Take One and Call Me in the Morning: Tablet Computers - Which Is Which?

Once upon a time, when our parent century was barely forty, highly powered future computers were imagined to be technological titans. To be effective, each computational colossus would need to be the size of a skyscraper, or so scientists speculated.

Today, at the dawn of a brave new century, those would-be prophets have capitulated their claims. Computers, like everything else, are getting more powerful as they get smaller...

This is good news for scientific progress (the vast, uninhabited computer-cities of many a sci-fi writer's imagination never came to pass) as well as for consumers, as the current range of PC tablet and Web OS tablet models demonstrates. The rapidly increasing market for PC tablet technology is building to something truly special, as guiding light luminaries in both the Web OS tablet and Window 8 tablet worlds can attest. In this section, we will look at the merits of models like the Toshiba tablet and the Android tablet computer and try to give you an overview of the market itself.

It seems that every major computer company wants a piece of the Pc tablet pie, which, far from overcrowding the marketplace, has led PC tablet technology to grow at a rate unprecedented. From HTC comes the Android tablet computer, which is rising in popularity due to the ubiquity of Android smartphones. Apple's iPad, the standard-bearer of all Web OS tablet designs is an enormous success due to the dominance of Apple branding and tech (not to mention the market superpower of the iPod). A Web OS tablet is perfect for the MAC user who needs a portable (and more affordable) Apple computer.

The next-generation of Window 8 tablet computers is Microsoft striking back, the veteran powerhouse's armoured battle fleet, chocked full of new features, easier than ever software and designed by the best Mr. Gates can buy (which, let's face it, is the best in the world), these Window 8 tablet PC's will be launched in direct competition to the Web OS tablet in what should be the biggest showdown since Godzilla last took on King Ghidorah.

The Toshiba tablet, following a slightly subdued start, is now emerging as one of the most reliable of the Window 8 tablet line-up, and therefore one of the best Pc tablet models around. Equipped with more features, a faster processor and a lush new design job, the new range of Toshiba tablet PCs is going to be the best yet. Bet against these Toshiba tablet beauties at your peril!

Of course, there are more tablets, but the aforementioned are at the forefront of this technological arms race. Each PC tablet has something to recommend it, whether it's a Window 8 tablet or a Web OS tablet. New faces like the Android tablet computer represent fresh blood and a clean slate, two things that the computer industry has needed for quite some time now. While Apple and Microsoft dug their respective trenches and settled in for the long battle, the folks behind the Android tablet computer were free to incorporate the best of both worlds. As a result, an Android tablet computer is a great model if you like elements of both Window 8 tablet and Web OS tablet models.

The best choice if you're in the market for a PC tablet is almost certainly the Toshiba tablet. We're getting more and more interest in the Toshiba tablet and you can bet your bottom dollar that when it comes as a Window 8 tablet it'll become even more of a runaway success story. Conversely, an Android tablet computer, the young pretender, is a great place to look for ease of use as well as innovative design, but those more interested in functionality and familiarity would do best with a Window 8 tablet like the Toshiba tablet. Nevertheless, as the freshest blood on the battlefield, it is from the Android tablet computer that we can expect to see the most creativity and progress, as it is the Android who must work hardest to keep up.

Which will YOU choose?

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