The Snapdragon's in our head! Tweet

This is the year of Dragon according to the Chinese calender. Well now that has so many connections to the tech-scenario we can see around us!
The world is becoming a busier place to live. Time has picked up its pace and we can really feel it.
We no longer have the patience we once had and now everything has to be fast and faster. And so the computers have also been developing hands and legs to run alongside us.

Electronics dictate our lives now. The speed of that semi conductor chip determines the pace of our lives. Day after day faster devices are being designed and it doesn't show any sign of slowing down. but beneath all this pile of gizmos, I can only see the wastefulness of today's society.

Cell Phones were once essential for communication and one of the most important inventions ever. Adding to the bland black and white screen with some colors and a camera was a great idea. Bumping up the memory was great so that we could enjoy some multimedia (no more lugging around the disk-man ) and then things started escalating at light speed.
The Apple iPhone pushed mobiles into a whole new Galaxy (oops) and with that came a bandwagon of companies ready to show off "who got a bigger d**k". It was all about the processors and rams and the screen size.
Pricing was secondary while it was all about getting the features into the phone. I remember reading somewhere about a Chinese teen selling his kidney online for an iPhone and iPad.
The release of iPhone 5 are bringing a fresh slew of cases regarding shoplifting [video below]. I can't digest the fact that gadgets have become so much of a status symbol that people are ready to risk anything to get them.

Advertising has a lot to do with all this. And I have to give them credits for shoving down peoples throats whatever shit they want us to do. Lets pull in the example of Galaxy Note, (people are gonna hate me for this, please comment if you do) that little piece of electronic poop is too big for a phone but too powerless for any worthwhile application, again you can read in my earlier post about laptops/tablets, where I have stated why tablets can never replace computers, well mostly due to the fact that its a joke, a rich kids toy and serves not much of a purpose besides letting you watch HD movies (yea...right...movies) and small games.
The Note which cannot come under the tablet category coz of its small size, is more of an abomination and in any case not much of a productivity thing. For all you out there saying 'I can parallel process and clip out images and stuff' - an ultra-book can jack the crap out of a Note and still not cost so much. Lets also consider the fact that those high end Photoshop and other editing softwares are never gonna reach the tablets, like it is in the computer in this case - Laptops.

They say we are all moving into cloud computing and cloud storage, the most efficient storage method and all but what people miss out is that its the most vulnerable systems ever. Hacking as such has got a lot more complex and with clouds carrying information, we can all forget about the word privacy. More details here!
now who all are with me in agreeing that a ton of crappy unnecessary status updates and tweets have come just coz of girls with smartphones[no offence intended].



And this funny application about which i read in Gizmodo - said to be for women!


And how many people have managed to get themselves into trouble with wrong tweets and updates. all the man hours just wasted on some twerp with loose fingers. (UK tweet arrests and Facebook accident arrests)
And all the celebrities and VIPs getting caught red handed coz of social networking. What a waste...

Now talking about social and psychological implications of gadgets in our lives, I would love to talk about the iPhone 5. There are news about iPhone 5 being the costliest of all smartphones and that the 64 gb version is gonna cost almost $2000 (1 Lac), I bet even the american would be laughing at that outrageous figure. To top it all, the only main reason for buying the phone - the 4G and the browsing speed, is never gonna work here.(India) is this some dare Steve Jobs gave the Apple co in his will? Do they really expect people to follow iPhone as much as they did few years back. But its so sad to note that such a posh phone takes a toll on all the workers in China (Foxconn) for whom assembling these phones were so depressing that they decided to go on a strike (Foxconn strike link Brazil link China link China2). In the 'link china' the article is about 200 Chinese workers threatening suicide, and Chinese workers at Taiyun plant walking out due to low remunerations. Are we enjoying our lives at other peoples cost? How different is this from the blood diamonds in Africa then?

And what about the countless morons who lose days of pay waiting outside the iStores all around so that they can get their hands around that new iPhone 5 (longer than ever). Productivity in these gadgets have improved greatly but at the cost of the productivity of the people!
So much for cult products..

