Android laptops and netbooks - look around, prices. Ultrabook for Android and Windows ASUS Transformer Book Trio: first look

Android- an operating system for smartphones, tablet computers, e-books, digital programmers, wrist yearbooks, game consoles, netbooks, smartbooks, Google eyepieces,” says Wikipedia. And then bam! this Engadget to shine photos of the first Android laptop - HP SlateBook 14!

In memory, the Asus company has a new report on the name Asus Transformer All-in-One, where the retailers combined two operating systems in one monobloc-tablet. Ale, so, there is one and the main one on laptops - so with Android it will be the first.

As far as the characteristics are concerned, the information is still not rich. We know that the new product will feature a 14-inch touchscreen display with a separate FullHD building, a BeatsAudio audio system and an Nvidia Tegra chip. Well, it’s clear, on the sam_y the rest of the version Android. I especially wonder how such a laptop can cope with the usual tasks, as I put it on my Asus Zenbook. Listen to that music tsіkavo.

Then we have a lot of pictures of this redness, so that you can look at it all the way and across. You can see it from the sides, so I’ll remind you - there are standard sockets for living, three USB, a full-sized HDMI and an audio jack, a laptop can have a slot for a micro-SD card and a SIM card! New? Why? Can a mega mobile laptop be wired? Tsіkavenko..

So, all in my mind, tiles-tiles are amazing, but what do you think? Chi vdast HP robit schos not only call cool, but listen? for sale? more popular? and the smut is smarter and more productive?

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06.02.17. Lenovo Yoga A12 - budget analogue of Yoga Book with touch keyboard

The Yoga Book from Lenovo appeared in 2016 at a $500 price tag and greeted the whirlwind reaction of the rustic fireworks to the extraordinary design. The 10-inch transformer replaces the keyboard by removing the "creative maydanchik", which allows you to paint and write on a new pen for the help of a pen or on a virtual keyboard. Only two models were available - one for Windows 10, one for Android, but the company made it clear that it would be better to build such a format. The first axis of today's presentations of Lenovo Yoga A12 - the same Yoga Book, only with a larger screen, reduced performance and a smaller size ($299). The laptop has a 12.2-inch screen with 1280 x 800 pixels, 2GB of RAM and 32GB of internal memory, an Intel Atom x5-Z8550 Cherry Trail processor. Tobto. new product may have the same processor, ale vdvіchi less memory. Xhoch Yoga A12 and added to the vase - 1kg versus 680g, still thin - 1cm. In addition, it can support USB3.0 Type-C, USB2.0, WiFi 802.11 and Bluetooth 4.1. Three operating systems are available only Android.

2016. Android change ChromeOS

For 7 years, Google has pushed through two of its operating systems with different philosophies: Android (focused on native programs) and Chrome OS (focused on web add-ons and browser). And Google's philosophies couldn't say for sure how strategic these philosophies were for them. It looks like it's been won over. For days, Google voted about closing the store Chrome programs apps and about those that will run through the coming decades on all Chromebooks (laptops under Chrome OS) Additions Play Market. Behind the Wall Street Journal tribute, the advancing fate of Chrome OS, pin your own reason, getting angry from Android. And for the rest of the credit from Gartner analysts: Android has already practically monopolized the mobile device market with a frequent 86% (against 12% of iOS).

2014. Chromebooks now allow you to copy files back to your Android smartphone via USB

The rest of the operating version Chrome systems OS allows you to copy and transfer files from Chromebooks to Android smartphones back via USB. Files that are located on smartphones will now become available in the Files add-on on laptops (just like when working with USB flash drives). Dosi single option to transfer files between smartphones and chromebooks bad services for synchronization, we are forwarding Google Drive.

2014. Chromebooks will support Android apps

2013. Android works on laptops. Over Windows

In the meantime, Google may have a master plan "How to get Windows down." Polagaє vin at the one who Chrome browser become the main addendum, as koristuvachs will be typing on the computer (because everything is needed, it’s on the Internet). And then we'll get rid of Chrome. Windows will become a zayvoyu Lanka. Startup BlueStacks came up with such a plan, but instead of Chrome, the stench blew portability on Windows mobile operating system Android. I look back at those who mobile supplements the rest of the hour will become more popular, lower web programs, which plan can be done more quickly. How do you work?

