8. Microsoft is going with two year upgrade cycles now. So every two years, a new “version” is released, thus Windows 9. Will the Start Screen/Modern UI still exist?  Oh yes. But they can now go back to the desktop & add updates to that (the plan all along). Microsoft have always wanted to give users what they want, which they couldn’t do with Windows 7 & below. Everyone had to use the same UI. Now, because most people do content consumption, the Modern UI is perfect for that. Power users will see in the subsequent versions of Windows the desktop being made more & more powerful, customised to power users, not content consumption.

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The Laptop Is Dying by Gizmodo UK. There's an old joke about a doctor giving an elderly patient some good news and bad news. "Give me the bad news first," the old guy says. "OK, you've got c 0.

  Laptops today are remarkably similar to what they always have been. The thing is, the ideal of what a Laptop wanted to be all along was reached a long time ago.

  Being able to take your videos, photos & internet articles around with you was the idea, but by 2009, laptop sales declined. Nowadays the Laptop is not the most portable device you can own, of course. Likely it wouldn't be your go to screen for watching TV or movies, or for reading anything other than web pages perhaps, but certainly a laptop should be great for work, writing comfortably & the all important multitasking.

  This category has already evolved into a web browsing device, a desk communicator, document pusher with a high enough quality screen suitable for viewing & editing our photos, but the world is already finding even more ways to move on from the traditional uses for a laptop.