And what about the rising crime. Or the fact that many people are depressed coz of the fact that they can't afford that smartphone they are eyeing on. I always believe, living without satisfaction is equivalent to living like a corpse. And for many that's what is happening. Well talking about crime, it would be a crime if i don't mention the data-leak bug with iPhones and the vulnerability of Android phones. Giving kids these smart phones can jeopardize their safety, with viruses that scan their logs and ping GPS locations, such phones cannot be treated as just tech-toys.


And I observed that the world has moved into newer interests in mining, moving from oil, to gold to uranium now to Rare metals. Now they are usually the lanthanoid/actinoids yttrium and some more elements however whats noteworthy is that 2 nations are intensively researching on them- China and North Korea. And why do we need rare-metals? For the electronics industry! So in fact some of the huge amount of money we spend is going into rogue countries for their development. We wont feel the pinch now, but its gonna hit us soon!

I must also stress on the stagnation in innovations happening today, rather than finding something new and actually adding into a vast pool their patents, the companies try safeguarding their existing patents fighting out an endless war gradually stopping any further developments due to insufficient funding. "Oh wait a minute, we lost all the money in the last court hearing!".

This is not a hate article but a cry, for some sense in the electronics industry today... where are we going people? How serious are we about our gadgets? Should we be so addicted to them? Maybe the "rise of machines" already started. Instead of bionic humanoids we have gadgets that we just cant replace for our daily survival.. what really saddens me is the way they use such phones and applications. With social networking in phones and tons of useless apps productivity is only plummeting, deviating far away from what the smartphones were actually meant for.
PDAs [ancestors of smartphones] were first introduced for intricate and sophisticated industrial application... now it has stooped down to taking pictures of birds and sky... WTF? And we need quad core technology for that.. there is a fine line between functionality and style statement.
One must realize that...

Developing for the sake of growth is different from holistic development, giving back to the society what it has taken. And its the latter that we should follow, fighting with better and practical innovations rather.
For that alone, i should applaud Nokia for the great job they are doing, however the whole concept of smartphones and tablets are getting way out of hands here and its us consumers who should have the reign, not the companies feeding us these gadgets with their mouth-watering advertisements.
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Can games be movies? You think?! Tweet

We love video games, they're fun as hell and sometimes are good learning material. If not for games such as NFS, Gran Turismo etc I wouldn't know how a car works. If not for Call of Duty, Killzone, Battlefield etc I wouldn't know how guns work and what it feels like to be a soldier. That being said, playing games like Resident evil, Max Payne, Doom etc we all think to ourselves "Man, this would make a badass movie" Well, at least I did, many times. And what do we get? Resident Evil: Afterlife, Doom with a "24th" Chromosome, Max Payne with lefty Midget Marky Mark and Mila kunis as Mona sax...WTF?  Well sure, the first 2 Resident Evil movies had some elements that were true to the source material and the movies weren't cheesy. But how can they fuck up Max Payne? The game had good plot, epic characters, lotta action that would look good on the big screen. Watching these shitty movie adaptations (which were agonizing) I thought to myself  "How can these be rectified for future projects?" Hence,besides general essentials for movie making,  I lay down few tips on how to make an epic movie whether loosely or strictly based on a video game (but hey I am no director... so it would seem a li'l narrow minded to professionals)

  

Casting the right actors for the characters
"The first impression is the best impression" We've all heard of that. The actors that play the characters in from the game are the first thing we look for in a trailer.When people saw Mark Wahlberg as Max Payne and Mila Kunis(WTF) as Mona, many got skeptical and jumped to conclusions. Now that is NOT good when it comes to film making. If it's loosely based on the games like the first Resident Evil, where there's no Jill, Leon, Chris or Claire and just fresh character Alice & the T-virus' effects on humans, this doesn't matter. However, an over the top 26 year old playing Wesker in RE:Afterlife, Pretty boy with acting talent at par with a pornstar playing Leon Kennedy...my god, talk about butchering one of the coolest characters in the RE universe. Good thing they didn't mess up Jill, Sienna Guillory was perfect as Jill Valentine. Moreover they must have the voice that suits the game character, need not sound exactly alike. Mark Wahlberg's out-of-breath voice isn't even remotely similar to James McAffrey's cool,deep narrative voice. If you ask me, I would've chosen Bradd Pitt any day. Check out the trailer for "Killing them softly" he still looks like he'd fit the role [In my opinion, of course.]

