Latos One of the enefits of using a lato is the hardware included on the roduct. Latos come with full keyoards, large screens and much higher screen resolution than you would find on any talet. A full, hysical keyoard is a desired feature for many individuals who do not like to tye on a touchscreen. You can tye much faster and more accurately using a full keyoard. The screen is also much larger for viewing hotos, rowsing the we or even enjoying entertainment content. For a full lato, not a netook, your screen size will e 13 inches or larger, deending on the tye of roduct you urchase. Latos are also more durale than talets, and you wont have to worry aout scratching or damaging the touchscreen dislay. Talets These highly ortale comuting devices give you full control of the screen, features and alications. By using your finger or a stylus, you can directly touch the screen to make gaming more interactive, and the hands-on aroach rovides a more tactile exerience than a mouse for drawing and illustrating. Comared to lato comuters, these roducts are small. Most talets offer anywhere from a 7-inch to a 10-inch dislay screen and weigh less than 1 ound. You can store all your music, cature hotos or videos, video chat and even read ooks on their uilt-in eReaders. Related QuestionsVery high volume on Windows 10 when any media starts layingFor anyone facing this issue with Realtek drivers I have found that version 6.0.1.7016 of the drivers (Got mine from Dell's wesite) stos the volume raising issue.This is how I went aout installing the drivers to sto Windows from udating them:Download 7-Zi from here and install it. (I use the 9.38 Beta which works fine under Windows 10.)Download drivers from Dell here make sure to Choose the first download ending in A00.exe. Do not Install them yet!Right click on the downloaded driver ackage 7-Zi-Extract to- "XPS_8700..." Download the wushowhide utility from Microsoft here.Go to Device Manager. You can find it simly y tying "Device Manager" into the Ask me anything search ar. Under Sound, video and game controllers right click on Realtek and choose Uninstall from the Menu. Check the checkox for "Delete the driver software for this device" and click Ok.Restart your machine.Run the wushowhide utility click Next then click on - Hide Udates Check the checkox for Realtek Semiconductor Cor... and click Next and run through the rest of the utility. Comleting this ste is crucial or Windows Udate will continue to install udated drivers that reak your sound.Go ack to Device Manager and once again under Sound, video and game controllers right click on Realtek and choose Uninstall from the Menu. Check the checkox for "Delete the driver software for this device" and click Ok.Do not restart this time when it asks you to.Go to the XPS_8700 folder where you extracted the drivers go to the RealtekHDAudio folder and inside of it run Setu.The Setu alication will install the old drivers and restart your machine. This worked for me on my deskto machine, ut I cannot guarantee it will work for everyone with Realtek on-oard sound. However it is worth a shot if you have Realtek on-oard sound, enjoy Windows 10, ut cannot handle getting your eardrums rattled every time a new audio stream lays.htts:answers.microsoft.comen-uswindowsforumwindows_10-other_settingswindows-10-volume-rolem-volume-randomly-changese3c96541-edd-471-9619-448f0f9c0d58?auth1------Intel Core processor support for Connected StandbyConnected Standby relies on a set of relatively new power states known as S0ix (active idle). This is explained extensively over at AnandTech, in their introduction to Intel's Haswell architecture:The solution is connected standby or active idle, a feature supported both by Haswell and Clovertrail as well as all of the currently shipping ARM based smartphones and tablets. Today, transitioning into S3 sleep is initiated by closing the lid on your notebook or telling the OS to go to sleep. In Haswell (and Clovertrail), Intel introduced a new S0ix active idle state (there are multiple active idle states, e.g. S0i1, S0i3). These states promise to deliver the same power consumption as S3 sleep, but with a quick enough wake up time to get back into full S0 should you need to do something with your device. Haswell represents the 4th generation of Core iX processors, and Clover Trail is the Atom Z27x0 series. Moving forward, I think it's safe to say that post-Haswell and post-Clover Trail processors (including Broadwell and Bay Trail as of time of writing) do have S0ix support moving forward.Now, processor support is not the only obstacle. There are many other stringent requirements for Connected Standby to be enabled, most notably:In summary, there are a lot of requirements to be met before Connected Standby is enabled. If the device is a tablet and is pre-loaded with Windows 8/8.1, chances are, it likely does have Connected Standby enabled.If you're looking to disable Connected Standby on a Windows 8/8.1 tablet, you can change the registry setting at HKLMSystemCurrentControlSetControlPowerCsEnabled from 1 to 0 (more information here)------Upgrade/change flavor for my old laptop?I agree. Your laptop is not that old. Mine is older. You can easily upgrade it to the newest version and it will support everything mentioned.I described the upgrade process from 17.04 here:Can't update anything nor download updates from server 17.04Personally, I prefer to upgrade in steps. Not 4 years at once. If you do too, given currently available releases, you will have to upgrade to 16.04 next. From there you could either go 17.10 or directly to 18.04. Again, you'll find the step by step in the mentioned link.Once upgraded you can