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The iPad experiment hasn’t been a total disaster. The staff prefer the tablets for note-taking in meetings, and they use an app called Emerge to access the school’s pupil database. “This is handy for looking up student data quickly,” our teacher explains. “It’s not all that good at adding information, but very powerful when it comes to cornering the buggers and contacting their parents!” Although you have to wonder if the school has enforced passcodes on the teacher’s iPads to prevent that sensitive data falling into the wrong hands.The school’s iPad experiment sounds like a classic case of the chap with the chequebook making the decision before evaluating whether the hardware meets the needs of his staff. “The iPads should have been rolled out alongside laptops, not instead of them,” our source claims.With schools now given complete autonomy to spend their IT budget as they see fit, you have to wonder if headteachers across the country are making similarly bad decisions based on little more than gut instinct, appearances and the latest fad.

Although Windows 8 has pushed mobile and touch-enabled devices to the forefront, the vast majority of users will be installing the OS on traditional PCs and laptops. Think you know your way around Windows on a PC? For the most part, you still do with Windows 8, but a few changes in approach are impossible to avoid.Like it or not, there’s nowhere else to begin but the Start menu. Many people complained when the Start button was absent from early builds of Windows 8, and despite much hopeful speculation, it has indeed gone for good. Instead, to open applications, find files and access system settings, you now use the same Metro Start screen that’s front and centre on tablets and touch devices. You needn’t move in wholesale if it isn’t to your liking – pinning applications to the desktop taskbar is the post-installation priority, and if you set up your environment correctly you can last the day without having to see Metro. However, you’ll inevitably find yourself there from time to time. For unpinned programs you tap the Windows key, type a few letters and results begin to appear ready for opening. Annoyingly, however, they’re divided into application, setting and file screens, with applications set as the default. So even if you type the precise name of a setting, you won’t be able to press Enter to open it without first selecting that option.

The Metro Start screen scales reasonably well on large desktop monitors and it’s customisable to a degree, but it’s hard to shake the strong feeling that Metro – or whatever Microsoft eventually decides to name it - is an inefficient use of space. Its full-screen approach isn’t at all suitable for screens larger than around 17in, and it isn’t surprising that most of the PC Pro team have settled into routines that avoid entering Metro if at all possible.First, the styling of windows is flatter than before, to complement the look of Metro. We feared it might be an unnecessary step backwards, but it isn’t particularly noticeable: everything can be dragged and resized as before, and the combination of the Windows key and cursor keys still snaps windows to the edges of the display.Explorer windows now have the ribbon interface, but it can be hidden away to be opened on demand with a click of one of the menu tabs – some of which appear only when relevant file types, such as images, are selected. SkyDrive is integrated directly into the file tree, so placing your documents in the cloud to share with other devices is a breeze.

You might think that the file copy and Task Manager dialogs are trivial, but it’s amazing how quickly you come to rely on their new designs. Copying a file now brings up a line graph of the transfer speed that’s updated every second, along with a generally accurate estimate of the duration. If you copy a second file, it’s neatly stacked in the same window.Task Manager now provides all sorts of detail, from the CPU, memory, disk and network usage of every running process, to live graphs of overall system resource usage and histories of which programs have been running. It’s graphical, well designed and now a tool that even non-experts may find useful.If you’re in the market for a compact tablet, the sheer variety on offer can seem daunting. Not only is there a vast number of devices to choose from, but every manufacturer also offers something slightly different, with features, screen technologies, operating systems and prices all varying dramatically between rival tablets. See also: the best tablets of 2014.

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The key difference – and one from which all other differences stem – is the price, which runs the full gamut from laptop-rivalling bank-balance smashers, to bargain-basement impulse buys. At the top end you can expect to pay more than £300; there’s a middle band of tablets costing around £200; and a selection of cheaper devices that come in at just over £100. You may wonder why there’s such a big price difference between these tablets, since at first glance there isn’t a huge difference in size and appearance. Plus, they all do essentially the same thing, right? Well, that’s not entirely true.For starters, build and design does vary quite significantly as you go up the price scale. The lower-priced models will usually have chunkier, creakier designs, with cheap plastic chassis that exhibit a lot of flex if handled roughly.Shell out a bit more and chassis begin to look sleeker, and employ more expensive materials for a sturdier build quality.It’s a similar story for displays. A good screen is absolutely essential for a tablet, compact or not.You’ll have difficulty finding a compact tablet display that isn’t at least IPS, so viewing angles will always be good; the differences concern quality and resolution.

