New Card 9: ED6060 ICT in Education
2012 (Wed 2, Jan)
A full-time laptop meets a part-time tablet
The biggest hardware trend marking the launch of Windows 8 is the
proliferation
of touch-screen laptop/tablet hybrids. Some have screens that pull
apart to become separate tablets, while others have screens that flip, twist,
or rotate to give you a tabletlike shape to hold. We call those latter models
convertible laptops, and one of the best examples to date is the new Lenovo
IdeaPad Yoga 13. The name Yoga is suggestive of the system's big selling point,
that the display flips fully over to become a tablet. In fact, it has four
basic usable positions -- clamshell laptop, tablet, stand, and tent. The reason
the Yoga stands out from the suddenly crowded touch-screen laptop scene is that
it does something other convertible or hybrid laptops do not. When set up as a
traditional laptop, the 13.3-inch Yoga doesn't compromise the all-important clamshell
experience. The excellent double-hinge design means that it looks and works the
same as any other ultrabook laptop, unlike the complex and often clunky
mechanisms in systems such as the
HP Envy x2,
Sony Vaio Duo
11, or
Dell XPS 12.The
Yoga works best as a full-time laptop and part-time tablet, because when it's
folded back into a slate, you still have the keyboard pointing out from the
back of the system. Although the keyboard and touch pad are deactivated in this
mode, it's still not ideal. Plus, despite the hype, Windows 8 is still not a
100-percent tablet-friendly OS, and
there are
some frustrations that span all the Windows 8 tablet-style devices
we've tested.
Mrs.Pantharee Xanthavanij
ID:
551-9515 (panthareex.blogspot.com)
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