Do you find a tablet useful for work?
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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.
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LOL - I never left that situation. While I've wanted the tablet to be an awesome thing for me, it just never was.
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@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.
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Plays right into your dedicated device for a dedicated purpose.
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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.