With a compact tablet, you want the screen to be as bright as you can get it and contrast to be as high as possible. The brighter the screen at its maximum setting, the more likely you are to be able to read it outdoors in bright sunshine. Aim for around 400cd/m2 and above. For contrast, anything from 700:1 and up is pretty respectable.Resolutions vary hugely, too. At the top end of the market, you’ll find pin-sharp 1,600 x 2,560 screens. At the bottom end you’re limited to 800 x 1,280. Don’t assume that higher is always better, however, since there’s a limit to the level of detail the human eye can resolve.You can never have too much power, however. The faster your processor, the more responsive your tablet will feel in general use. The faster its graphics chip, the smoother it will play demanding games.So which chips should you look for? Most modern tablets employ processors designed by British company ARM, but there’s a profusion of different models. Currently, the fastest models are the Qualcomm Snapdragon 800/801, Samsung’s Exynos Octa 5 and Apple’s A7.The slowest and most sluggish performers tend to come from lesser-known manufacturers such as Rockchip and MediaTek. You’ll find these in tablets at around the £100 mark. Tablets with these chips will experience more slowdown when downloads, installations and updates are happening in the background, or when many apps are running simultaneously.

Then there’s Intel, which is slowly beginning to muscle in on ARM’s territory. The latest versions of the firm’s Atom chips, as found in the Asus Memo Pad 7, deliver performance that’s comparable to the fastest current ARM processors, both in gaming and non-gaming scenarios – and from the hardware we’ve seen so far, the cost isn’t prohibitive. However, the problem with Intel-powered Android tablets is that not all apps and games on Google Play are compatible with them.It’s also worth bearing in mind that a tablet’s core hardware will have an impact on battery life. Once again, the latest ARM-based processors come up trumps here: we’ve found that tablets powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 800/801 processors tend to deliver the longest battery life in our tests.That isn’t the only factor at play when it comes to stamina, though. With more pixels to power, an ultra-high-resolution screen may sap the battery quicker. And the capacity of the battery is also important in determining how long a tablet will last between charges: the higher the mAh rating of the battery, the better.

Not every tablet has one, but a microSD slot is useful. It allows you to transfer large files quickly to your tablet, and keep them stored locally without impinging on your main storage.An HDMI video output is worth having, too – it’s by far the easiest way to display the screen of your Android tablet on a TV or monitor. However, dedicated outputs are rare on compact tablets. These days it’s more common for devices to deliver video output via either MHL or SlimPort.Finally, it’s worth keeping an eye on the camera specifications. Not every compact tablet has a rear camera and the low-megapixel units tend to be, without exception, awful. Even on the more expensive models, which can shoot decent snapshots, don’t expect smartphone levels of quality.What you can actually do with your tablet, and the selection of apps available, is mostly determined by the operating system it runs. If you want to get a feel for the differences between the three main operating systems - iOS, Android and Windows 8 - then head on over to our guide here: what's the best compact tablet OS?"The Pavilion X360 isn’t just another boring me-too laptop. This £349 Windows 8 hybrid bravely takes on Lenovo’s double-jointed Yoga range with a twin-hinge convertible design and one of Intel's Bay Trail Celeron CPUs. See also: what's the best laptop you can buy in 2014?

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Even though the price is appealing, the HP Pavilion X360 suffers from too many compromises. The Asus VivoBook X200CA offers similar performance and battery life for £50 less, while the Lenovo IdeaPad Yoga 2 11in shows exactly how a hybrid should be made for £500. It is a promising effort, though, and a better quality screen would transform the HP’s appeal.Putting together a budget laptop is a tricky balancing act at the best of times, and the Asus VivoBook X200CA is one of the company's most ambitious attempts yet. Following in the footsteps of the excellent VivoBook S200E, the VivoBook X200CA slashes the price to a miniscule £290 by making some small yet noticeable compromises. See also: what's the best laptop you can buy in 2014?The VivoBook X200CA's build is one area where Asus has made some savings. The chiselled metal chassis of its predecessor has been replaced with a textured, white plastic finish top and bottom. However, for a budget laptop the X200CA certainly doesn't disgrace itself. The all-white finish looks rather dashing by budget standards, and the rounded edges and smooth curves add a little more style than you'd expect from a sub-£300 laptop. Crucially, build quality is impressive as well, and there's very little flex or give anywhere in the laptop's base and lid.

Look past the redesigned exterior, and in many ways the VivoBook X200CA build is a dead ringer for the VivoBook S200. Its chassis is exactly the same size, measuring 303 x 200 x 21mm (WDH), and it has retained a well-spaced and responsive Scrabble-tile keyboard and a good-sized touchpad beneath. It also has an identical array of ports; along the left there's a single USB 3 port and full-sized HDMI and D-SUB outputs, and along the right there are a further two USB 2 ports, a 10/100 Ethernet socket, SD card reader, Kensington lock slot and a 3.5mm headset jack. Wireless connectivity is trimmed down to the bare essentials, and Asus has included single-band 802.11abgn Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 4.