Sony VAIO Tap 11

Mobile and slate Tablet PCs seem to be everywhere these days, but few do much to distinguish themselves from the dozens of other black rectangle with a touch screen on the market. The Sony VAIO Tap 11 manages to do what fails most other tablets do, which is to be both functional and stylish. The VAIO Tap 11 is very slim, but that thinness is paired with a sleek looking design and decent feature set. The performance, though passable, has nothing brag about, and its price is definitely on the high side, but the Sony VAIO Tap 11 is a solid choice if you're looking for one of the thinnest, lightest Windows 8 tablet available.

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The VAIO Tap 11 takes quite a few cues from the Microsoft Surface Pro, and designed to compete with the Surface Pro 2 The VAIO Tap 11 measures 0.39 by 12.0 by 7.4 inches (HWD) and weighs a scant 1.7 pounds, making it slimmer and lighter than the 0.53-inch thick, 2 pounds Surface Pro. The tablet features a 11-inch display with 1920-by-1080 resolution, and it uses a display technology Triluminous Sony, a proprietary variant of IPS technology that offers rich colors and clear viewing from almost any angle . The display offers two kinds of interaction support, with capacitive touch for hands and a digitizer for use with the included digitizer pen.

   Featuring aluminum unibody chassis of a tablet built in kickstand, letting you use it upright on a table or desk, or close the kickstand for handheld use. Unlike Surface kickstand, however, the Sony approach uses a slim one-inch wide legs rather than running the entire length of the tablet. This both reduces the overall stability of the stand and makes it a little more convenient to open, because you'll need to flip over the tablet or take it back to fix the kickstand. It will, however, improve the strategy Microsoft in two ways. First, the kickstand can be adjusted to any angle within a 85-degree range, making it easier to find the angle screen that works for you. To compare, the kickstand on the Microsoft Surface has only a set position, and the Microsoft Surface Pro 2 adds a second position. Second, at the end of the kickstand is rubber-coated providing real TRACTION,, so the tablet does not slide onto a surface that is not level or skitter away when your desk gets bumped.

The bundle also wireless keyboard cover, but do not like the keyboard surface, which magnetically latch into place and double as a soft screen cover, the cover 11 VAIO Tap is a slim Bluetooth keyboard, which magnetically latches in place and charges by a small charging port on the front of the tablet. Bluetooth wireless keyboard is often used in the tablet to remove the need for a USB or dock connector, much like the keyboard Acer Aspire P3-171-6820 see. Keyboard with chiclet keys and a small touchpad, complete with gesture support and separate right and left buttons, but measures a scant 4.5 millimeters thick. Despite this, the keyboard still manages to offer a full millimeter of stroke depth, which makes for a typing experience similar to similar to Microsoft Surface TypeCover.

Closing the cover with keyboard tablet also includes sleep, making it easier to transition from on-the-go use in stowing the tablet. The keyboard cover magnetically clings to the tablet, which hold relatively safe in the face of the tablet, but it has high chance to slide around, even with recessed charging port properly aligned. As a result, the cover does not always stay in place as well as it should, and I had real concerns about a slide cover scratching the glass surface of the display. Finally, since it is wireless, the keyboard has its own internal battery, which charges while the cover is closed, but if the keyboard is used for extended time periods, you can see the battery running out too soon, there is no way to charge it while using the tablet.

In addition to the wireless keyboard, the VAIO Tap 11 also has a digitizer pen. While there is no built-in storage for the pen on the tablet itself, Sony includes a plastic clip that adds an easy (if slightly kludgy) way to keep the pen and tablet together. Digitizer pen features two buttons, for adding the right and left functions of mouse clicks. A drawback of this and other digital pen, however, is the need for a battery. No need to replace the batteries often, but when you do, you'll need a very AAAA battery.