...Laptop Versus Tablet: Which One To Buy Brittney Yingling Prof. Jimmie Flores CIS 109: Intro to Mgt.Info Systems 10/24/2015 The laptop versus tablet battle is one that has left many consumers stuck choosing both and with the tablet market growing rapidly each year consumers are have begun to question whether they actually need a laptop. Laptops are intended to be mobile desktop computers and are built with powerful enough hardware to accommodate productivity on the go. Tablets are handheld devices that are mainly used to watch videos and browse the internet. Laptops are generally for content creation while tablets are meant for content consumption. “Laptop vs Tablet. (n.d.). Retrieved October 25, 2015.” There are many factors to consider when choosing to purchase a laptop or a tablet, including price (how much can I afford and how much am I willing to spend?), size/portability (will I be carrying this around or will it sit on a desk?), battery life (how often will I need to charge my device?), features (what features are essential to me?), lifespan (how long am I planning to keep the device/how long will the device function properly?), operating system/software/apps (what are my software requirements and how will this integrate with my other devices?). Laptops are generally pricier than tablets. A laptop may cost between $600 to $1500, depending on brand and features. The average tablet will run between $200 and $800...
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...When purchasing a laptop or a tablet, there is a lot to take into consideration. Some of the main factors that you should consider include pricing, size, operating system, weight, and even daily use. There are a lot of differences and between laptops and tablets and a consumer should start by determining what the tablet or the laptop will be utilized for, for how long, and who will use it. When choosing between a laptop and a tablet, you have to remember that tablets are more for content consumption. While laptops are generally for creating content. An example of this would be someone who wants to build a website, write a book, or even create videos, or play computer games will need a more robust computer. The reason is that the person would want a laptop with better graphics card, faster processor, and even more memory. Tablets are used for less intensive work or applications. This would include browsing the web, checking email, or even just checking Facebook. Also, tablets are easier to use and simpler to become familiar with in general, and are not age specific and do not have a large learning curve. This is because of a touchscreen. A user can simple tap, flick, or swipe and not use a conventional keyboard or mouse. This makes the tablet feel natural to use. Pricing is a factor to consider when purchasing a laptop or a tablet. Pricing is always going to be a key factor. Tablets are usually cheaper, and prices could start as low as $49, however depending on make and model...
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...LAPTOP VERSUS TABLET: WHICH ONE TO BUY Laptop Versus Tablet: Which One to Buy Wiley Hatchett Introduction to Management Information Systems Professor Edwin Otto October 25, 2015 The main factors that you should consider before you decide to buy a laptop or a tablet are cost, memory, keyboard and mouse, touch screen and screen size. Laptops can come with more internal memory and have the ability to have external hard drives, where tablets come also with internal memory and some have the ability to add expandable memory up to a certain size. Laptops have a keyboard and touch pad and tablets are touch screens and can have a Bluetooth keyboard attach to them that is sold separately. The next thing to consider is size a laptop can have a bigger screen size and a tablet largest screen size is 10.1 inches. Laptops can be attached to a printer for those items that need to be printed and tablets can print but the printer has to be a WIFI printer and attached to a wireless network. You have to also think about what you can hook to a laptop and a tablet. For example you can attach a laptop to an external monitor and well the tablet you cannot. Now you can down load an app for the tablet to hook to a smart TV but with the laptop you can use a HDMI cord from the HDMI port too hook to any TV with a HDMI port. They are both portable, which means they can be taken anywhere, which is one of the main reasons to want to purchase one of these items. The battery life is another...
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...LAPTOPS V/S HAND-HELD DEVICES IN B-SCHOOLS- STUDIES ON USAGE, PREFERENCE AND BEHAVIOR PATTERNS Neeraj Kumar; Rekha Makhija; Prashant Iyer and Mohamed Sheriff Ameer neeraj.gjan14@spjain.org S P Jain School of Global Management | Dubai ∙ Singapore ∙ Sydney ABSTRACT: Today’s market has so many gadgets that consumers are almost spoilt for choice. Also a bulk of the consumers who are students have difficulty in choosing between laptops or handheld devices like smart phones and tablets for their day to day activities. In this paper attempt has been made to highlight how education and technology have evolved hand in hand over the years. We also have conducted an exhaustive research on the usage patterns of laptops and handheld devices among students to find their preferences and behavior patterns. We have restricted our research to Business school students because they are widely exposed to various gadgets as part of their academic learning and daily activities. This study helps us to gauge, compare and to an extent even predict the future of different gadgets in the higher education sector. The survey showed that though the current usage of laptops is highest for academic and leisure activities, their preference are more towards tablets. There are various business schools that have already adapted tablets as a substitute for laptops and books. With the rapidly increasing advancement in technology, the usage of tablets for education is expected to become more widespread...