Do NOT ruin the game storyline

They are called games for a reason, the writing is not gonna be an Oscar worthy masterpiece. If a game's plot is cheesy, over the top then they're just meant to be mindless badass entertainment, like Gears of War, Doom for example.. 
Either don't make a movie and let them remain as epic games or make few reasonable changes  

to the story line and execute it well. Doom's story is pretty cheesy and it's all about mindless fun shooting hell demons that invade mars through a portal!! What were the makers of Doom thinkin? Probably "Alright the recent game Doom 3 seems to be kickin ass in the video game market, Hell let's make a Doom movie with an even cheesier plot, how about a 24th chromosome?" I'm not a big fan of the tomb raider games but judging by the reception of the movies by critics/gamers.... they must have fucked up the game's story line too, i don't know. That being said about games with more action than plot, there are games with intriguing plot such as Resident evil 4, Max payne trilogy, Hitman series, Elder scrolls series etc Hitman movie had good casting but the movie, mehh it's ok and don't get me started on  Max Payne and resident evil post 1&2

Make sure to include game elements

As we play a game, we find certain distinct elements that define it. For eg: Sand demons, rewinding time & puzzles from prince of persia games, Bullet time, shoot dodge & Flashback narration from max payne, Multiple ways in mission completion, disguises from Hitman etc Without these key elements POP wouldn't be POP, Max Payne wouldn't be Max Payne and Hitman wouldn't obviously be Hitman, if made into a movie. And voila... prince of persia had just the dagger of time and NOTHING else, Hitman was a bourne movie with Agent47 instead of Jason Bourne and Max payne,well.....it had reverse shootdodge (diving back in slomo n shootin a person behind him) enough said.

Movie makers/lead actors MUST play the games

After I watched that god awful Resident Evil: Retribution, I bet Paul W.S Anderson never played any of the RE games. In fact, i think he must have just watched IGN/Gamespot walk-through videos on YouTube and then made these movies. Mark Wahlberg clearly mentioned he's never played any of the Max Payne games, good job promoting a video game movie, Mark. Directors, screenplay writers etc of movies based on comics/ novels read the source material before starting the film project hence, no shit....the same thing applies to video game movies as well. I really hope the makers of the Metal gear movie know what they're doing.

CGI or no CGI, Visual appeal must win

We've all been through Mortal Kombat: Annihilation AKA The unwanted MK sequel with the shittiest CGI & fights. I mean, when the Computer Generated Imagery IS the source material... you can't have shitty CGI or other visual FX in the movie adaptation. You're probably tired of me mentioning resident evil like 50 times already, but the 4th & 5th movie in the RE film series had really shitty wire works and pointless Slo-mo!! Hey Paul W.S Anderson, We get it, You're a big Matrix fan... stop using slo-mo everywhere you prick (Sorry got a lil nerd rage there).

And so taking a movie based on a game is not easy, games mean much more to us gamers than just some graphics and objects on a screen, its a second life, a virtual reality and when we don't find those elements in the same movie that took us to places in the game, that's the ultimate crime these directors do... killing the soul of the game they were actually meant to immortalize. This being considered I would comment on my favorite movie that came at par with the game, The batman series! Although some that irritated me was the Harry Potter franchise, i couldn't consider them games, more of another portal to cash in on the actual Harry Potter concept.

Lets hope they make more content rich games and movies that go hand in hand to give us the experience we yearn so much. Games from Tom Clancy have such amazing story lines, I can visualize almost all of them as a movie. Again, its something that rests in the directors hands... 
Bav out! Do post your comments!

