The new Windows tablet de Lenovo is presented as a more natural alternative, logically, to the Galaxy Book 12, but it is true that for price it should be closer to the tablet Android star of Samsung and it can be a very interesting alternative for those who work comfortably with this operating system. We help you choose with this comparative: Miix 520 vs. Galaxy Tab S3.
Designer
It must be borne in mind that we find here two quite different tablets and the virtues of each one in the design section reflect it, because while in the Galaxy Tab S3 What stands out is the aesthetics (with a spectacular glass casing) and the multimedia section (with four Harman Kardon stereo speakers) and some other premium details (such as the fingerprint reader), the Miix 520 It is clearly a device more designed to replace a laptop, with a Surface-style rear support, a keyboard that will be included and a conventional USB port in addition to a USB type C. It must be said about the Samsung tablet, in any case, that It also has an official keyboard (only that it is sold separately) and that does come with an S Pen.
Dimensions
The comparison in the dimension section is quite unfair because the screen of the Galaxy Tab S3 It is much smaller, but it is always interesting to know how much we are winning or losing in this aspect if we bet on one or the other, so we must specify that we have a significant difference in size (30 x 20,5 cm against 23,73 x 16,9 cm) and a very notable thickness also, although it is less important (9,9 mm against 6 mm), but above all it must be taken into account that the weight of the Miix 520 is more than double880 grams against 429 grams).
Screen
As we just said, the screen of the Galaxy Tab S3 is smaller12.2 inches against 9.7 inches) and also uses a different, more square format (4: 3, optimized for reading). For the rest, its superiority over the Miix 520 it's stunning, with Super AMOLED panels, more resolution (1920 x 1200 against 2046 x 1536) and support for playing HDR.
Unlimited
This is where the Miix 520, with processors ranging from a 3th Generation Intel Core iXNUMX to a 7th Gen Intel Core iXNUMX and with a minimum of 4 GB RAM memory and a maximum of 16 GB. In the Galaxy Tab S3 we have instead a Snapdragon 820 y 4 GB RAM memory, but keep in mind that the demands of Android are also incomparable to those of Windows 10.
Storage capacity
Again the victory is for the Mix 520, what part of 128 GB but it can go up to 1 TB internal memory. In any case, with the Galaxy Tab S3 we are going to have 64 GB And, again, we must remember that with Android we are going to lose much less space than with Windows 10. In addition, both have a card slot micro-SD, which helps to alleviate the differences.
Cameras
In the event that someone has a special interest in the cameras section, it should be noted that those of the Samsung are much superior, not so much with regard to the front, which is 5 SM, as in what does the main (5 SM against 13 SM).
Autonomy
One of the advantages that Android tablets continue to have over the 2 in 1 Windows is that their autonomy is normally much greater and we would be surprised if the tables changed in this case. We won't be able to say anything conclusively, if at all, until we have comparable real-use test data.
Miix 520 vs Galaxy Tab S3: comparison
As we said at the beginning, the Galaxy Book 12 It is more similar by format and operating system to the tablet of Lenovo, but it is a tablet of a higher level that starts from higher prices than those that we expect to have the Miix 520, which are not confirmed for our country, but that, looking at its predecessors, the normal thing would be for it to rise (not much, at least) from 800 euros for the basic model.
La Galaxy Tab S3 is much closer to these prices, and is in fact cheaper in itself (it is easily found for 650 Euros and sometimes less), so that even if we buy the keyboard official, which is currently on Amazon for 100 Euros, it will probably be cheaper for us. Of course, we have to be clear that in our case we can work comfortably with Android, but if this is the case, we win a much superior device in the multimedia plane, easier to carry with us and with more autonomy surely, in addition to having as an accessory extra a S Pen.