Why tablet computer

You can also find games to add to your fun. Having touch-based controls on a tablet forces developers to get creative, leading to truly unusual gaming.

Games are not the only thing you can download into your tablet. Love to read the news and stay on top of current events? Download a few news apps. Love to tweet and spend all day on Facebook? Grab some social networking apps to stay in contact with friends. You want Gmail?

It feels like Windows Phone 7 is trying too hard. Although it might sound like built-in tools present a lot of usability, what Microsoft is actually doing is limiting the user by pushing them into particular usage scenarios.

The user has little freedom to adapt the phone to their way of working without a significant amount of tedious configuration. Apple has a habit of opening up markets for other manufacturers. What about Crysis 2? Tablets may have their place in the world, but playing real games to the fullest will always require a discrete GPU-backed PC.

How much work can you do on one of these things? Do they run Photoshop? How long will it take to render video? My guess is that my desktop PC, with its overclocked to 4. And movies look great on them! As for movies, well, I prefer watching them on with a proper setup—Blu-ray player, big screen TV, surround sound, the works—as opposed to watching them cramped on a train, or even hunched over in bed.

It's one thing to describe something to students, but it's something else entirely to provide sharp, visual images that children can interact with. For example, teachers can reinforce the study of the human body by showing pictures of what the skeleton, heart and lungs look like using an app that allows them to click on body parts to see them up close.

Students might also use their tablets to present a fact-filled visual report about certain animals, the International Society for Technology in Education notes, and students can also interact with some of the visual images they're seeing, which further enhances learning. For example, students might touch a picture and get a list of facts about what they're seeing, or sort items, such as spelling words, by dragging and dropping them into separate columns.

Apps such as a graphing calculator or camera can be downloaded to the tablet to further enhance classroom instruction. Tablets allow students to collaborate inside and outside of the classroom.