In most cases, the keyboard part provides few, if any, additional features (most often a touchpad, as in the HP Spectre x2). HP Spectre x2, a modern 2-in-1 detachableĢ-in-1 detachable are devices with detachable keyboards. They are convenient for media consumption and non-intensive tasks in tablet mode yet useful for content production in laptop mode.
Models of 2-in-1 PC were each similarly denominated either a 2-in-1 convertible or 2-in-1 detachable, respectively, and despite borrowing the terminology of the pre-2-in-1 PCs, the two species of 2-in-1 PCs are distinct from the two species of pre-2-in-1 PCs because 2-in-1 PCs have additional features of traditional laptops.Ģ-in-1 PCs consist of portable computer components within light and thin chassis, and exemplify technological convergence.
The later 2-in-1 PCs comprise a category that is a sibling to both the pre-2-in-1 convertibles and hybrids.
Both pre-2-in-1 convertibles and hybrids were crossover devices that combined features of both tablets and laptops. Microsoft Surface Pro 3, a kickstand hinge laptop with detachable keyboardĪ 2-in-1 PC, also known as convertible laptop, 2-in-1 tablet, 2-in-1 laptop, 2-in-1 detachable, laplet, tabtop, laptop tablet, or simply 2-in-1, is a portable computer that has features of both tablets and laptops.īefore the emergence of 2-in-1s and their denomination as such, technology journalists used the words convertible and hybrid to denominate pre-2-in-1 portable computers: Convertible typically denominated those that featured a mechanism to conceal the physical keyboard by sliding or rotating it behind the chassis, and hybrid those that featured a hot-pluggable, complementary, physical keyboard.
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