If you’re shopping for a new computer this fall’, you won t find big surprises.But you’ll still have to juggle a lot of technobabble and watch your budget terminology. Perhaps the biggest question for some buyers will be whether to get a tablet or a laptop, now that Apple’s is iPad to proven hit and flood of competitors is on the way.

So, here is my annual fall computer buyers’ guide to simplified road map to the key shoppers must make decisions.I’ve focused on laptops-the most common purchase-but much of this advice also applies to desktops. As always, these tips are for average users doing the most common tasks. This advice doesn’t apply to businesses, to hard – core gamers, or to serious media producers.

Tablets vs. Laptops: If you’re looking for a light-duty, highly portable computer, it’s worth considering the iPad, which starts at $499, instead of a small laptop. This is especially true if you’re in the market for a secondary computer, or one mainly for use on the go.Many owners of iPads, including me, are finding it handily replaces laptop for numerous tasks, such as Web browsing, email, social networking, photos, video and music. It has superior battery life, lighter weight, and it starts instantly. I don’t recommend it for people who are creating documents, spreadsheets and presentations, even though it is capable of those tasks especially long. And I don’t recommend it for users who require, or prefer, a physical keyboard.

If you don’t like the iPad, there will soon be alternatives. For instance, Samsung’s Galaxy Tab, which has a 7-inch screen versus the iPad’s 10-inch display, and runs Google’s Android operating system, will be available this month from major wireless carriers. Sprint, for example, will offer it at $400 with a two-year contract. But some tablet buyers may want to wait till the first half of next year, when many more models will be available, and Apple will likely roll out the second-generation iPad.

Netbooks: These low-cost, low-powered little Windows computers are losing popularity, but are still available, typically for about $350 to $500.They are being hurt by the rise of tablets and by light but larger laptops. Some buyers also find the screens and keyboards are too cramped. But these are evolving. Some have bigger screens and roomier keyboards now. And Dell will soon enter sort of hybrid netbook tablet. Called the Inspiron Duo, this model, starting at $499, has both a regular keyboard and a touch screen that flips around when the lid is closed to act like a tablet.

Windows vs.Mac: Windows laptops can be much less costly and come in many styles and more varieties than Mac laptops. The Macs start at $999, versus as little as $500 for a decently equipped portable Windows. Windows laptops are still dominant. But Apple laptops are stylish and reliable, and usually boot much faster than Windows machines, in my tests. Also, Apple scores high on surveys of customer support.Its latest models, like the new, light MacBook Airs, have extraordinarily good battery life. Macs also aren’t affected by the vast majority of malicious software, have much better built-in multimedia software and, at extra cost, can’t run Windows programs in cases where Mac equivalents aren’t available.

Cost: Most of the popular consumer Windows laptops cost $500 to $800.You can get full-size laptops for as little as $280, but their processors and graphics are weak and some lack webcams. If you can’t afford it, a light but speedy 13-inch machine like the Toshiba R705 offers very good battery life for just under $800. All-in-one desktops typically cost around $1,000 and some, like the HP TouchSmart, offer touch screens with special touch software.Apple’s popular all-in-one iMac starts at $1,199.

Processor: The most promoted chips are Intel’s i3, i5, i7 and core models, the latter two of which can turn on and off some of their functions to boost power or save energy. But there is nothing wrong with buying PC that uses chips from rival AMD, which usually cost less.For average users, Intel’s core 2 Duo older still works just fine, even with the latest software.Intel’s weaker Atom processor line powers most netbooks.

Graphics: Integrated graphics, share the computer’s main memory, which are fine for most common tasks, but costlier discrete graphics, which have dedicated memory, can speed things up by taking some of the load off the main processor. They also are better for games.Some computers have both and can switch among them.

Wireless: more and more laptops are coming with optional cellular modem chips in addition to Wi-Fi. These can be handy while traveling, but be warned that they require to cellular data contract, which can be costly.