2011. Smartbook Toshiba AC100 works on Android 2.2

While the sector of smartbooks is not characterized by vibukhovy drink, prote ts great potential, and the virobniks pronounce more and more cicavi models that novlyuyut already know. One of the poorest smartbooks on the planet has updated its operating firmware. Android 2.2 gave the Toshiba AC100 a set of basic features for the Froyo edition, including support Adobe Flash. In addition, the smartbook can now access the Toshiba-branded add-on store and add-on facility mobile point WiFi access. Well, I know that coristuvachas are able to increase their productivity, especially for an hour of web surfing.

2010. Toshiba AC100 - the first Android smartbook

Russia started selling the first smartbook with an operating system Google Android- Toshiba AC100. I’ll add a simple and concise design, it’s clear that the retailers didn’t experiment with the design of the device. Small, light and thin: the dimensions of the smartbook are 262x190x14/21 mm, and the dimensions are 870 g. Above the screen is a camera with a matrix of 1.3 megapixels. On the sides of the building there are sockets: USB, mini-USB, HDMI, 3.5 mm audio socket and a slot for SD and MMC cards. The device supports Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and 3G. Moreover, the maximum speed of data transmission for third-generation networks is 7.2 megabits per second, while the majority of USB-modems present on the market are less than 3.6 Mbps. Toshiba AC100 build in version with 8 gigabytes of memory cost in Russia 13 thousand rubles.

2009. 3G netbook Aspire One D250 with Android OS in the fall of the leaves to appear in Russia

Acer introduced the Aspire One D250 netbook in Russia with an operating system Google system Android. As an option, a netbook can be equipped with a 3G modem. Cream Android, on D250 we cost Microsoft Windows. The netbook is equipped with a 10.1-inch LED display with CrystalBrite advanced brightness technology and a 1024 x 600 pixel display, an Intel Atom processor, a 160 GB hard drive, and a cream without a dart Wi-Fi can be enhanced more traditional. In the Russian market, the Aspire One D250 is sold with a 6-section battery in the kit, which lasts up to 6 years. autonomous robots. Orientation variant – 12990 rub.

Microsoft positions Windows 8 as a system, but works well as a PC, and mobile gadgets. Google chose Android as the OS for tablets and smartphones, and Chrome OS for laptops. But what if you install Android on a laptop with a touch screen? On the Lenovo Ideadap A10, for example, it's broken for locks.

Don't know Android

Most of the makers of smartphones install custom interfaces on android. I don't feel like it especially. Ale, at a glance with laptops, it’s necessary. Android did not bother with thoughts about laptops, so that the OS was added to vikoristannya in a similar form factor, and changes are really necessary. Lenovo also introduced a "custom dock" piece that mimics the Windows Launch Superbar.

Android will also require a keyboard similar to the traditional Windows and Linux keyboards. May be on the verge of presence special buttons for multitasking, switching between working programs just like that. The reverse side of the process is the fact that changes can be less cosmetic. You can't go beyond the Android kernel.

Undersoft

The great problem of Android is those that programs are not recognized on laptops or desktop computers- the stench is broken with orientation to the interaction of corystuvach with sensory surfaces. So, it’s not good for programs to be forced to use keyboard shortcuts + mice, but stink, like before, to prevent what we called from Windows.

Jodin office package, for example, vіdpovіdaє Microsoft Office. Kingsoft Office and other analogues - good, but mobile versions not so garni, like their desktop brothers. It is especially important, for example, when working with macros spreadsheets. Also, I will repeat the day professional supplements. and others graphic editors non-standard with floor versions.

Ale, maybe, the most rіchchyu for Android є those that її mobile browsers not as good as Chrome, Firefox or Opera for PC. For locking in, the stench has been imposed on the interests of the parties in the mobile regime. Obviously, a sprinkling of small hacks will allow everything to go back to normal, but the main thing is that the desktop browsers won’t show up. Mova, obviously, about plugins.