take additional steps to get the apps you want and get everything running. I suggest looking into that at this later point. One step at a time.But for example, you should be able to easily install wine, gimp and inkscape usingI'm not a gamer, but I did install Steam on 3 Ubuntu devices. It has been a while back though. So, I don't remember the process. But shouldn't be too hard.One step at a time. Start with the upgrades first, then go from there.One more thing: if you choose to install a new version instead of upgrading, I too would suggest some alternative option, not the mainstream Unity version. Personally I favor Mate. It might not be the lightest, but it is lightweight. But the reason I like it is, it is quite stable and reliable. For example, with Unity I missed my mouse cursor on some device. While Mate worked without trouble out of the box. XFCE for example too is very light on load. However, although it seems to offer more configuration options, my experience is, it's less stable than Mate. I'm sure I tried LXDE, but I don't remember why I went with Mate instead. This is my personal opinion, but it seems, the Mate version is less troublesome these days? I see a lot of questions by Lubuntu users.------Citrix XenApp alternative? closedI am a certified XenApp 6.5 Admin.Basically, you are going to need an entire Windows Domain in order to get XenApp running.This means paying for Window Server licensing fees, buying a huge server with an i7 and loads of memory, paying for Citrix XenApp licenses, etc.This is the reason that it will be overkill for a single user with a single application.XenApp is not for you.Now, your next bet would be to see if your Chromebook uses an x86 processor (not an ARM) processor.-If your Chromebook uses an ARM processor... sell it and or get a laptop/tablet with Windows that will run your application.If your Chromebook happens to use an x86 processor AND your program works at Platinum level under WINE (https://www.winehq.org/) (You can find out how well it works searching in the WINE AppDB, https://appdb.winehq.org/), then you might be able to make it work by installing Ubuntu on your Chromebook, then installing WINE, and then installing your program.If you are unable/uncomfortable installing Ubuntu on your Chromebook and or your program does not run at Platinum level using WINE: Sell your Chromebook and or get a Windows laptop to run your program.TL;DR:If your Chromebook is x86 AND you can install Ubuntu AND your program runs at Platinum level using WINE, then install Ubuntu, install WINE, install your program.If not, then get a Windows laptop/tablet.------Remote into Windows 10 from Android - the risksAre you worried that you could lose your phone or tablet and someone who found it could access your PC? That is always possible, but do you do banking on your tablet? I guess it all comes back to passwords. Use something strong not just a simple swipe pattern.You mention the AVG on the tablet? Are you concerned about malicious software "jumping" from tablet to PC? or vice-versa?You need to balance your need for security with the benefit of the remote access.I use this ALOT - to manage my Plex Media Server mainly -On Android I use RD Client - it is the mobile version of Microsoft's long standing Remote Desktop (which I also use all the time to control my pcs at home) - I use this on the LAN only and works brilliantly, I am very impressed with it.When I am remote - I use Chrome Remote Desktop - again works brilliantly, but it does mean I have to have a permanently signed in Chrome extension - and as much as I trust Google with all my info... that sometimes makes me wonder how much access they have. So perhaps a risk there?Chrome:https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/1649523?coGENIE.Platform%3DDesktop&hlenMicrosoft:(LAN)https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn473010(vws.11).aspx------Wifi connectivity problem in 16.10 with Driver RTL8723B Wireless LANFrom the usb.id you posted above and from lsmod, we see that your device uses the driver rtl8xxxu. When you run a live session from the USB, check to see what driver is loaded:It is a relatively new driver and, so far, we are unaware of any problems. Of course, it is easy enough to find out for sure. Run the live session for a few days and try it. If it works correctly, then proceed to install Ubuntu.If you are still having trouble connecting, please check the settings in the router. WPA2-AES is preferred; not any WPA and WPA2 mixed mode and certainly not TKIP. Second, if your router is capable of N speeds, you may have better connectivity with a channel width of 20 MHz in the 2.4 GHz band instead of automatic 20/40 MHz, although it is likely to affect N speeds. I also have better luck with a fixed channel, either 1, 6 or 11, rather than automatic channel selection. Also, be certain the router is not set to use N speeds only; auto B, G and N is preferred. After making these changes, reboot the router.Next, I recommend that your regulatory domain be set explicitly. Check yours:If you get 00, that is a one-size-maybe-fits-all setting. Find yours here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1_alpha-2 Then set it temporarily:Of course, substitute your country code if not Iceland. Set it permanently:Use nano or kate or leafpad if you don't have the text editor gedit.Change the last line to read:Proofread carefully, save and close the text editor.Next, I'd set IPv6 to Ignore in Network Manager: http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/18/html/Installation_Guide/images/netconfig/network-connections-ipv6-ignore.png This example is for ethernet, but you want wireless