The 3D Revolution....Whats in store for us?!! Tweet

Hey!! This is my first post on Technomaniacz! In-fact its my first ever post. So please forgive me if you notice any minuscule sign of inexperience and please forget if there are bigger ones. To be modest, I presume there'll be many. But lets keep my memoirs aside and we'll get to the reason why I'm indulging in this cumbersome job. Recognize the bloke in the picture below?

I would say he was the one who revolutionized the way movie makers saw the 3D technology and its application in mind-boggling movie making. Yep!! Its James Cameroon himself folks!

After his movie "Avatar" hit the screens in 2009 and kept the box-offices all over the globe rigging for the next 12 months people began to see 3D as a new but worthy addition to their movie-watching experience. Consumer Electronic Giants like Samsung, Sony, LG and the lot tried to cash in on this new craze and soon announced an array of products that had Stereoscopic technology as the driving component in them, including the Blu-ray discs and players.

So from then on there was a wild rush from different makers of 3D TVs to grab and control this new market. Samsung and Sony introduced Active 3D technology for 3D Home Entertainment. 

But the consumers who got hold of these flashy TVs were in for a wild shock!! They were supposed to wear heavyset glasses that easily burned a big hole in their pockets. The glasses needed frequent recharges [How could anyone accept this!!] since they worked on batteries and cost INR 3000 on an average.

Soon the spurt in sales that was expected by Samsung and Sony fizzled out. People struck to normal Full HD LED or LCD displays. Just when things began to get difficult for 3D Home Entertainment, LG came up with a wonderful cost effective solution in "The LG Cinema 3D" range of smart television.

Now this is where the confusion arises for a consumer willing to spend his/her hard earned money on a worthy 3D TV.

Today's 3D entertainment dilemma!

Go for the Samsung Smart TV or LG Cinema 3D?!! [We'll leave Sony because it is costlier than Samsung though both use the same Active Filter Technology for 3D Rendering and isn't suitable for an average Indian middle class customer]

The comparison Now.....This is Samsung Smart 3D TV and its 3D glasses...

Now this is how 3D works out in this TV. The eyewear used has infrared or bluetooth sensors with which it connects wirelessly to a 3D LCD TV or 3D LED TV. When the screen shows 3D content, it alternates between two versions of an image. This is done by having a pair of LCD shutters in the eye wear which switch ON and OFF alternatively making sure that only one of them is ON at any given time.

In active technology, however, the two image versions are not displayed at the same time, and there is a tiny lag between the two images. When the images alternate on the screen, the glass lenses alternate between being opaque and transparent. So when the right eye receives input for an image shown on screen, the left eye does not receive any input.

This happens at a very high speed, as a result of which the brain does not have time to perceive a flicker in the images. As the closing and opening is timed in sync with on-screen images, each eye views only one version of the image. A stereoscopic sync connector is plugged into an infrared (IR) emitter. This emitter transmits signals to the 3D glasses using active lenses. This helps the lens synchronize with 3D content on screen.

Manufacturers have started incorporating this technology in their television units only recently. This is because most of the older plasma and LCD television models had low refresh rates as a result of which this technology could not be employed in them.

Refresh rate is the speed with which a screen replaces images and when this is low, the viewers will be able to detect a flicker when they use these glasses. But in most of the latest television models, the refresh rates are high and viewers can enjoy a great 3D experience.

The Main drawback of this method is the Image Flickering. This can easily cause headache and nausea and the heavy glasses can make your nose deeper. That might affect the girls seeing that they don't want their facial complexion altered.

And the cost which is the main factor. The Basic active 3D glasses for Samsung model starts at INR 1300 [Refresh rate of 120 HZ] and climb upto INR 5000 based on their refresh rate. How can an Indian family of 4 and above afford this??!

Now this is where LG exhibits its commonsense. This is LG Cinema 3D TV and its passive polarised filter glasses.

The Pink thing above [Urgh!] will win any girl's heart. Its a passive 3D glass that you get with LG Cinema 3D.

The colorful array of glasses that you see below are not sun glasses but they are passive 3D glasses again!! Cool!! Aren't they?! This is where LG Scores above Samsung and here is how they achieved it.... 3D TVs employing polarization are used with polarized glasses, whose lenses filter light waves that are polarized in a specific direction.

