Do you find a tablet useful for work?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