Connections: If you plan to connect your laptop to a TV, look for a connector called an HDMI port, which is used on most high-definition TVs. Some also laptops come with a feature called Wireless Display, or Wi-di, which, with an extra-cost adapter, can beam your laptop to a TV screen without a cable.There is a new, much faster USB port, called USB 3.0, but, so far, it’s on very few machines.

Memory: Aim for 4 gigabytes of memory, or RAM, on a new computer, and never settle for less than 2 gigabytes.

Hard disks: A 320 gigabyte hard disk should be the minimum on most computers, though 250 gigabytes is OK if price is key, or if it’s your secondary machine.Solid state disks, which lack moving parts and use flash memory like smartphones do, are faster and use less battery power.They cost much more, but are coming down in price fast.However, they typically offer much less capacity.

64-bit: Many models now use 64-bit architecture, which allows properly written software to use more memory and run faster.If possible, buy 64-bit, which will become more and more important.

Touch: Some Windows 7 computers have touch capability built into the screen, though Windows wasn’t designed with touch as to core element and the combination isn’t ideal.Computer makers try to resolve this with special touch software, which you should try in a store.Apple laptops use huge touch pads as the multitouch surface, instead of the screen.

As always, don’t buy more machine than you need.

Find Walt Mossberg’s columns and videos online at the All Things Digital website, walt.allthingsd.com.Email him at mossberg@wsj.com.

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New, faster, better version of Microsoft Office is coming out Oct. 26 But it isn’t for Microsoft’s own Windows operating system. It is for the Macintosh computers made by the software giant’s archrival, Apple.And, among other things, it will bestow upon the Mac to benefit heretofore available only on Windows: Outlook. The popular email, calendar and contacts program is finally arriving on the Mac in a version that looks and works very much like the Windows version.

The advent of to robust, full-featured Outlook for the Mac isn’t all that’s new in Office for Mac 2011, but it’s a big deal, especially for Mac users, or those wishing to switch to the Mac, who work in companies where Outlook is the standard. These folks already have been able to use the Windows version of Outlook on their machines, using special software that lets the Mac run Windows.But now, they can use a native Mac version of the program that can import data directly from Outlook Windows.

I’ve been testing this new version of Mac Office-in fact, I’m writing this column in its new edition of Word – and I like it a lot.While it isn’t an exact clone of Office for Windows, I found in my tests that each of its key components-Word, Excel and PowerPoint-has been significantly improved and made more compatible with its Windows sibling.

So, even Mac Office users who don’t use Outlook will be pleased by the changes. And, while there are some features in the Windows version still missing in the Mac edition, there are also some new Mac-only features.In general, there’s now more parity between the two.

Like the prior Mac version, Office 2008, released nearly three years ago, the new Office 2011 uses the same file formats as the Windows version.It can read and write Office files without any conversion or translation, so a document produced in, say, Word for the Mac, can be read by a user of Windows Word without the latter even knowing it was created on a Mac and vice versa.

Unlike the 2008 version, the new Mac Office can seamlessly interact with Microsoft’s new stripped down, free, online version of Office, called Office Web Apps. And it can save to, and open documents from, Microsoft’s free SkyDrive online file repository, or its SharePoint online service for businesses.

The first thing Mac Office users will notice about the new 2011 version is its speed. While the 2008 version was faster than its predecessors, this latest version is dramatically snappier.In my tests, all the components launched much, much faster than their 2008 counterparts, and opened even large documents much more quickly.

Another big plus is fidelity with Windows documents.Because the Windows and Mac operating systems are different, fidelity isn’t perfect, but, in my tests, it was much better in this new version. For instance, some fancy word layouts and font treatments created in Windows that formerly looked wrong when opened on a Mac now look the same. This is especially noticeable in Excel, where charts and layouts on complex spreadsheets sometimes didn’t carry over.In my tests, I found that many of these incompatible have been banished.