Unlike Samsung Displays LG developed this display that is capable of polarising in two ways.

Only light polarized in a way compatible with either lens is allowed through each of them, as a result of which, each eye perceives only one set of images. The images are then processed by the brain in the same manner as it does for real life images. The working is similar to Theatrical 3D exhibition which is cheap.

One advantage of polarized glasses is that image details and colours shown by them are similar to that of real life 3D content. Polarized glasses offer viewing experience that is among the best in different 3D technologies. Another advantage of using these glasses is that they are relatively cost effective as they make use of passive technology.

With polarized glasses, users can also conveniently shift between 2D and 3D viewing experiences.

And the Cost?!! Well if you have just INR 100 bucks then pay a trip to our very own Ritchie Street, Chennai, where you'll find these in even better designs and more attractive colours. OR just pay a visit to your nearby multiplex and watch a 3D movie. Keep the glasses with you as a memorabilia if the movie is good or do the same to compensate your money if its a bad one [Do this at your own risk].

Therefore I'd rather go for the LG Cinema 3D (4X" costs around INR 90,000) than a Samsung Smart (4X" costs around INR 85,000 plus INR 5000 or more for those uncomfortable looking glasses).

So folks I hope this post comes in handy when you plan to buy your very Own 3D Entertainment system. 

Adios for Now....! 

Will be Back Soon with more..                                                                                                                        

 

Sleeping Dogs: Square Enix goes Oriental! Tweet

I have played as whites [GTA VC] , blacks [GTA SA] , Italians [Mafia II], Russians[GTA 4] and I was wondering, when the Chinese version was coming. I guess they waited for all the good games to release and as always ripped off the good parts from each. This may seem amusing, but seriously, there is no better explanation than that. They did follow the true philosophy of China - Copy and prosper! [Confucius says!]

The game is a 3rd person open-world sandbox, very similar to Grand Theft Auto, fully customized into a Chinese version of the world. We have already seen a Thai version in Just Cause 2, which was again from Square Enix and I have a hunch they might have used the same game engine. 

Now for the ripping part, this game predominantly strains on the character's martial arts skills rather than "ni**as with guns" attitude. So you have more of close quarter combats, knuckles to face types of battles which are pretty neat however not new. For all those who have played Batman Arkham Asylum and City, this game may just bring some nostalgic feelings. There are countless combos to master and the worst part is - most of them don't work on time. The block key usually fail and you end up chicken dancing in front of your chowmein-eating brawler! 

*Cantonese accent* "Someone get the karaoke on! this Ham ga tsan is dancing here" 

So the game has its version of chases and racing and parkour movements and shooting[I'm sure they simulated cheap Chinese guns, it just doesn't work!]. 

About the parkour, its very similar to Assassins Creed and a lot of bits and pieces from L A Noire [chasing the bad guy while you climb and jump your way through the obstacles]. While driving, you can jump onto the next car and hijack that vehicle, although with trucks it gets a little tricky [practice makes perfect!]. Reminded me a lot about the hijacking in Just Cause 2, minus the rope tricks. 

However the story is really interesting, for the most part because its a whole new theme for such an Open-sandbox. Of course for us Indians, this is nothing new, half of our movies run on the same story. The Chinese theme really kicked in the flavors and made the game a lot more colorful compared to its american counter parts. I could also smell a bit of Saints Row theme in this game with the myriad of costumes and gears [especially auto] you get in this game. 

Although the game is highly immersive, certain elements can really bug a gamers. One such example would be the experience points - Cop side and Triad side. One can collect the Triad side points real easy while for the Cops side, even a small dink on a parking meter would void your efforts to get a clean 3 shield finisher. It's irritating to find that keeping both the progression at an equal pace is turning out to be such a herculean task!

Like the gyms in GTA San Andreas, you can find martial arts school here and learn new techniques. With the points you gain from the missions, you can unlock upgrades in combat skills and other skills from Cops and Triads [Again another rip off from Batman AC]. More copies from Batman include hacking CCTV cameras to nail bad-guys [More like hacking in Arkham City]. God! did they copy everything?!

