Laptop, Notebook or Tablet?

Orlando_Virgin

Hi All,

Basically looking for something to use for the internet, play some online poker, and travelling for 8 weeks next year so want to keep a bit of a blog, and upload photos to Facebook etc. What's the best thing to get? Got a budget of circa £300

Looked at iPads, laptops, netbooks!

Thanks in advance,

OV

jbainbridge

If you take the photos with the iPad - then that will be enough.

If they are on a camera you will need some way of extracting them from the camera - so a laptop / netbook would work better.

You could also use a (Android) tablet that has a micro sd slot and use an adapter to fit the card in your camera.

Orlando_Virgin

So all 3 will be suitable?!

Pinkypants

Tablets are much harder for typing on, but very good battery life and very lightweight.

NiftyDigits

Cheapish Netbook here £113.99

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Cisco001

http://www.johnlewis.com/asus-transformer-book-t100ta-convertible-tablet-laptop-intel-atom-2gb-ram-32gb-windows-8-1-microsoft-office-2013-10-1-touch-screen/p775600?kpid=232472540&s_kenid=3ba4a3e8-a2d4-2bc9-eb49-000054fe9dbf&s_kwcid=ppc_pla&tmad=c&tmcampid=73
Overbudget. But you can use it as both tablet and PC.

Orlando_Virgin

http://www.pcworld.co.uk/gbuk/laptops-netbooks/laptops/laptops/asus-x551ca-sx029h-15-6-laptop-21712971-pdt.html

What are people's opinion on this?

Cisco001

Orlando_Virgin wrote: »

http://www.pcworld.co.uk/gbuk/laptops-netbooks/laptops/laptops/asus-x551ca-sx029h-15-6-laptop-21712971-pdt.html

What are people's opinion on this?

Would it be too big for carry around on holiday?

jaydeeuk1

jbainbridge wrote: »

If you take the photos with the iPad - then that will be enough.

So you're 'that' person?
Online poker - does it use flash/ has a windows/mac only download? Or is there an 'app' for it?

I was going to suggest the asus t100 (I'm getting one for xmas) but get it from america as its about £210 + shipping/VAT, however it doesn't have a rear camera. If you have a phone though, it will be a better camera than most tablets anyway.

If you have a crappy phone, how about something a bit different... The asus padfone 2. Bit out of budget, but does look pretty cool

http://www.saveonlaptops.co.uk/ASUS-PadFone-2-90AT0022-M02970_1346411.html

cinderfella

Tablets are killing off netbooks. No need for virus protection or a firewall. Documents, etc can be uploaded to a cloud service. Get a nice size, say 9 in & you will not need a computer.
Netbooks are very handy but vulnerable to malware & Trojans. You need to run anti virus once a week & update every day, a real pain.
The latest cloud services also supply online office software for free.

jaydeeuk1

cinderfella wrote: »

Tablets are killing off netbooks. No need for virus protection or a firewall. Documents, etc can be uploaded to a cloud service. Get a nice size, say 9 in & you will not need a computer.
Netbooks are very handy but vulnerable to malware & Trojans. You need to run anti virus once a week & update every day, a real pain.
The latest cloud services also supply online office software for free.

Other than the first sentence. Quoi? Are you seriously suggesting something like an ipad can replace a desktop PC? And are you saying that only 'netbooks' are vulnerable to malware/trojans (I'm presuming you mean windows here)?

What an utterly naive post, you're a hackers/criminals dream come true if you seriously believe Android and iOS can't and have never been exploited.