Filthy multitasking, garne multimedia

Another thing that works with Android in laptops is multitasking. At that hour, like a floating window, they podolated the prvu between the floor OS and the OS like Google, the solution is not so good, as it would have been. The only advantage is the Play Store. You will have full access to Google Play Music, Play Movies, Play Books and a great catalog of games/additions. There is no such thing in Windows.

How to turn Android into an OS for laptops?

Golovne nutrition - what does Android need to turn into a good operating system for laptops? In my opinion, it is necessary to use other desktop programs through the same Play Store. Approximately the same way, if you install Chrome on your smartphones, there may be an option Chrome installations Desktop for extensions, like typing a keyboard.

Another crochet is rich-tasking. Only laid in the core, and not nibito reduced to greater obligations operational memory at the outbuilding. I, nareshti, you can't forget about homescreen. Notebook versions can be adapted to the keyboard and mouse. Today, the Android OS is not ready to be a full-fledged laptop or computer engine. It is possible if you change everything.

Now Microsoft is not the only company in the PC market, as it stands for operating systems. It’s easy to create an accessible computer, if you need a recheck of the skin unit, it will vibrate. Let's take a look at the HP Slatebook on Android.

One way to get around this is to tidy up Windows, and the same thing that HP built with its new one - Slatebook. Wanting wine and looking like it's another 14-inch laptop, it's really just the insides of a high-end tablet. All in all, an Nvidia Tegra 4 processor with 2 GB of RAM and a 16 GB hard drive. De є Tegra, there will be Android, to this particular type version 4.3 (also known as “Jelly Bean”).

Regardless of its possession, Slatebook is a laptop designed to compete directly with Windows systems.

Let's wonder if Android will be a miracle alternative to Windows - otherwise it will be better for mobile devices.

The old-fashioned look of HP Slatebook

The Slatebook has its own black display with a lid and a bottom part. So, Zhovtu and less Zhovtu.

Whatever your thoughts, no one can deny that it's a funny thing, even HP's marketing pidhid admits that Slatebooks will be popular with young buyers.

Visibility optical drive, or get a 2.5-inch video hard drive, which means that HP can accommodate the stuffing, without being turbulent, so that there will be no space to accommodate all the bulky components. Aluminium-plated for the case and display lids, which help to create a base, allowing for a premium style, which is not typical for inexpensive laptops.

Here you will find three USB port, one of them 3.0, as well as HDMI, combinations of audio sockets and a slot for MicroSD cards. Mi bachiti includes three USB ports; Many Android tablets and laptops include at least one, maybe two. Wi-Fi comes with 802.11 b/g/n and Bluetooth 4.0.

Keyboard

The keyboard is often a big problem on Android systems, but the Slatebook is the best, the worst. Tse chastkovo, to that the keyboard vіdminnoї yakosti that is nadiya.

Typing words on the Slatebook keyboard, typing words on a Windows PC. The only short marriage is the marriage, but you can work it all together. Notebooks in the same price range are practically never bothered by key switching.

The touchpad, which is about an inch of fringe and two and a half inches of lace, is generally good. Navit naylegshi dotiki, vayutsya, and follow mitteva vіdpovіd.

Display

Slatebook 1080p touch screen. Only Samsung Chromebook 2, while propagating such a one, did it for a lower price. More laptops from 1080p with a screen cost $600 or more, independently from the world. Following this resolution, with a 14-inch display, I create a sharp, miraculous image, allowing you to view report graphics with ease.

Slatebook 1080p has a touch screen

There are some problems, however. Equals of black, not deep, but it means that there is a lack of contrast and depth. Movies and games do not have a cinematic look, which is better for Android and iOS tablets.

We also commemorated the problems of video scaling - power, yaki, here, android scaling. The YouTube app, for example, does not have an option to select 720p or 1080p. As a result, the video was often zavantazhuvalas with the lowest razdіlnoyu zdatnіstyu.

It can work on a small screen, but on a 14-inch Slatebook it looks bad. Games can also have similar scaling issues, especially as it is a bit of a rock, and the stench has not been recognized for 1080p screens and more.

At the same time, as the clarity of the display helps to correct, the Beats Audio speakers should not indicate problems. The stench is not too full, and the bassists. However, the stench can remind a small application. clean sound. More koristuvachiv їх will be enough for the everyday victorious.

