Advantages of Ipad over Laptops

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When buying a personal computer, confusion would surely arise whether to buy a laptop or to buy an Ipad. To help you with this dilemma, it is best that you know what the uses of each are.

What is an Ipad?

An Ipad is a table personal computer. The size as well as the weigh is between a smartphone and a laptop. The operating system of an Ipad is the same with iPhone and iPod Touch. It contains e-reader, games, camera, music and other applications. For Ipad, you can download for free or purchase any applications from the App Store while for Android Tabs can go to Google Play for those android applications.

What is a laptop?

Laptop has the same function as the usual personal computer; the difference is it is just handy. You can bring it anywhere you want unlike a typical pc that you can just use it at home. Laptops have functionalities like Wi-FI, Bluetooth, USB connectivity, web camera and others. Each brand offers original functionalities that can’t be seen on other brands. Anything can be installed in laptops too.
What are the advantages of Ipad over laptops?

Although both are handy, Ipad is more portable as it just weighs 1.5 pounds with a size of 9.5 inches by 7.3 inches which you can easily place inside your handbags. A laptop, however; would be too bulky inside you bag. You can also easily use it while you are just lying on your bed.
Battery life of an Ipad is simply amazing. It can go as long as 10 hours with moderate usage and 7 to 8 hours for extreme streaming. A laptop can only go for 3 hours.


The applications are cheaper when you are using an Ipad compared to laptops. A concrete example would be the Microsoft Office would cost $130 for Home use while Apple’s iWork would just cost $60. So if you want to be typical, you would opt for the Ipad as you can save a lot of money.
You have a lot of cheaper options when it comes to games. Recently, RPG games have been adopted by iPad to attract more serious gamers. Most games are cheaper in iPad than the console games. In fact, there are good games that are just $5 and even less.


You can easily connect your iPad to your TV. There are a few applications from different cable providers that have opted to have some premium channels to your iPad. Watching TV anywhere would never be a problem.

For those bookworms, iPad would be the best choice for them due to eBooks. It is easier to read the online version of the book on the tab compared to reading it on a laptop. You can flip the pages as if you are actually reading a regular book.

With an iPad, multitasking would be very easy from opening Facebook, browsing, composing emails and even doing some writing on word is so easy. You just have to swipe easily each application when you want to switch to another task.