2014 Holiday Gift Guide: Tablets



Apple iPad Mini with Retina Display
A smaller version of the device that started it all, the Apple Mini packs higher-than-HD resolution (2048×1536) into a 7.9-inch Retina display. Its new 64-bit A7 chip has four times faster CPU performance and eight times faster graphics, according to Apple. The Mini uses two Wi-Fi antennas instead of one, and the cellular model supports LTE. From $419.

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There’s no doubting the popularity of the tablet computer. Technology research firm IDC is forecasting that the holiday crush will sell 84 million tablets in the fourth quarter of this year. That would surpass PC sales for the first time in a quarter, a shift the company sales will be permanent by 2015. So what tablets will we be finding — or putting — under the tree this season?

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Dave Webb
Dave Webb
Dave Webb is a freelance editor and writer. A veteran journalist of more than 20 years' experience (15 of them in technology), he has held senior editorial positions with a number of technology publications. He was honoured with an Andersen Consulting Award for Excellence in Business Journalism in 2000, and several Canadian Online Publishing Awards as part of the ComputerWorld Canada team.

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