Speed ​​of work

Cream the Nvidia logo, the Slatebook may not have a clue as to what's in the middle. Navіt іnstrukіya vіd HP didn't bother to guess what clock frequency and what is the number of cores (how to set 1.9 GHz).

Prote pristry is not good. HP Slatebok simply robs all speeches without being tight-fitting with specifics. HD video, 3D games and a web browser look - all without a hitch. So, the number of tensile strengths of the Intel system is richer, but the difference is rarely commemorated.

One s obmezhen, yakі can turbuvaty Vlasnikov, 16GB hard drive. That's why the koristuvachiv, who want to download movies in HD, 3D games, or their entire MP3 library, will soon run out of space. Get a microSD card slot here you can tweak to add more memory.

Stringy and light

The string is light, the Slatebook weighs only 3.7 pounds (1.67 kg), with a thickness of 16 mm. What to rob yoga with the help of ultrabooks. More add-on systems on Windows and Chromebooks - more importantly, with a 13 or 14-inch screen.

Slatebook allows you to actively browse the web for up to 7 years. Tse miraculous result. For example - Acer Aspire E5 14, for six years. More alternatives are close to the fifth year.

Quiet robot

Another advantage of Tegra 4 is the independence from passive cooling, which means that the fan is daily, which bothers with noise or hot air from the ventilation opening. We have indicated that the HP Slatebook is in no way slandered by you, and handy by the victorious.

Exhaustion and Android

Rich in what Slatebook is named after straining attachment. Keyboard and touchpad, here, at least, it's no better than any competitor on Windows. The screen is generally good, and the Tegra 4 processor ensures high pressure. Only one problem, Android.

Android Notebook - HP Slatebook Lookout

Google did not create this operating system as a replacement for Chrome OS. In this rank, є problems, yakі blaming when trying to beat Android as a replacement for Windows.

Scale is the greatest food. Programs and navigation to view web pages are displayed as if they were a smartphone or a tablet. Tse means that you reject the interface, optimizing for touch input on that five to ten inch screen, and not the one that was created for touch panel that 14-inch screen. The buttons are comically large, the video buffer is not optimized, and the games don't play well with the keyboard and touchpad.

A lot of what is on Windows is simply not possible: Batkiv control, accurate regulation of tension and dispatcher of attachments.

Visnovok

Android swap to pull Slatebook down. Tse sravzhnya shambles, even tse miracle budget laptop. We have no problem for yoga productivity, an hour of autonomous robotic interface. At that hour, the display can be reduced by a troch.

Mi trohi zdivovani why this laptop is not allowed with Chrome OS. Possibly, wine is not strong enough. Maybe a touch screen, more attached to Android?

We should be sure that we can change that we can change it, and the version of my laptop under Chrome OS will show up at the police station at some point. Tse will be more difficult to purchase.

The availability of the HP Slatebook can still be a sensation for buyers with a limited budget, if you want a smart, smart and simple laptop for basic tasks. Just change your mind, you know what you're checking out when buying an Android laptop, even if you upgrade your operating system, you might get caught.

Plusy

• Slim and comfortable design
• Good keyboard and touchpad
• 1080p screen at a low price
• Trivial term for battery life
• Do not heat up, she quietly works

Minusi

• Average image clarity
• Android set of functions
• Many programs are not recognized for a laptop

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This post is a translation of an old article by Matt Baxter-Reynolds on .

Summary: PC OEMs seem to be obsessed with building foldable, expensive Windows 8 add-ons. Why isn't anyone looking for cheap Android laptops?

The axis is a mystery to you.

Microsoft's OEM partners who build Windows PCs choose this pidhead before releasing their products, with all the stench just sticking around and putting the price on the market. Rozrahunok and obachnist with tsomu turbuє їх no more, lower than a camel with diarrhea turbuє, de trough a shortbread.

It’s good to throw into the market what’s good, like it’s good for them, what it’s possible to earn on what.

Why is it technically easier to vibrate Android laptops, so why can't anyone beat it? Why do they stink for vivalyuvati foldable (and expensive) Windows hybrids?

If they want to make their sales, then cheap Android laptops would probably be the smartest thing to do.