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... Introduction If you own and operate a store and customers are not coming in, what is the first thing you do? You hold a sale. Once you slash your prices by 25 percent or give shoppers who buy one item the chance to buy another item for 50 percent off, your merchandise will start flying off the shelves. While slapping a price tag on your product or service seems like a one-minute job, it is actually a lot harder than it looks. Set your prices too high, and you lose sales. Set them too low, and you lose money. Value-Based Pricing Value-based pricing is a method of pricing products in which companies first try to determine how much the products are worth to their customers. The goal is to avoid setting prices that are either too high for customers or lower than they would be willing to pay if they knew what kind of benefits they could get by using a product. Products are priced based on the value it creates for the customer. This is usually the most profitable form of pricing. Inappropriate pricing strategy can shrink profitability, warp customer relationships, and destroy even a well-known brand. Therefore, companies have to focus on value creation over the long-term by honoring the needs of customers. For customers, the benefit of a product or service versus the price of the product or service is what matters most in the purchasing decision. Taking this fact into consideration companies have to set their price in order to capitalize on the perceived value of...
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...display? If I need a bigger hard drive, which brands carry that capacity? Is a keyboard enough, or should I splurge for the touchpad/keyboard combo? Do you have any that aren’t this heavy? These are all question I heard from consumers who were looking to buy a new laptop. Laptops have become a necessity to many these days. With a technological world that is rapidly expanding, desktops have become out-of-date, and consumers are demanding laptops with grand capabilities fit into a small package. The vast amount of options out there give consumers a variety of options to choose from. Consumers demand different qualities from their laptop whether it is processing, durability, battery life, display, and a variety of other options. This paper will discuss the present displays being used in stores to promote the products, what consumers voice in terms of what they want in a laptop, and primarily what brands can do to further help their sales. For this specific paper, I will be looking at Dell as the targeted brand. Dell was once the dominant presence is the computer industry, but their market share is diminishing constantly. My goal in this research is to determine what Dell is doing wrong if anything, and what they can do with their brand and products to regain their lost market share. The first store I stopped out to see their laptop display was Best Buy. Best Buy is one of the leading electronic stores in the nation, and is on the market as one of the top retailers that consumers shop...
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...startup planning to launch a budget category tablet in the market. By 2017 there is a projected growth of over 78% in the worldwide tablet market (Columbus, 2013). USA is expected to remain the market leader in terms of consumers and Asia, especially China (43% growth by 2017), is expected to be the growth market (Croker, 2014). There is over 50% difference between urban and rural expenditure in China (“China Household Finance Survey”, 2013). With an average tablet expected to cost about $416 by 2015 ("Average Selling Price Of Tablet Pcs Worldwide From 2005 To 2015 (in U.S. Dollars)", 2014), there is a huge potential to capture the budget tablet (priced 30-50% below current market price) segment. Tabby International selected US and China as their initial markets to startup with. The company has a leadership team with background in running hardware and mobile devices production. It has also recruited a team of engineers, and researchers to develop the prototypes. Tabby will initially sell its products through its websites and set up booths in key urban locations in US and China to launch and support its products. Market Needs Due to the value technology has added to the global marketplace, consumers are driving the demand for products and services that break the traditional cliches of working and socializing behind four walls. The need for a desk, chair, and office is being replaced with a stylus pen, wi-fi connection, and a tablet in the new fast past environment. Currently...