These improvements, however, fidelity are much better with documents created in the latest Windows version, called Office 2010, and are weaker with those created in older Windows versions. Also, the new Mac version has restored the same macro system present in the Windows version, so automated actions created by power users and companies in Windows documents can now be used in the Mac version.

Still There are some things the Windows version does that the Mac version doesn’t. These include pivot charts in Excel, full video editing in PowerPoint, and the new “backstage” feature that presents and other options in a large, easier-to-use mode printing. But there also are some Mac-only features, including the ability to dynamically reorder PowerPoint slides in a 3D view, plus a new Full Screen view in Word that allows reading and editing documents with no toolbars, or with just a single line of minimal tools.

The radically different Ribbon toolbar that appeared in Windows Office several years ago a series of tabs organized by function-is also in this new Mac version. But, unlike in the Windows version, the new Mac Office retains the familiar menus and toolbar icons, and the Ribbon can be turned off completely, except in Outlook. However, unlike in the latest Windows version, you can’t add custom tabs to the Ribbon.

Outlook replaces Microsoft (MSFT) email, contacts and calendar program in Mac Office called Entourage, which itself succeeded an old, very limited version of Outlook for the Mac produced years ago. Many users found Entourage clunky and complicated, and it couldn’t directly import data from Outlook on Windows.

Microsoft strove hard to make the new Outlook look and work like the one on Windows.There still are some Windows Outlook features the Mac version lacks, such as side-by-side calendars and task status reports, but, overall, I found it worked well.

I was able to import a nearly 3-gigabyte Windows Outlook data file with no problems. And I was able to easily and perfectly import all my messages and settings from Apple’s own built-in Mail program and to sync with Apple’s (AAPL) built-in MAC address book.But Microsoft is still working on syncing with Apple’s iCal calendar program, and the Outlook calendar can’t sync with Google Calendar.Also, while the new Mac Outlook can import Windows Outlook data, it can’t export its data to Windows yet.Microsoft says it is also working on that.

In general, Outlook on the Mac proved fast and capable in my tests.It doesn’t work exactly like its Windows counterpart, but Windows users will find it very similar.And it has some Mac-specific features.For instance, its contents can be easily searched by the Mac’s built-in universal search feature, Spotlight, and can be backed up by the Mac’s Time Machine backup system.

Office for Mac 2011 will be available in two versions for average consumers: to $199 Home and Business edition, and a Home and Student version, which costs $119, but lacks Outlook, whereas Entourage was included in the $149 similarly named 2008 package.Prices on both new editions are higher if you want to install them on multiple machines.There is also $99 special academic edition, mostly aimed at college stores, that includes Outlook, but you cannot option for multiple installations.

Microsoft’s new Mac Office is by far the best Mac version of the suite I’ve used, and I can’t recommend it.

Find Walt’s columns and videos at the All Things Digital website, http://walt.allthingsd.com.

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by Walter S. Mossberg

Nearly four years after Apple unveiled the iPhone, and more than two years after Google introduced its first Android smartphone, Microsoft is launching its effort to catch up. On Nov. 8, AT&T and T-Mobile will begin selling the first phones powered by the software maker’s new Windows Phone 7 operating system.

I’ve been testing two of these initial Windows Phone 7 phones, the Samsung Focus from AT&T and the HTC HD7 from T-Mobile; each will cost $200. Both are slender phones with large screens and virtual keyboards, though the Samsung is thinner and lighter than the HTC.

Microsoft has imposed tight requirements on the new Windows Phone 7 phones—including fast processors, decent screens and adequate memory. However, in my testing this time, I didn’t focus on the hardware. Instead, I bored in on the new Microsoft operating system, set to show up on nine phones this year, including some with physical keyboards.

