 Form Factor and Design- Factoring size and weight, battery life, plus durability.
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- 5 out of 5
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- Their extra small size and light weight let you take
them places you might not take a laptop
- Great for traveling
- Slip easily in a purse, briefcase or backpack
- Long battery life
- Provide a range of virtual or “soft” keyboards
- Must rest on your lap, or be held in hand
- Power up very fast
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- 4 out of 5
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- A range of portable sizes and weights offer a great
alternative to desktop computing
- A broader array of features lets you do things on the
go you can’t always do with a tablet
- Their hard keyboard is often preferred for
productivity
- More mobile protection thanks to our exclusive
EasyGuard® Technology and PC Health Monitor
- Can take longer to power up
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- Connecting and Communicating
- Emailing, surfing the Internet, chatting, videoconferencing and more.
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- 4 out of 5
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- Ideal if you’re looking to chat, email, browse and do
social networking
- Good for keeping your kids entertained in the car,
on vacation, or at home
- 4G and Wi-Fi® available on select models
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- 5 out of 5
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- More communication choices, versatility and
workspace make laptops better for extensive
downloading, videoconferencing and Web research
- You can expand your connectivity with Wireless-N
and 3G broadband on some of our laptop models
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- Gaming
- Including everything from extreme 3D action to casual or online play.
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- 3 out of 5
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- Suitable for light, Web-based gaming
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- 4 out of 5
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- If you’re a serious mobile gamer, a laptop is what
you need
- Many of our models have integrated graphics
offering economical gaming power
- Diehard 3D gamers will want models with brawnier
dedicated (discrete) graphics
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- Getting Things Done
- At home or the office, in school, or anywhere in between.
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- 2 out of 5
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Tablets are great for simply:
- checking emails and newsfeeds
- sharing and enjoying videos, photos and playlists
- searching and browsing the Web
- updating your online calendar or social
networking accounts
- blogging
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- 5 out of 5
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When it’s time to use serious software for work, school or home finances, look to a laptop for:
- crunching numbers, or performing major
accounting tasks
- producing big presentations
- working with large documents
- editing movies and slideshows
- developing graphic designs, websites and other
media-rich creations
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- Expanding What You Can Do
- Working with other devices to share, scale up and build out your mobile computing.
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- 3 out of 5
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You’ll be surprised at how versatile and expandable tablets can be. They enable you to:
- download apps and widgets that broaden what you
can do and enjoy
- dock to take advantage of big displays and external
speakers—for entertainment, presentations or
productivity
- use digital pens and wireless keyboards for added
comfort and efficiency
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- 5 out of 5
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Laptops let you expand and share just as you would with a tablet, but with a far wider range of options, like:
- enjoying HD entertainment on a
home theater
- docking to build out a constructive desk-based
computing system with printers, scanners, monitors
and more
- doing high-speed back-ups
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- Enjoying Digital Entertainment
- Including photos, TV music, HD movies, videos and more.
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- 3 out of 5
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A tablet is great for looking at or playing back multimedia on the go. That includes:
- viewing or posting pictures and videos
- listening to music
- watching online clips
- enjoying Web-based movies
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- 5 out of 5
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You’ll need a laptop if you want to:
- consume 3D content
- create photo albums
- watch DVD movies
- edit home video
- enjoy RPG, 3D or FPS gaming
- build playlists
- schedule and record TV
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- Storing It All
- Keeping your critical work and personal files, your school assignments, multimedia and more.
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- 2 out of 5
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Though small, some of our tablets do offer various types of storage capacity.
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- 5 out of 5
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If you’re looking for a place to hold everything in your growing digital life, think laptop
- Our models offer up to 1.5TB of storage
- Faster and even more reliable solid state drives are
available, too
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- Price
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- 4 out of 5
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Tablets are very affordable, but can be more expensive than some entry-level laptops.
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- 5 out of 5
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Depending on features and performance, laptops are offered with variety of price points to fit even the strictest budget.
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