You can find certain elements like "Shrines" and "Suitcases" which boosts your health and finance respectively. These suitcases are often guarded by local goons, so a short spell of fist-fight is required to get your hands on the moolah. 

Then there are countless stores selling "Dragon's Kick" sodas and Herbal Tea which improves your melee attacks and health for a brief period of time. I was intrigued by the "dragon's kick" and its effect, got me thinking - can Coke improve your fighting skills? And then you also have countless street vendors with their noodle and pork-buns, all giving you a tiny health boost. It would be a crime if I missed the massages, for all you out there who played the game - you know what i'm talking about!. For the no-knows, the massage sharpens your senses and increases the rate of your face-meter[I'll let you discover the 'but how?' yourself]. Now the face-meter is something new and interesting in this game. By helping people and beating up bad guys, you get to assert your position and command some respect amongst the commoners. After a while people call you by your name, its an experience!

This game has copied the dance sessions and hydraulic dancing in San Andreas with the Karaoke nights. Girls are aplenty in this game and sometimes you can eavesdrop on interesting conversations about their boyfriends and umm.. the rest of the gibberish. 

Missions are exciting, however buggy game-play makes it painful to play in certain missions. Environmental graphics in this game is more artistic and the in-game physics is decent. Although the controls and game-play takes some getting used to. For example, while driving, as you approach maximum speed, your screen starts to quake inducing a nauseating feeling [especially in 3D] and the mouse control while driving makes the screen swing to either sides uncontrollably. The controls on the keyboard are a pain, in one case - the vehicle access key is RMB and the aim key is E. Most of us are used to Aiming with RMB, and during high speed chases end up clicking that by mistake, ejecting out of the vehicle![Restart Checkpoint!]

Playing this game is a mixed reaction, just like this review. The game is warm and welcoming but the bugs make it a pain to play [at certain points]. For a scrapped project being given a second chance, well, its commendable. But as a mainstream game, a little more polished game-play would have made this game an experience - one of a kind! And of all the proverbs, this one stands out the most - "One man's loss is another man's gain"...Activision, you should have thought about this again....

I would give this game 7.5/10

[Just for the confusion of which side I am actually on!]

What do you think!
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Ta-B or Lapto-P, that is the Question! Tweet

Although a line from the age old Shakespearean play - Hamlet, its more of a one line representation of the doubt most of us buyers have in mind before buying a Tablet/Laptop.

Life was simple with just PC and Laptops. If I needed portability I went for a Laptop and if I needed raw computing power I went for PC. And then things started getting crazy. The Tablets hit the market and so did ultra-books and other mainstream notebooks. Today we have Quad-core Tablets and Core i7 powered Laptops [is it that necessary?]. 

So what suits your usage? A laptop or a tablet? 
Here are some criteria you would like to check up before you make that arduous decision. 

Why Tablet:

Portability:
This is pretty much an obvious statement. The first thing that strikes in anyone's mind, when mentioning portability is a tablet. A tablet is compact compared to a Laptop and if you are required to carry around the device for multimedia and browsing then a Tablet would be most appropriate for your needs.

Battery:
The battery life of a Tablet surpasses a Laptop in many levels. Firstly, the processors and other hardwares used in a Laptop is not as energy efficient as the ones you may find in a tablet. Of course one should also note that the tablet applications don't require much resource compared to the Laptop applications and also the screen size coupled with AMOLED displays in certain variants optimizes the battery consumption, allowing a longer usage time.

Virus/BSOD:
This is an extremely good point as Tablets, apart from some spywares [which one can avoid by installing apps carefully] don't suffer from problems related to Viruses and Malware attacks. Also a Laptop, running on Windows, are sometimes prone to the BSOD [Blue Screen]. However a tablet user don't have to bother about that, since the Tablet's resources and OS is optimized for such an event.

Interface:
The touch screen interfacing is one of the most user-friendly interface available. Compared to lugging around an optical mouse because the touch-pad is just not sensitive or big enough, a tablet spreads out an interface the size of its screen and with an optimized layout, using them is a breeze. 