My conclusion is that Microsoft has used its years in the smartphone wilderness to come up with a user interface that is novel and attractive, that stands out from the Apple and Google approaches, and that works pretty well. Instead of multiple screens filled with small app icons, or the occasional widget, Windows phones use large, dynamic tiles that can give you certain information, like your next appointment, at a glance. And it has special “hubs” for things like contacts and entertainment that use bold, attractive interfaces and offer personalized, updating information.

However, despite having all that time to study its rivals, Microsoft has inexplicably omitted from Windows Phone 7 key features now common, or becoming so, on competitive phones. These missing features include copy and paste, visual voicemail, multitasking of third-party apps, and the ability to do video calling and to use the phone to connect other devices to the Internet. The Android phones and the iPhone handle all these things today.

Plus, because it has waited so long to enter the super-smartphone market, Microsoft is starting way behind in the all-important category of available third-party apps. At launch next month, the company hopes to have about 1,000 apps available for the Windows Phone 7 platform, compared with nearly 100,000 for Android phones and around 300,000 for the iPhone. That means Windows phones will, by definition, be less versatile than their main competitors, at least at launch.

In addition, Microsoft, unlike Apple, has ceded prominent home-screen real estate to the phone makers and carriers so they can push their own apps, like subscription-based TV and navigation services.

To be sure, Windows Phone 7 has a few advantages. These include built-in mobile versions of Microsoft Office (present for years on earlier Microsoft-powered phones) and of its popular Xbox Live gaming service, which also interacts with Xbox game consoles. There is a nice feature that allows the camera to be used quickly, even if the phone is locked. And search works particularly well, including a mode that allows you to enter search commands by voice from any screen. Phone calling also worked just fine, with few failed calls, good voice quality and easy connection to a Bluetooth device I tried.

But I couldn’t find a killer innovation that would be likely to make iPhone or Android users envious, except possibly for dedicated Xbox users. Even the built-in Office can be replicated with third-party Office-compatible apps on competing platforms; and the iPhone and Android phones also can interoperate with Microsoft’s corporate Exchange email, calendar and contact system.

So for now, I see Windows Phone 7 as mostly getting Microsoft into the game, and replacing the stale, complicated Windows Mobile system that preceded it. It will get better. The company is already working on a copy and paste system, and said it is coming early next year. But, today, I see Windows Phone 7 as inferior to iPhone and Android for most average users. It’s simply not fully baked yet.

The main feature of Windows Phone 7 is the Start screen, which takes the form of a long vertical list of tiles that can represent either an app or a hub. The phones lack multiple home screens or traditional folders for grouping apps. These tiles are dynamic: They can show things like rotating photos of friends, or how many unread emails you have.

Microsoft doesn’t intend for you to place every app or feature on the Start screen. Instead, some apps, like games, go automatically into one of the special tile hubs, which combine related functions. And all other apps pre-installed or added to your phone go into another long master list you can see by flicking aside the tile view or tapping an arrow.

It’s a clean, simple, different approach. But there is a downside. As you “pin” your favorite apps, contacts, photos or Web sites to the Start screen, the list of tiles grows longer, and you have to scroll further and further to reach some. There is no shortcut for getting back to the top of such a list, as there is on the iPhone.

The hubs have a level of social and functional integration seen on some Android phones and on Palm’s webOS operating system, now owned by Hewlett-Packard. For instance, in the People hub, you not only see your local contacts, but those synced from Facebook or Microsoft’s own Windows Live service. This hub, like the others, borrows the elegant interface from Microsoft’s failed Zune music player, so you can flick left and right to see just recent contacts or to see your friends’ status updates. But the People hub doesn’t have Twitter.

Microsoft sees this combination of tiles and hubs as a “glance and go” interface for quickly seeing important information without opening apps, as on the iPhone. But I was disappointed that more information wasn’t presented on the tiles. For instance, unlike in some Android apps and widgets I’ve used, a stock market tile and a weather tile I downloaded didn’t show on their surfaces the latest information.

