netbook or tablet

[ReadyMan]

My wife is going to be doing a lot of traveling and needs a lighter option than her heavy laptop.
She wants to buy a netbook, but I've been holding off until the MS tablets show up.
Are any MS tablets on the near horizon or is it going to be apple/android for a while yet?

She needs net access and does all her work thru a VPN connection to her office.

Any recommendations?

Thanks!

RM

[Aus-RED-5]

Gigabyte S1080 is a tablet device that offers Win7 on it.
I'm sure there are others out there with MS OS.

[FireFox]

There are other options out there for MS OS tablets. The question is what is she going to use it for mainly?

There was also this hybrid type of Netbook/tablet I saw in my research were it is a netbook but you can flip over the screen in its frame and then it functions as a tablet sort of best of both worlds, OS Win 7. Problem thou is most of the tablets out there are atom based and thus making them a bit slow or seem sluggish but battery life is rather good. Thus it really depends on what is important computing power or battery life and go from there.

I personally have a Asus EEE EP121 and love it but is rather on the pricey side and battery life takes a hit as it's a core i5 processor. It is also a bit heavier than some of its counterparts but that is because it is a 12.1" not 10" like most tablets. But it works for me in the environment I use is it as I'm not away from a power source for longer than its battery life of about 3 hours on balanced mode and if you push it to power save mode I'm guessing 5 hours depending on what you do with it and whether or not you are using it the whole time.

Here is the link to my post about the options I was looking at, at that time. There should be more option now thou.

[ReadyMan]

Thanks for the replies!

Seems tablets havent caught up to their price yet, especially the windows versions.
I bought her an Acer aspire one 722-bz480 netbook
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2390472,00.asp

Costco had them for $325 (target had a sale on them last month for $250 and they sent you a $50 gift card, so $200...dunno if that was a one time thing, but slick deals had an ad on it).
11.6 screen
3 lbs
2gb RAM
1mb cache on an amd dual core
320 HD

Not too shabby...I couldnt talk her into a small laptop, as the weight was the issue.

Having seen so many tablets, I'd sure like to get one, but dont want to be stuck on a mac os, or android for that matter (I have an android phone, which is great for a phone).

Seems like MS is missing the boat big time when it comes to tablets...

thanks again for the links!

[Sirius]

There are a couple problems with Windows-based tablets; the first is that the usability isn't that great compared to other tablets (until next version anyway) and thus they have limited consumer appeal. The second stems from that - there isn't a huge variety out there yet.

[BUBBALOU]

Windows based tablets will be a good choice when windows 8 launches

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