The best notebooks for leisure - purchase advice

Tablets are fully up-to-date. Since the triumph of the Apple iPad, it is considered a smart, easy to wipe over the display, instead of using the mobile device as before with keyboard and touchpad. With Windows 8 hybrid devices is synonymous. Because they can easily turn into a tablet, the operation of the Windows 8 start screen and the Metro apps is also fun.


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Compared to the iPad or the many Android tablets, the Windows 8 devices have a decisive advantage: They are not only tablets, but also normal Windows 8 notebooks with the option of running almost all familiar Windows programs. This also distinguishes it from the tablets with Windows RT and ARM processors. These are only interesting, if you want to use only the Metro 2013 as well as the preinstalled Office 2013. Normal Windows programs can not be installed on RT devices. As a result, RT equipment has so far sold only poorly. Microsoft still sticks to Windows RT and hopes for a higher level of acceptance when the Windows Store fills with more attractive apps.


Various designs: Detachables and Convertibles


In the case of the Windows 8 hybrid tablets, there are in principle two different designs: detachables and convertibles. Detachables are lightweight tablets with an additional docking keyboard that turns them into mini notebooks. Many of these devices have a second battery, which doubles the runtime in Notebook mode. Microsoft is using the Surface Pro with the keyboard a somewhat different way. The extremely flat keyboard without battery is at the same time the display cover, the attachment is magnetic. Detachables are ideal for users looking for the easiest device to use as a tablet for Metro apps, but also the ability to use traditional Windows programs.


Atom-Langlauf or Core-Sprinter


For convertibles, the keyboard is not removable: these devices are more suitable for users who are looking for a full-fledged ultrabook that can also serve as a tablet. If you want to use the device as a digital notepad or a drawing board, you should use a device with a digitizer and stylus.


In most of the detachables, an Intel Atom CPU takes over the computing work. Exceptions here are the Microsoft Surface Pro, the Samsung ATIV Smart PC Pro and the Acer Iconia W700, which are based on Intel core processors. The Atom CPUs of the Clover Trail series are noticeably faster than the Atom CPUs of the netbook era, but nevertheless only for Apps, Office and for surfing usable. For this, atomic tablets with recharge times can reach the eight hours. Devices with a core CPU offer the full Ultrabook performance, but they often run out after half the time. In addition, they are priced at between 800 and 1700 Euros a good bit more expensive than atomic devices, which you get with keyboard dock from about 600 euros.