For really long battery life (and enhanced portability) in a budget laptop, you may want to look to a smaller - screen laptop -
tablet hybrid such as the 11 - inch Asus Transformer Mini (14:14), although you may take a performance hit as well as losing some features
Not exact matches
The analyst believes
tablets are likely to expand their usefulness beyond the living room / bedroom in the near future, with usage patterns being shaken up by a variety of factors including enterprise / workplace adoption of
tablets; the diversification of form factors (
such as smaller
tablets and phablets, touchscreen laptops and «netvertibles»,
hybrid devices and other new forms); as well as the roll out of 4G cellular services and more cellular data bundles.
The market does not seem to be ready for
such a
hybrid tablet / notebook just yet, and the high price tag and low battery life of the Surface Pros helped lead to its lukewarm response.
The galaxy tab will be a sucess because it's coming out around the holiday season, I've read alot of remarks that froyo is not truly intended for
tablets which is true but many people are missing the point here; this is a
hybrid tablet more or less & its being produced exactly as
such... that is the reason all four carriers jumped aboard... convience, convience, convience is the selling point & u hav to applaud samsung for trying, be honest a dell streak (5 inches / phone capabilities) or a samsung tab (7 inches / phone capabilities)... Get the point???
Dell markets smaller
tablets,
such as the Dell Streak 7, and a
hybrid product, the Inspiron Duo, in the U.S. but has yet to launch a
tablet design that rivals the 9.7 - inch iPad from Apple.
Offering low - powered Intel Atom
tablet / laptop
hybrids for $ 750 or more is a dodgy proposition for budget - looking systems
such as the Iconia W510, but all - day battery life is a great selling point.
With the release of Windows 8, that is suited for both laptops as well as touchscreen
tablets, these Laptop and
Tablet hybrids are back with a bang and the Lenovo ThinkPad Twist is one
such convertible Ultrabook PC.
These are the Samsung's 2 - in1
hybrid tablets running Windows,
such as the Galaxy Book.
Back then the feature was designed to make switching between
tablet and desktop mode a fluid, seamless experience on
hybrid devices
such as the Surface
tablets.