Tablet vs. Laptop Showdown

Tablet vs. Laptop Showdown
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Quick homework assignment: Jot down the answer to the question, “What do I need my PC to do?”
Take your time. Depending on how you answer, you’ll be buying either a full-fledged laptop or a skinny iPad.
Last week, Apple AAPL 1.75 % ▲made a bold assertion when unveiling its new 9.7-inch iPad Pro. The 600 million people currently using a Windows PC that’s at least five years old would find the new iPad to be the “ultimate PC replacement,” says Phil Schiller with battery like dell Vostro 3350 battery, Dell 0XXDG0 Battery, Dell Latitude E4400 Battery, Dell HW905 Battery, Dell Latitude C400 Battery, Dell 00R271 Battery, Dell Latitude 2100 Battery, Dell C9880 Battery, Dell XPS M2010 Battery, Dell MN151 Battery, Dell Latitude D420 Battery, Dell Inspiron 1012 Battery, Apple’s senior vice president of world-wide marketing.
I almost spit out my iced coffee. Sure, next, I’ll just drive a tricycle to work. Except then came the price: $600 for the tablet, plus $150 for the keyboard case. That tallies up to the most affordable “laptop” Apple’s ever sold.
It’s a different ballgame than the $900 jumbo iPad Pro released in November. This smaller tablet competes directly on price with midrange Windows laptops. As I’ve said time and time again, $600 is the least you must spend to avoid a sluggish, cheaply built lemon.
So I took Apple’s challenge. Pitting the iPad Pro against a $600 11.6-inch Dell Inspiron laptop—and even a $430 Toshiba TOSYY -0.45 % ▼Chromebook 13—I found it to be capable of many common PC tasks, though there can be significant trade-offs in usability and comfort.
A real laptop is still the ultimate PC replacement, but you may find the iPad Pro’s strengths outweigh its traditional computing weaknesses. It all hinges on what you wrote down in response to that all-important question.
Obvious: The new iPad is better than the old iPad. Not obvious: When it comes to the basics—taking notes, Web browsing, listening to music, video calling—the iPad Pro is better than most laptops. Seriously, an always-on computer the size of a toaster tray is twice as fast as laptops twice its size.
With Apple’s A9X processor and 2GB of RAM, the Pro was snappier at surfing the Web and handling multiple browser tabs than the Dell, which runs Windows 10 with a Core i3 processor. (Even a $700 Core i5 Dell trailed the iPad by a minute at exporting 1080p video.) Microsoft MSFT 0.62 % ▲’s own most comparable product, the $500 Surface 3, was so sluggish and behind on battery life it immediately fell out of the running. The Toshiba Chromebook, on the other hand, was as snappy as the iPad Pro when scrolling and handling multiple websites.
While the new Pro’s 9.7-inch display can look cramped next to the larger laptops, it is crisper and easier on the eyes. The new True Tone screen—which reduces the bluish tint in some lighting to look more like white paper—is nice when reading a book or sifting through that never-shrinking inbox.
The under-1-pound iPad pumped out louder and fuller sound through its quad speakers than either of the 3-pound laptops I tested, and the front-facing camera made for clearer video calls than Dell’s webcam.
All that, plus you never have to reboot it and it gets longer battery life. I was able to work on the iPad for about 7 hours before it gave out. In our battery test, which loops series of websites with brightness set around 65%, the iPad lasted 8.5 hours, an hour longer than the Dell and Toshiba Chromebook (though 2 hours less than my trusty MacBook Air). If the Pro wants to be more laptop than tablet, however, it needs a charging port rearrangement. You try working with a wire sticking out of the side of the screen!