More and more we see people buying these ultra thin tablet and even notebook, but is that a smart choice? Have you truly considered all the repercussions of such a purchase?
Now beyond considerations like:
- Apple doesn’t support flash, so no you can’t use any flash website or flash applications
- Ports! Many of these devices don’t include something as simple as a USB port to upload/download content (images, videos, …)
- OS! Not all tablet can’t run applications such as Microsoft Office (kind of important if it is for business).
- Hardware specifications & limits. Many have very limited storage and since they are sealed cannot be upgraded in any manner.
recently one of my clients was caught off guard when their Surface Pro 2 suddenly failed and they discovered
- Their backups were not running properly
- Because it was a tablet, there was absolutely no way to extract the Hard Drive to recover any of their files!
- Microsoft no longer supports the device