tablet and pc or a laptop?

[johnjack]

I'm building a gaming pc and I already have a decent laptop that came out last year (sony vaio VPCSB1B9E/B) Should i sell my laptop and go for a tablet and the gaming pc or stick with my laptop and build the gaming pc.
Can the tablet replace my laptop as a full computer as I do a lot of travling?

 

[StingElectra]

well it all depends on you. i would go for the gaming build and tablet just because tablets are alot more easy to carry around. it wouldnt replace as a FULL computer but you can still do alot of things as a laptop would do (email, surfing internet, banking, etc.) for a tablet i would recommend a kindle fire or a kindle fire hd (HD has some improvements not that big has a front facing camera built in) its just as good as an i pad and alot cheaper too my grandma has one of them i look forward to buying one of them there neat little ol' things and they are fast and simple
hope this help! -sting

 

[jaguarskx]

As a person who owns a desktop, laptop and 7" Nexus 7 tablet I will tell you that a tablet cannot fully replace a laptop.

The main advantage of the tablet is that it is portable. I use it primarily for reading and studying and the occasional video (study material). I also play a couple of pinball games on it (much easier than on a 4.3" Android phone). I basically use it for "consumption" only purposes. Occasionally I will write an e-mail or surf the next, but I find doing those much easier on a laptop. Of course if you are standing on a street corner it is much easier to do those things with either your cellphone or tablet. Some websites (like THG) detects if you are connecting a phone/tablet or laptop/desktop and routes you to their "mobile webpage" rather than the standard webpage. I find that rather annoying and when you type the on screen keyboard take up almost half your screen.

If you are doing any work, then you will likely find using a tablet to do so can be quite irritating because the keyboard takes up a decent amount of screen real estate. Typing a quick e-mail or text message is generally not a problem, it's when you are doing any actual work that it becomes an issue. I use spreadsheets a lot an the spreadsheets available for tablets are rather weak / lite compared to something like Office 2010 for a laptop.

A tablet makes a nice complement to a laptop for traveling purposes because it is easy to whip out the tablet if you need to quickly reference something or entertain yourself by reading or watching a movie. And it's just as easy to put it away. I keep my Nexus 7 in my inner jacket pocket.

There are Windows 8 tablets, but I never fully researched them. I just know they do not offer an acceptable amount of processing power for me to drop money on them just yet and I am not specifically looking to replace a laptop with such a device.