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Ready to replace your netbook with a tablet?

After CES 2011, we’ve seen a lot of tablet coming out this year in all shapes and sizes. Everybody’s coming out with their own iPad competitor and with Android 3.0 Honeycomb finally in the release stage, this should be more exciting.

There’s just so many manufacturers who are into tablets (specifically the Android flavor) — Asus, Acer, Lenovo, Toshiba, BlackBerry (RIM), Dell, MSI, HP and so many more (including local ones such as Cherry Mobile, RedFox and China-based Huawei).

With all the press tablets are getting, the netbooks seems to be left in the dust. Nothing really new to add to an already-mature device like netbooks.

Before, it was an easy choice when given the option to pick a netbook over a tablet. This year, I think it’s going to be different and people will be thinking a lot harder given the same circumstances (so much so if the netbook in question is a secondary device).

So let me hear your thoughts — would you pick a tablet over a netbook or the other way around?

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Abe is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of YugaTech with over 20 years of experience in the technology industry. He is one of the pioneers of blogging in the country and considered by many as the Father of Tech Blogging in the Philippines. He is also a technology consultant, a tech columnist with several national publications, resource speaker and mentor/advisor to several start-up companies.

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  2. Avatar for John John says:

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  3. Avatar for chocoballs chocoballs says:

    i plan to buy windows based tablet. trying to experiment in doing programming. :)

  4. Avatar for Kimisha Kimisha says:

    @sir abe: Neo released their tablet (possibly rebranded), the Neo Edge Omnipad.

    Specs: nVidia Tegra 250 1GHz Dual-cortex, 512MB DDR2, 16 GB Micro-SD included, 10.1” Multi-touch LCD, Android 2.2.

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  5. Avatar for adam adam says:

    I still go for laptop, I don’t think it can be replaced by tablet pc in terms of usability. May I add that tablet pc now has a dual core on it. Check this link Ipad China Dual Core

  6. Avatar for kenni kenni says:

    I am a rough user (moist fingers, smoking while typing, eating while surfing, even doing the laundry while checking emails). May be if tablets get better processors at an affordable cost, i’ll change my mind.

  7. Avatar for Ian Medina Ian Medina says:

    Tama yung sinabi ni steve jobs, ang netbook mabagal. It’s better to have a tablet para mabilis ang browsing. But i prefer to get an android tablet instead of an apple ipad 2nd generation. You can use your usb modem, external hard drive for the next version on android. hdmi output, can play hd videos, games, and meron flash 10.1 na wala sa iPad na sobrang smooth. Portability wise mas ok ang tablet. Ang netbook mabagal, mabigat at mabilis pa maubos ang battery at matagal pa magboot.

    Pero it’s still a matter of your usage. But i go with a tablet now since i have a netbook.

  8. Avatar for bench bench says:

    id been to a laptop..as well as the netbook..and now I already have at last the tablet that i been waiting for “archos 70 250Gb version..pinabili ko lng sa brother ko dyan satin since andito ako sa UAE pahirapan din maka score ng unit nato..halos lahat narin naman ng ginagawa ko sa laptop at netbook ay nagagawa nadin ng tablets so therefore mas mainam na gamitin ang mga tablets now coz wherever you’re on the go it is easy to carry..i have wifi in my showroom at work and house after work..and while I’m on the go i can listen to songs and watch some of my favorite movies..mainggit na ang mga katabi ko sa metro train d2 sa dubai but tablet really change our mobile life on the go..

  9. Avatar for Carlos Lazaro Jr Carlos Lazaro Jr says:

    let see..hmmm…

    can i edit photo/movie using Photoshop/Corel with my not so powerfull netbook,,,probably…but no…

    can i develop games, creates website with my netbook..probably..but no…screen to small…

    can i play hi-def games on netbook….no

    why do i use my netbook? internet, browsing, probably PvZ, as MP3 player, sometime portable movie player…well, the tablet (with newer chipset and processor) can do that…and the tablet is less bulky…

    battery issues i guess are the same over netbooks and tablets….

  10. Avatar for Turling Turling says:

    pwede bang mag install ng itunes app sa kahit anong tablet? Joke lng he he

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