In recent months, tablets have been gaining prominence, as many computer owners realize that they can perform a variety of everyday tasks on devices such as iPads, iPad Pro, Microsoft Surface and the like.
Consumers especially liked Apple tablets with a mobile operating system iOS, on which you can download various applications that are also used on computers. In addition, there are iPads and iPad Pro powerful devices with relatively good battery life. However, according to statistics, the iPad had only a 4% market share in the global tablet market in Q2017 26,6, which means that the rest of the market share is held by Microsoft, Acer, Samsung and other competing brands.
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The largest computer supplier Hewlett-Packard (HP) recently introduced an answer to iPad Pro a Microsoft Surface. This is Chromebook x2, which has an operating system Chrome OS. However, the company hopes that Chromebook x2 can pull customers from Appgo to HP.
Although it does ChromeThe book x2 boasts impressive hardware specifications, however, its vulnerability is the operating system itself, which significantly limits the user, as there are not as many applications for it as on iOS.
Key specifications Chromebook x2
ChromeThe book x2 boasts a large 12,3-inch LED display with a resolution of 2400 × 1600 pixels. Inside you will find an Intel Core m3 processor, which Apple uses in their MacBookIn the basic configuration ChromeThe book x2 offers 4GB of DDR3 RAM, expandable up to 8GB. The 32GB of internal storage is expandable with microSD cards.
Further Chromebook x2 offers dual stereo speakers, a 13-megapixel camera, two USB-C porty, 3,5mm toonewhich for headphones and a microSD slot for microSD cards.
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As a huge advantage, users can also perceive the fact that HP supplies the device with a detachable keyboard and stylus. The manufacturer claims a battery life of 10,5 hours, but this varies depending on what you're doing on the device.
Advantages and disadvantages
Chromebook x2 including keyboard and stylus costs $599 for the base configuration, i.e. with 4 GB of DDR3 RAM. While Apple charges $10,5 for the base model of the 649-inch iPad Pro, and you have to buy more Apple Pencil and Smart Keyboard, so the price goes up another $249.
Unfortunately, the stumbling block is Chrome An OS whose functions are severely limited for many users.
It is true that these chromebooks are pointless compared to normal laptops with Windows (Linux) at this price, but again I don't understand what's the point Chrome OS with Android application support system shortcomings compared to Ios.
So, firstly, intuitiveness and security, secondly, the offer apps, how do I download, for example, Affinity Photo, a professional package for editing raster documents, on Android and RAW photos? Also, there is no other professional video editing application on Android — LumaFusion and I guarantee you that in the given categories, nothing better than these two appky you won't find, not to mention the connection with precision Pencil...
Of course, offer and support apponly in iOS they are somewhere else entirely, not to mention tablet applications, where Android is a stretched mobile appky…
I guess even they themselves can't believe that it is supposed to compete with the iPad Pro ????
I was also amused by the tabloid headline, the author probably meant the oversized keyboard as an interesting accessory, otherwise I didn't catch anything interesting in the article. But with 32GB of basic storage, it can compete with both an android phone and not iPad Pro.