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...e-books vs. printed books and what technological advances in reading means for the publishing industry as a whole. Back in 2010, when Apple came out with the first generation of its tablet, the iPad, the Pew Research Center found that only 5 percent of Americans owned an e-reader and 4 percent owned a tablet. But as e-readers improved their design and debuted increasingly sleeker, more intuitive, larger memory models, e-reader ownership grew. Photo Credit: u-publish.com Today, those numbers have severely multiplied, with 32 percent of Americans owning an e-reader and 42 percent owning a tablet, those devices being two of the biggest ways e-books are consumed by readers. http://www.uloop.com/news/view.php/134689/E-Books-vs-Printed-Books-The-21st-Cent However, though e-reader and e-book sales numbers seem to be constantly growing, a report by the Association of American Publishers (AAP) showed that in 2013, hardcover book sales in the U.S. were actually up while overall U.S. e-book sales were actually down about 5 percent. The AAP found that hardcover book sales rose 11.5 percent to $778.6 million through August of 2013 while e-book sales were up only 4.8 percent to $647.7 million during that same time. Overall, 2013 total book sales came out to around $15 billion according to AAP, which is up around 14 percent since 2008, with e-books accounting for $3 billion of sales. Though e-readers are becoming more and more popular, they’re not outdistancing print, and there’s...
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...Recommendations 11 Conclusion 12 References 13 Executive Summary As we prepare to arm our Sales Managers with a devise that will not only keep us competitive in the market, but give us a technological advantage over our competitors. Allowing them to: • Present sales pitch to the customer • Analyze sales performance • Track Sales in real time • Manage Sales Force • Manage Accounts • Conduct training • Keep our data secure • Order equipment direct to the market We must decide which OS best fits our needs. We have researched in depth the three leading operating systems on the market. Apple IOS, Android Jelly Bean, and Microsoft Windows 8.1. While each operating system had great advantages and disadvantages we found the following to be true: Microsoft Windows 8.1 is the clear winner. I recommend we provide each Sales Manager with a phone and tablet computer running the Windows 8.1 operating system by Microsoft. It will give them everything they need, a laptop, tablet and phone that will work seamlessly together. 1. I recommend the first step we take is to research the best devise to operate the Windows 8.1 operating system. In terms of processing speed, battery life, durability and memory 2. Next I recommend we find a company to lease the devises. 3. I also recommend that we set up a training program for our Sales...
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...Next reports rep or ts.informationweek.com M ay 2012 $99 2012 State of Mobile Security With 62% already allowing personal devices at work, 80%, require only passwords for IT’s juggling laptop policies and Wi-Fi policies and BYOD policies—and that means security gaps big enough to drive a semi through. Most, mobile devices that access enterprise data/networks, yet just 14% require hardware encryption, no exceptions. Let’s be clear: Mobile security is data security, and we must do better. By Michael Finneran Report ID: R4720512 Previous Next reports 2012 State of Mobile Security CONTENTS 3 4 5 6 7 9 11 11 15 20 25 26 27 27 30 32 45 Author’s Bio Executive Summary Research Synopsis Lessons Unlearned Mobile Device Policies: BYOD in Full Swing What, Me Worry? Breaking It Down Wi-Fi Policy Guidance Tablet/Smartphone Policy So What Are You Doing About It? Applications and Malware Laptops and Ultrabooks Security-Awareness Training Get Going on a Secure Mobility Initiative Don’t Sit Still Appendix Related Reports 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 TABLE OF Figures 6 Figure 1: Policy on Personal Mobile Device Use? 7 Figure 2: Personal Mobile Device Policy 8 Figure 3: Percentage of Employees Using Mobile Devices 9 Figure 4: Top Mobile Security Concerns 10 Figure 5: Importance of Mobile Security Initiatives 11 Figure 6: Percentage of Mobile Devices Experiencing Security Incidents Figure 7: Securing Wireless LANs Figure...
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...Indonesia grew 22% and 37%, respectively. China, now the largest PC market in the world, represents 20% of all PC demand, and grew a remarkable 15%". The Intel CEO believes that the rapid growth will continue to drive his business in the coming years: "China has a household penetration rate of just 35%, versus almost 90% in the U.S. China is the world's largest market for mobile phones with more than 950 million subscribers. It's also at the forefront of the smartphone boom and will be the home of the world's first 32-nanometer smartphone". These quotes show that emerging markets fuel the growth of the global economy, especially of the technology sector. I believe that this growth will continue many years because of the adaption process in many regions of the globe. The people in China, India and plenty of other countries want to adapt to Western standards of living as fast as possible. The adaption process gets boosted by Moore´s law (wikipedia), which describes the long term trend of rapidly falling prices for technology because of the rapid technological progress. Therefore more and more companies & consumers in the emerging markets can afford to buy computers, tablets, smartphones...