The calendar, which syncs with Exchange, Windows Live, or Google, can’t sync with Yahoo or MobileMe, and lacks a week view. The email program syncs with a variety of services, but lacks a unified inbox, so you have to clutter your Start screen with separate tiles for each account.

Another downside for some users: The phones can be used in horizontal view for photos and Web pages, or for typing email, but some screens, like the Start screen and hubs, are fixed in vertical mode.

Microsoft has done a good job with the Web browser, which I found generally comparable in speed and features to the iPhone and Android browsers. But unlike on some new Android phones, it doesn’t support Adobe Flash content.

The built-in Office suite is very nice. It can link to Microsoft’s SharePoint corporate online document system. One of its apps, OneNote, also synced in my tests with Microsoft’s consumer-focused SkyDrive Web file-storage system. It has a nice feature that makes it easy to jump to sections of long documents, allows for making comments on files, and lets you see presentations broadcast over the Internet.

However, this new mobile Office failed to open a simple Word document I tried. Microsoft says this plain document had some hidden corruption, but it opened on an iPhone and Android, and was editable in their Quickoffice app. Microsoft says it is working on a fix.

Music, video and photos all worked well, and you can use a Zune subscription on the phone. I was easily able to sync media files with a Windows PC using a new version of the Zune software, and I also tried a pre-release version of the new Macintosh Zune software, which is more limited, but also worked properly.

The Microsoft app store, called Marketplace, worked fine, and has a nice try-before-you-buy feature for some apps.

Last but not least is the Xbox Live hub, the center for gaming. It contains games from Microsoft and other developers, and includes your avatar from the Xbox Live service. You can socialize with, and play against, others on the service. For Xbox Live fans, this is mobile heaven.

Overall, I can’t recommend Windows Phone 7 as being on a par with iPhone or Android—at least not yet. Unless you’re an Xbox Live user, or rely on Microsoft’s SharePoint corporate Web-based document system, it isn’t as good or as versatile as its rivals.

Write to Walter S. Mossberg at walt.mossberg@wsj.com

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Some of the nicest, if little discussed, benefits of using an Apple tablet iPad are that it starts instantly, resumes where you left off, and has a long enough battery life that you aren’t constantly fretting about running out of juice or looking for to place to plug it in. And it can do a lot of things for which people use laptops.

What if somebody designed an current laptop that worked this way – you know, a computer with a real keyboard and a larger screen that could run traditional computer software and store more files than an iPad? And what if it was almost as light and portable as an iPad? Well, somebody you have, and that somebody is Apple itself.

The computer in question is the company’s new MacBook Air, which went on sale last week, starting at $999-a price that’s very low for an Apple laptop, though hardly to bargain for a Windows one. The new Air comes in two sizes.The base $999 model has an 11.6-inch screen (vs. 9.7 inches for an iPad) and weighs 2.3 pounds (versus 1.5 pounds for an iPad). The larger-but still thin and light-model starts at $1,299, has a 13.3-inch screen, and weighs 2.9 pounds.

I’ve been testing both versions, but especially the 11.6-inch model, and I find that, despite a few drawbacks, they really do offer the different, more iPad-like experience Apple claims they do.Battery life is strong, and the wake up from sleep is almost instant, even after long periods of being unused.

Their predecessors in the Air Like family, these are gorgeous, very thin and light, but very sturdy aluminum computers. And, like their predecessors, or like iPads and smartphones, they rely on solid-state storage-flash chips instead of conventional hard disk to hold all your files.But Apple has dramatically reduced the physical size of the flash storage to make room for larger sealed-in batteries, so battery life is longer.It has also cut the price from the last version of the Air, a 13-inch model that cost $1,799 with a solid state drive.

Also, the company has re-engineered the way these new Airs sleep, adding a long “standby” period of very low power consumption that Apple says lasts up to 30 days. This standby mode kicks in after about an hour of idle time, and replaces the traditional system, where your current activity is saved to hibernation to conventional hard disk just before the battery dies. With hibernation, getting back to where you were can be slow and somewhat uncertain.With the new “standby” mode, the process just takes a few seconds, only a bit longer than normal sleep.

