<p>Hello!</p>
<p>I currently own Samsung Q411 laptop and have been using it well.</p>
<p>Right now, I got a Nexus 7 tablet as a gift from my friend.</p>
<p>Is tablet a good replacement for the laptop in terms of college courses and life?</p>
<p>No. Tablets are fine and all, but laptops are a lot more convenient and better able to handle the work load of college courses & projects, or at least from my experience.</p>
<p>I was torn over this but went with a netbook and am quite pleased with it. This is what most everyone here uses. They’re light, inexpensive, and fit on even absurdly small desks. I do see a few with tablets, but you want a real keyboard and easy use of things like SPSS. That would be too cumbersome with a tablet, same with those using them for e-books. For something more CPU intensive, there are public desktops all over campus, and i keep one in my room also.</p>
<p>I have a 11.5 or 12.1 (forgot which one) netbook. I’ve had it for like 3 years now, and it’s getting pretty annoying not being able to do real work on it because of the small screen. All I do on here is surf the net and write stuff in MS word, which is a shame.</p>
<p>No, a tablet is not a good replacement for a laptop. And I would not recommend only using a netbook either (they’re too small). If you want to be able to do all the work you’ll be expected to do on one computer, then a laptop is a far better option than either a netbook/tablet. Most people (at my college, at least) who have tablets/netbooks only have them to use in class because they’re lighter/small/easier to carry around than laptops. I’ve never met anyone who exclusively uses either of them for their work. Most people have regular laptops (and a minority use desktops).</p>
<p>Tablet is more comfortable and became very popular especially among the college students. It is east to carry but tablet is not a replacement of laptop.</p>
<p>I use an Alienware netbook, and I think it’s the best of all worlds. Small enough to carry around and fit on tiny university desks, but enough power to run any modern games or CPU-intensive programs I want. I just use an HDMI cord to connect it to my TV when I’m in my dorm. </p>
<p>Even if you can’t afford an Alienware, I highly suggest a semi-powerful netbook with HDMI output.</p>
<p>Also, to me, a tablet is just something you have on the side. I could not imagine having just a tablet without a PC; It’s insane. If you’re dead-set on one, at least go Android over Apple.</p>
<p>Tablets don’t replace laptops, and in my opinion laptops don’t even replace PCs, because I find laptops too weak, unreliable and obviously the screens are much too small.</p>
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<p>Maybe in 2006. Laptops aren’t necessarily less powerful, just much more expensive to make more powerful. PC’s don’t have bigger screens. They just hook up to monitors, which a laptop is equally as capable of doing. Especially now that most of the good ones have decent ports.</p>
<p>Besides, in college you’re gimped without a laptop.</p>
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<p>Except from a cost standpoint that makes no sense. When you consider a desktop (with a monitor) and laptop of equal specs, the desktop will cost far less less. Then you’d have money left over to buy a netbook for portable use. That’s what I did and it turned out to be a great decision. But I build my desktop which saved me even more money.</p>
<p>Man, you OP’s better be lucky I have finals I’m under the guise of studying for and no attention span. What would you people do without me?</p>
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<p>Except from a practical standpoint from the viewpoint of a student that makes no sense. Yeah, it’s cheaper to build a desktop. I built one that could run Crysis (that used to mean something) for a little over $600 as a teen. However, buying both a desktop and a netbook at the same time, instead of just shopping around and finding an i7 laptop with a Radeon card for $600, isn’t cost efficient or space efficient. A decent gaming desktop is going to cost at least $600, even if you build it yourself with parts from Newegg. Then he has to buy the netbook on top of that. What’s the point? By that same logic, he could just get a game console and a netbook. That would be the most cost efficient, but the graphics and resolution just don’t compare. Plus he couldn’t use mods.</p>
<p>We don’t even know if he has the space for a giant desktop computer on his floor. If the guy is considering a tablet, he’s probably not that worried about power anyway. We’re talking practical. He should have a balance between power, convenience, and cost. Pulling $200 out of your desktop PC budget to also buy a netbook doesn’t strike a balance between any of those three.</p>