NFC:
This is already available in Tablets [such as Nexus 7] and pretty handy to share data and connect devices. The InstaWifi is one of the examples, where by tapping the phone to another phone, the other phone can share the WiFi settings. However there are news that Windows 8 supports NFC. Although NFCs for laptops are far-fetched compared to Tablets. 

Durable and Cheap:
The Tablets are much more durable the a Laptop and with a case added, one don't need to be too careful. Particularly useful in case you are not too careful with your gadgets. And with the added Gorilla Glass display they are absolutely solid devices compared to a Laptop, which when dropped, may even result in data-loss. Also a Tablet is much cheaper than a Laptop [in case of low end tablets]. Read about which tablet suits you the most!

Why Laptops:

Computing Power: 
The Tablets come with the quad core exynox 1.5 GHz processor, which is the maxed out version. However compared to Tablets, the Laptops usually start out with a Core i3 2.2 GHz Dual core [4 threads, hence 2 virtual cores] which gives us much more computing power. For the same price, A laptop may come with a good i5 processor and a decent GPU. Which has way more power when compared to Tablets [especially in terms of HD videos and animations]. The RAM in laptops are much greater and runs application with more fluidity.

Applications:
Even though the Play Store and App Store has an exhaustive list of applications, core applications still need a proper Computer to run on. Example, the mobile version of Photoshop and Auto-cad looks like a joke when compared to the actual software. Also, the games on a Laptop is different from the games on a Tablet. A laptop has the resource to handle games much more advanced compared to a Tablet [Although that margin of difference is reducing].

Multitasking:
Even if android is deemed as an OS capable of Multi-tasking, it still lacks the ability to facilitate seamless transitions through applications and also one cannot work on 2 or more simultaneous applications like a PC/Laptop. Thus this can be a let down considering the fact that most of us do use multitasking without realizing it, and are bound to feel the pinch if you are solely relying on a Tablet.

Connection Ports:
A Laptop comes with Ethernet port, HDMI, DVI ports which allows a user to access many functionally important devices and networks. An example would be joining a Local LAN where the only available option is using an Ethernet cable [Considering many offices still have Ethernet for LAN] and let's not forget that an Ethernet is still faster than WiFi. Connecting the printer to a laptop is a breeze compared to a Tablet, with which one can interface devices only through a WiFi bridge. Also connecting a Laptop to a projector is no hassle compared to a Tablet although a few have HDMI output facility. And, multiple USB connections through a tablet is not as easy as the ones on a Laptop, considering one needs a whole bundle of Cables and Hubs before actually setting up the connection. 

Extensive Storage:
A laptop offers storage incomparable to Tablet. Laptops now come with 1 TB of hard disks and some offer SSD rather than the typical HDD compared to the maximum of 64 GB one can push the Tablets to. The files read/write speeds in a Laptop is much faster compared to a Tablet and both have the added advantage of cloud storage accessibility. 

Multi-booting: 
A laptop is capable of handling Windows and Linux OS through dual-booting. Although android supports dual booting through various custom ROMs, it cannot boot another OS. In this case, even if Windows has crashed due to viruses/malwares using the Linux OS we can clean off the Laptop and also the current version of Linux Ubuntu and Red Hat is as user friendly and eye catching as the Windows 7. 




Full Keyboards and High Res Display:

The full keyboard in a Laptop makes typing easier compared to a Tablet's onscreen keyboard, while the typical laptop display provides a higher resolution and screen size compared to a Tablet. Also physical keyboards are most responsive. And unlike a tablet, the keyboard doesn't require a share of the screen and enables the user to have full display at all times. This is very important for people in the writing field, where more visibility is always better for some proof-reading and editing.





[Read more about Android PCs here]
They say Tablets are replacing Laptops and PCs, but I would comment that as more of a mass hallucination. Laptops and PCs can outperform the Tablets, but the portability of a Tablet is something that makes it so desirable and popular. With developments taking place at light speed, we can only wait and watch. 
At the end, its all upto you!

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