These are just the first of a number of changes Apple plans in order to make its computers behave more like the iPhone and iPad, without losing their greater power and more traditional keyboards, and mice, and ability to run programs conventional touchpads.

For instance, Apple has said it will soon enter an “app store” for the Mac, which would make it simpler to find and download programs for the computers, and notify users of updates. And it will also roll out, in its next Mac operating system, called Lion-due next summer-a system of apps icon screens, like those on iPhone and iPads, that you can flick through with the company’s multitouch touchpad gestures.

In my harsh battery tests, I found the two new Air models almost matched Apple’s claims, even with all power-saving battery features turned off, Wi-Fi kept on, the maximum brightness and a continuous loop of music playing on screen.The 11-inch model lasted four hours and 43 minutes versus Apple’s claim of up to five hours. The 13-inch model lasted six hours and 13 minutes, versus Apple’s claim of up to seven hours.

This means that, in normal use, with power-saving features turned on, you’d be almost certain to meet, or exceed, possibly Apple’s claimed battery life. For comparison, I did the same battery test on a new Dell 11.6 – inch model, the M101Z, which costs about $450, but is much thicker and heavier than the smaller Air, and uses conventional hard disk.It got only two hours and 41 minutes of battery life, which means that in normal use you’d probably get three to four hours.

The new models are designed to hardly ever require a traditional bootup or reboot.The idea is that you’d only reboot if you had a problem, or installed software that required to reboot, or if the machine had been idle and unplugged more than a month. But even booting is very fast.

In my tests, to cold boot took 17 seconds and a reboot, with several programs running, took 20 seconds. By contrast, the Dell I tested took more than three minutes to fully boot up and be fully ready for use.

Unlike many netbooks, these two new Apples on also have high screen resolutions so you can fit more material into their relatively small sizes.The 13-inch model has the same resolution as Apple’s 15-inch MacBook Pro and the 11-inch Air you have greater resolution than the 13-inch MacBook Pro. Also, unlike on many netbooks, they feature full-size keyboards, though the 11-inch model has reduced-size function keys.

The new Airs aren’t meant to be the most robust machines.They use last-generation Intel processors and have only two gigabytes of memory in their base configurations, and their storage is well below typical hard-disk capacities.

For example, the 11-inch, $999 model has a paltry 64 gigabytes of storage; the 13-inch model starts at a still-weak 128 gigabytes of storage, and even the high-end version of the larger model, which costs $1,599, you’ve just 256 gigabytes of storage.And neither storage nor the memory can be expanded the once you choose your initial specs.

I’d recommend buyers of the 11-inch model spend $200 more to double the storage to 128 gigabytes.And people doing a lot of video editing might want to double the memory on either model to four gigabytes, for an extra $100.

Also, as with the earlier Air models, these two lack to DVD drive and an Ethernet port.Apple sells an external drive for $79 and an Ethernet adapter for $29.If you add in all these extras, prices can quickly climb.

They also lack ports called HDMI ports, becoming common on Windows PCs, for easy connection to televisions, and their keyboards aren’t backlit.The two new models do, however, have two USB ports instead of the single USB port in the older Air.

I was surprised to find that even the base $999 model was powerful enough to easily run seven or eight programs at once, including Microsoft Office, iTunes and the Safari browser with more than 20 Web sites open.It also played high-definition video with no skipping or stuttering.

So, if you’re a light-duty user, you might be able to adopt one of the new Airs as your main laptop.If you’re a heavy-duty user, who needs lots of power and file storage, they’re likely to be secondary machines.

Overall, Apple has done a nice job in making these new MacBook Airs feel more like iPads and iPhones without sacrificing their ability to work like regular computers.But, as always with Apple, you’ll pay more than you will with Windows PCs.

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