Do you find a tablet useful for work?
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We have a couple cheap Android tablets at work just to use on our intranet. We keep track of maintenance logs, LOTO logs, QC records, visitor log, and some other things like that. A few of the forms need a signature so it helps and you don't have to carry a laptop on the ship floor. If it wasn't for these uses we prob wouldn't have any.
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I currently don't have a need for a tablet. As I begin to take on more roles it may come in handy, but as of yet. I'm good with my desktop.
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I use a tablet for entertainment when home. But still find my Ipad very useful when traveling. I very rarely need to travel with a full laptop anymore.
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I think I'd find a decent, small, reasonably priced, Windows Pro tablet useful.
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I have tried a few of the smaller windows tablets out. They are slow, screens are really dim and just plain annoying, I really keep hoping there is a great one that comes out.
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I'm a big fan of the Surface Pro series... but I don't think I've ever seen anyone actually use them as a tablet. Everyone that I know that has one uses it almost exclusively as a laptop.
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I have tried to use it as a tablet and it's awkward at best since it is so big and heavy even without the keyboard attached.
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At my last job, I loved having a Tablet. I could log in from anywhere I was at and SSH into my Network switches to make a tweak, or remote in to a Server and reboot it... I could even check my helpdesk (Spiceworks) for tickets.
I have a big enough phone now that I don't even need to carry my tablet anymore.
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@coliver said:
I'm a big fan of the Surface Pro series... but I don't think I've ever seen anyone actually use them as a tablet. Everyone that I know that has one uses it almost exclusively as a laptop.
If you just use it as a laptop rather than a tablet, what has it got going for it versus an ultrabook, apart from maybe cost?
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@dafyre said:
I have a big enough phone now that I don't even need to carry my tablet anymore.
That's a good point. I think the rise of big phones has killed the tablet.
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@Carnival-Boy Not completley. You won't find me watching a movie on my phone unless I'm desperate, lol.
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@Carnival-Boy said:
@coliver said:
I'm a big fan of the Surface Pro series... but I don't think I've ever seen anyone actually use them as a tablet. Everyone that I know that has one uses it almost exclusively as a laptop.
If you just use it as a laptop rather than a tablet, what has it got going for it versus an ultrabook, apart from maybe cost?
I don't think it has any distinct advantages.
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@Carnival-Boy said:
@coliver said:
I'm a big fan of the Surface Pro series... but I don't think I've ever seen anyone actually use them as a tablet. Everyone that I know that has one uses it almost exclusively as a laptop.
If you just use it as a laptop rather than a tablet, what has it got going for it versus an ultrabook, apart from maybe cost?
That's the question I've always asked
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@Carnival-Boy said:
@coliver said:
I'm a big fan of the Surface Pro series... but I don't think I've ever seen anyone actually use them as a tablet. Everyone that I know that has one uses it almost exclusively as a laptop.
If you just use it as a laptop rather than a tablet, what has it got going for it versus an ultrabook, apart from maybe cost?
It doesn't often win on cost either.
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@dafyre said:
@Carnival-Boy Not completley. You won't find me watching a movie on my phone unless I'm desperate, lol.
I have on a plane
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@Dashrender Like I said... unless I'm desperate. But I managed to cram my laptop at the time in my backpack for the plane.
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@Carnival-Boy said:
@coliver said:
I'm a big fan of the Surface Pro series... but I don't think I've ever seen anyone actually use them as a tablet. Everyone that I know that has one uses it almost exclusively as a laptop.
If you just use it as a laptop rather than a tablet, what has it got going for it versus an ultrabook, apart from maybe cost?
This is where MS is currently failing. The developers haven't seen a need to develop 'tablet' apps for Windows yet. We might get lucky and start to see them now that Windows 10 is out.
But then we have the problem that Minion Queen mentions - to large and heavy for the everyday person to use it as a tablet.
It's something I wonder if can ever really work. The forced separation of the iPad from the MacOS devices force users into buying two devices each geared more toward a specific use.The blended nature of Windows 10 and more current technologies (Surface devices) will lead consumers (and business folks) into thinking they can get away with a single device and probably wind up frustrated in both scenerios - i.e. to large and heavy for real normal tablet use, and to small and not powerful enough for laptop/desktop use.
It might require someone to take the brave step of making a $400-500 device that is the same size as the iPad running Windows 10, and pair it along side a full laptop or desktop. That ad campaign practically writes it self.
It reminds me of the HP 4 device bundle Best Buy was doing around 5 years ago. A desktop, cheapish laptop, netbook and wireless router. Of course today we'd replace the netbook with a smaller surface like device. -
@Dashrender said:
@Carnival-Boy said:
@coliver said:
I'm a big fan of the Surface Pro series... but I don't think I've ever seen anyone actually use them as a tablet. Everyone that I know that has one uses it almost exclusively as a laptop.
If you just use it as a laptop rather than a tablet, what has it got going for it versus an ultrabook, apart from maybe cost?
It doesn't often win on cost either.
They never seem very cheap to me. Aren't they quite a bit more than a nice iPad and way more than a decent Android tablet?
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@dafyre said:
@Dashrender Like I said... unless I'm desperate. But I managed to cram my laptop at the time in my backpack for the plane.
I normally do as well, but at that time I didn't have a way to get the movie I downloaded on my phone to the laptop, that is not currently an issue.
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@dafyre said:
@Dashrender Like I said... unless I'm desperate. But I managed to cram my laptop at the time in my backpack for the plane.
That's what I do... and many laptops (not mine) flip or whatever to make that even easier.
