Do you find a tablet useful for work?

Dashrender

@ajstringham I definitely used swipe before my current keyboard Minuum. Check it out (though I don't think they have a free trial )

I'm still getting used to it, the spell check or maybe better said predictive nature of Minuum is much better than Swype, and it learns your typing pattern to offer the words your more likely to use.

Semicolon

My wife's got a...uh...nook. I'm not the biggest fan, but it was a gift from her mother. That being said, I can use PowerShell Web Access on it, which is sometimes all I need.

thanksajdotcom

@Semicolon Wait, say what?! o.0

Minion Queen

@semicolon really PowerShell on a Nook?? Ok that is pretty cool

Semicolon

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh831611.aspx

PowerShell anywhere, really.

Minion Queen

Well I will have to say I will not be doing that I would break something

art_of_shred

No Windows tablet here, but my ipad is a wonderful tool, that I use primarily to browse 9gag and Youtube while lying in bed or taking a bath. As for work, I have a PC. 'nuff said.

Dashrender

I did buy a nook when they were new... I rooted it and flashed a new rom.. but I became bored with it quickly. I guess I'm not a real programmer.. ha wait.. I'm not really -

scottalanmiller

I am highly mobile and a tablet is critical for me to remain connected.

Bob Beatty

@Minion-Queen
We just bought 10 Surface Pro 2's - so far, everyone loves them! Surprisingly, the guys who had IPADS say it made their IPAD obsolete. boom!

Minion Queen

I know I didn't like the first versions of them it was horrible to use. But I might check out the newest.

Paul Luciano

I was using my rooted Nook Tablet forever and it worked well at IT Conferences. If I had Wi-Fi and my charger with me, I could easily remote in using RDP 2X and do important work. I was handed an iPad 2 to do testing for a rollout. I have RDP 2X again and find it fairly useful. Once I figured out Notes allows me to save locally and then e-mail, I was good. I installed Sketches so I can scribble diagrams (that can be e-mailed and saved locally). Right now we are preparing for our new CRM rollout. At present it is a very dandy e-reader.

Once we figure out good ideas, it will be useful. I like my 3 screens and a hard drive laden laptop for VPN and VMware vSphere client.

Regards,

Paul "iPhone, iPad 2... what IS going on here?" Luciano, MCSE

Eric

@Minion-Queen I personally do not have one, but I see slot of people using them for notes during meetings or to read the minutes from the last meeting. I don't feel that they are much functional beyond that Dave the few proprietary applications I have seen for internal audits.

scottalanmiller

@Eric said:

@Minion-Queen I personally do not have one, but I see slot of people using them for notes during meetings or to read the minutes from the last meeting. I don't feel that they are much functional beyond that Dave the few proprietary applications I have seen for internal audits.

Dave?

Bud

We just ordered two Surface Pro 2 tablets recently. Hoping to get them in this week and begin evaluation. We felt that it would be great for those times when we want to live the confines of our cave and get out and about in the building.

FiyaFly

My Nexus 10 seldom sees work usage for me. I just don't have the proper tools to integrate it into my systems enough to be useful.

ChristopherO

Not much while I'm at work, I have my quad screen workstation here And when I'm on-site somewhere I have my Helix laptop/tablet combo, though usually in tablet mode. At home I use the iPad for most work-related things when I really have to, rarely break out the Helix at home. However anytime I'm doing major notetaking (Sunday morning ) I love the Helix and OneNote.

I use my Nexus 7 for book reading.

scottalanmiller

Over a year later and ... I've basically stopped using tablets altogether. I used to have workloads where they made sense and I like them as a potential tool to choose. But I don't do that "consuming" work day to day anymore and I don't do things like work from a couch and watch TV anymore. So I've moved to all full computers and have found me tablets to just go idle.

Dashrender

LOL - I never left that situation. While I've wanted the tablet to be an awesome thing for me, it just never was.

scottalanmiller

@Dashrender said:

LOL - I never left that situation. While I've wanted the tablet to be an awesome thing for me, it just never was.

I used one for a long time and it was great. It's just very situational.