Android or Windows? Currently, we find ourselves with a situation at least, curious, in the field of tablets and smartphones. On the one hand, we find thousands of models on the market, from hundreds of manufacturers and that have different characteristics and prices. On the other, we find three major operating systems that are present in practically 99% of all the more than 1.000 million portable media in the world. However, the absolute leader is the software of Mountain View since it accounts for more than 90% of all users of smart devices, leaving iOS and Windows, the other two leaders, in a position of a certain disadvantage.
To bring greater market share to Windows or, simply, to try to improve the user experience, several manufacturers have started to manufacture devices with dual boot. With this feature, tablets that have it, can run both Android and Redmond software indistinctly and enjoy the features that both offer, especially, with their latest updates, but what is it? Below we will comment on the most important aspects of this benefit and we will tell you what are its and advantages, Its limitations, and also, what can affect our terminals.
What is it?
Dual-booting is an operating system execution mode that first appeared on both laptops and desktops with combinations such as Windows-Linux. It appeared in the tablets back in 2013 and its operation is the same as that of the larger media: The possibility of using various softwares in a single terminal where both use the same hard drive and they also share the RAM.
Where do we find it?
Most of the big brands are not incorporating models with this feature. This fact has resulted in dual booting being something that has been left to a handful of business especially to made in china by firms that are not well known and that are characterized by offering very low-cost models with modest performance. Why has it been neglected? At first glance, everything seems to indicate that it is due to market share reasons since for the operating systems that are included in tablets with these characteristics, having to live with other software on the same support, means for developers, a loss of users each.
What are its advantages?
The main added value of dual booting is the fact that the public can change freely operating system by using your terminal without having to perform a hard reboot. On the other hand, a model that is equipped with Android and Windows can offer a greater user experience since the green robot software is equipped with a application catalog of over a million titles that can serve to solve the deficiencies in this sense that the Redmond system presents, which as we all know, has a reduced number of apps for its users. On the other hand, both systems have a great customization capacityespecially in its latest versions.
And the drawbacks?
As we have mentioned before, the possibility of running two different interfaces on the same tablet means that some components such as the hard disk and RAM are shared. However, this has its drawbacks. The main one is that to execute both, it is necessary to perform a partition which translates into a reduction in both the memory capacity and the internal storage of the devices. For example, a media tablet with a capacity of 64 GB, it would be as follows: To Android some would go 20, with an average of 13-14 GB available to the user. On the other hand, to Windows would correspond some 40, leaving 28-30 GB free for the consumer. This can leave very little room to use other functions of the devices as simple as, for example, the saving of applications, photos and audiovisual content. On the other hand, a powerful processor that it can execute both softwares with ease without compromising the speed and therefore the handling of the devices.
A good alternative?
Dual-boot tablets have been relegated to the background in favor of other devices that have improved their physical characteristics. We are witnessing a boom in convertible or 2-in-1 terminals that get their name from trying to combine the best of various media. For those users who want to experiment with the models available with this format, there are several models made in China available to them, however, they should carefully study their features to see if they can be really useful or not. After learning more about the advantages and disadvantages of dual boot, as well as the fact that we currently do not find many devices with it, do you think that they are a good option that should be available to users, or do you think that If it is not accompanied by very powerful tablets both in memory and in processors, can it be a bad experience? You have more related information available, such as the HiBook launched by Chuwi, a Chinese company, so that you can know some of these models.