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...ac.uk | tba | Grace He | M218 | 2791 | p.he1@herts.ac.uk | tba | Neil Brooks | M218 | 2791 | | tba | Jonathan Cahill | M218 | 2791 | | tba | Maria Thomas | M249 | | m.thomas@herts.ac.uk | tba | Sarah Jayne Hill | M218 | 2791 | | | 2. Module aims This initial marketing module, which assumes no prior knowledge of marketing, aims to introduce students to some of the key ideas of marketing and is suitable for both marketing and non-marketing students. It examines the environment within which organisations operate and the role of marketing within the organisation in order for students to be fully able to understand the context within which marketing personnel work, and the different activities which are carried out under the umbrella term of ‘marketing’. Concepts central to an understanding of marketing are considered: 4 P’s (product, price, promotion and place), segmentation, targeting and positioning, services marketing and buyer behaviour. * Develop a basic understanding of the key concepts of marketing; & * Understand business functions and the engagement with micro and macro environments. 3. Format of delivery One hour lecture and one hour tutorial each week. 4. The StudyNet site for this module will be employed to post relevant and important information. Please check it regularly for lecture slides, tutorial and test materials, general news items, etc. 5. (a) Weekly programme:...
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...Question #1 The modern Apple, Inc., which a number of consumers have come to know and love, is considered to be the Jobs’ era. Steve Jobs was ousted from the organization during his 1985 resignation, and eventually brought back as a part of the acquisition of NeXT. He was eventually named the permanent CEO of Apple in 2000 and ultimately sculpted Apple into the revolutionary organization it has become today. Apple has been able to become a revolutionary organization because Steve Jobs implemented a different business strategy than his predecessors. According the case study, “Much of Apple’s turnaround could be credited to Steve Jobs, who had idea after idea for how to improve the company and turn its performance around. He not only consistently pushed for innovative new ideas and products but also enforced several structural changes, including ridding the company of unprofitable segments and divisions (C-143, Thompson).” Through the elimination of Apple’s less useful operations the organization was able to consolidate resources in order to concentrate on innovating, differentiating, and developing new and/or existing products. Apple has applied this strategy to its computer, digital music, tablet, and phone lines to a great deal of success. The most abundant strategy which affects all Apple’s products is how they are differentiated from the competition. From the hardware to the software, an average consumer could easily recognize an Apple product from the competition. An...
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...HEWLETT-PACKARD GRIFFIN CONSULTING GROUP Jason Blauvelt Paul Ciasullo Owen Hawkins Sunday, April 15, 2012 CONTENTS Executive Summary ..................................................................................................................... 4 History ........................................................................................................................................... 5 Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard .............................................................................................. 5 Expansion .................................................................................................................................. 6 The Age of Computers ............................................................................................................ 7 Acquisitions, Innovation, and New Markets ....................................................................... 7 Struggles in Recent Years ........................................................................................................ 8 Financial Analysis ........................................................................................................................ 9 Overview ................................................................................................................................... 9 Chart 1: Stock Performance Over 5 Years............................................................................. 9 Chart 2: Basic Financial Information...
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...very strong hardware base for the internet future and thus logically they play their role in this battle by laying emphasis on the hardware that facilitates mobile computing. Apple has gone into the stance that applications, one of the major earners for tablet and phone manufacturers, should be device restricted. For example, one application should be unique to the brand of the device and should be allowed to function in another device from another separate brand. They even stopped Google in its plans to allow Google applications to work on Apple products. Thus by doing this Apple is trying to capitalize on their loyal customer base and create a Apple weds Apple scenario. Google: Google is the believer in the concept that in the future the devices used to run the applications and other internet options should be a fraction of what they are being charged now and instead the revenues generated should be from the in-app advertisements. Google even bought AdMob, an application advertisements development company, to work on such a concept. This future, Google and Microsoft have tried their hand at going hardware friendly but they still do not put the same emphasis on the hardware as Apple. Microsoft: Microsoft has laid its bet on the operating system on which the mobile computing devices shall run. Microsoft also has announced plans to develop the hardware for mobile computing, something it has not done so far, and thus has entered into the field of both Google and Apple. By integrating...
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