Samsung

Let me know that you need to remind Steve Ballmer of this novelty without shaking your wine. One of the key OEM partners is a company that is so successful in developing Android devices, you can see that Google made Android like special services for financiers of Samsung - roar and say: "we are not impressed with your new Windows system, we are with our Android customers."

Single safe way zrobity tse - take Steve to a soundproof bunker at the bottom of the campus, remind him of two or three hundreds of especially cute cochens and bunnies and spend the next day, or close to see some of the new things, quite neatly.

Intel wants to, Android looks good on x86. For example, the 10" Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 will be powered by an Intel Atom processor. The only thing Intel would like to do is leave Android behind. To avoid the stench in capturing the fact that ATIV Q with Android and Intel are on board, I conducted a battle exploration on the territory of Windows .

We know you can get a decent x86 or ARM Chromebook for under $250. We also know that the Chromebook's problem is in their Internet stagnation and should be broken even further. It’s a bit of a stretch, but if Android got in the way, Chrome OS doesn’t look like a coherent idea.

So, ale operational android system that single-tasking (one task at a time), at the same time as Windows and Chrome OS on the traditional WIMP interface, is secured on the touch screen.

Tse can be corrected. A classic open source project looks like Android-x86. Intel also has a project called Android on Intel Architecture (Android-IA). Obidva allow you to download handheld devices for laptops in the Android version.

Android is already coming to traditional PCs - as already discussed by my colleague John Morris.

Amazon

“If you're doing crazy stuff, you might want to connect yoga to Google Play to secure access to the software ecosystem for the hardcore. Unfortunately, due to low legal and business reasons, we can't automatically license Google Play for all smart devices. To request access to Google Play, you can contact us."

So, do not be surprised at those who take the operating system without cost, you will have an attachment that you can sell, the rest of the word is left to Google. In the markets that are developing, applications without Google Play are practical.

In this rank of Google, it’s better to say "nі!" be someone who wants to create an Android laptop. It's a lie that Google might be trying to sell its Chromebooks as part of a laptop replacement strategy, I think it's important to believe that the stench of overcoming itself, so that the world of Android laptops is possible for some of their partners.

How to get around Google problem play?

One of the solutions is the moment of bibuti vbudovaniya dodatkіv store in the vendor itself. Today, one of the great vendors of Android devices to find out is Samsung. It's even more amazing that Samsung hasn't created a dossier, but it's safe to say that its investments in Android devices will flow directly to Google. Tse vzagali are not those that are necessary for Samsung.

Ale, for whatever reason, Samsung didn’t kill it. And I can show myself not so richly, like they put the Google management team in a short time before Korea, but the news is about those that Samsung is no longer considering Google Play. (The ATIV Q was guessed before the Google Play speech.)

The best way to bring Android laptops to the market would be Amazon's creation of the Kindle Fire line of laptops. There are three obvious ways that Amazon has two important puzzle pieces to solve.

First of all, I already have an Amazon add-on store of sufficient size to please the market. In spring 2012, Laptop Magazine announced that Amazon was offering 50,000 donations from a share of 600,000 Addendum to Google play.

In a different way, Amazon has already brought what the building is supposed to deliver, bring it to the market with its extensions. Add a line of Fire tablets with a laptop - yes, it would fit right in with your current strategy.

Navit yakbi Amazon did not get stuck in the laptop builders themselves, allowing the builders to install the Amazon software store on their outbuilding could be a good idea.

I tried speeding up with an Android laptop for help virtual machineі AndroVM, і did a good job. Axis is a screenshot of Evernote running Android Jelly Bean on VMware Fusion on OS X. Pay attention to the cursor.

Android runs on my MacBook in VMware Fusion. Pictured here is Evernote, which I grabbed from the Amazon Appstore. (Google Play does not embed in AndroVM.)

Visnovok

If the Chromebook is taking over the market, it's because of its simplicity and cheapness. We know that the costly PCs will demand "more cheap" - it is confirmed by the fall of the average admission prices. We also know that the stench is not too stinky in the foldable, which is confirmed by the fact that after nine months Windows 8 has not become a must have product.

I'm sure it's a good opportunity for someone to move in and reshape the low-end laptop market with other Android laptops.

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