Tablets Vs Tablets Advantages And Disadvantages

Innovation. convenience. capability. productivity. And immersion are perks that tablets would have over computers in the classroom yes? No, in fact it is quite the opposite. Computers have full desktop operating systems which are basically full operating systems such as Windows and OSX. (macs operating system) They can run full versions of programs efficiently. As well as that the actual components that are in computers can literally do more. A tablet is basically an extremely simplistic and dumbed down version of a computer except compared to a computer tablets are practically, and now pretty much outdated within potential productivity in the classroom.The reasons that computers should be used instead of tablets in a school environment are

They can run full versions of these programs with more extent and complexity, allowing for more productivity than tablets can withstand. For one instance, research papers require very complex things that require an abundance of formatting, margins, page numbers and double spaces, which is practically impossible on a tablet. Unless you already had a template made, which you it had to be made on a computer. But when you would edit that template on the tablet it would break the formating. So with that stated it is shown that using a computer would be more efficient. The actual programs can do more because of the computer’s superior hardware, and of its more powerful operating systems. A tablet’s operating system can be very limited, so it cannot run as much and as well as a computer can. Like iOS, it cannot run Flash or JAVA, or it can attempt to run flash with a cost of being extremely laggy(slow and glitchy). With that, it knocks out most programs that run with those types of code, and if it is on a tablet they have to rewrite the program to make it compatible for that particular operating system, and most of the time they had to degrade it for it to work. Therefore: Technologically speaking computers are completely superior when running tasks, such as Microsoft Office, and other productivity processing

RAM (Random Access Memory essential for modern day computing) is basically how much you can do with the machine in one instance, or how much you can have open without your stuff crashing or how big. An ipad only has less than a gigabyte of ram. Your average laptop at least has four at the minimum. There are computers that are and can be lighter than an ipad and more agile,plus their touchscreen with at least this amount of 4 gigabytes. As well as that their running full desktop operating systems which means that they are not like what your phone looks like its the operating systems that computers run and NOT tablets. The operating systems of tablets are very restricted. In which now with said limitations being said for one thing it is now natural to assume that the other is full of unlimited possibilities especially in the