Would you use a tablet as a notebook replacement?

Would you use a tablet as a notebook replacement?

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No.

yeah sure I would
but trouble is they're usually obsolete by the end of the year. tablets are garbage.

Iff the tablet was setup as a proper dumb terminal

Shitposting machine only.

teamviewer actually works extremely well on ipad

LOL WHAT'S A COMPUTER XD

Depends of the tablet, senpai. Some tablets are like 2 years old and still strong, while others are already outdated when they came out and absolutely 0 OS update.

I carry around an iPad in addition to my Thinkpad. Saved me from having to pull out the notebook all the time. It's instant on; don't have to wait for it to start up or shut down. And I can use it in situations where the notebook would be cumbersome or unwieldy to use/carry.

I remember using teamviewer on my old android tablet. Laggy as fuck but back then I was like "holy shit this is the future".

>It's instant on; don't have to wait for it to start up or shut down
There's a Samsung laptop (i think) that does this too because it has a snapdragon soc

I mean I practically already do. I use my 6th gen iPad for 90% of my “laptop” needs. It’s worth mentioning in more of a consumer than a producer with it (I use my desktop for any workloads).

> Have both a crapbook and a chinkpad.
Are you trying to impress both rich and poor hipsters or are you just a contrarian?

I would if the only relevant tablets weren't Chrome OS or iOS based.
>inb4 samshit

Tablets are for full-time mobile gaming and porn.


I bought myself a 7in tablet for porn and it works great for porn. My mom has a 10in tablet for her 40 versions of Farmville and it works great for her.

Not much other reason to use

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this is as close as you get to a replacement.

Movies, Music, Streaming, Sports?

no

My big sister does, but then again I called her "Dumb bitch" when I was like 9 years old.

Only if I can run debian on it.

My XPS 13 does this too if I suspend it.

I'm actually doing that. Full iPad Pro user since 2017. Surprisingly decent.

If the iPad had mouse support I would use it as Remote Desktop client, it would be amazing but the iPad doesn’t support blue tooth mice so it’s utter shit

>using teamviewer

Absolutely disgusting, why not use RDP and a VPN and stop being such a brain let

>lagPad

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>don't have to wait for it to start up or shut down
Thers 's something wrong with your Thinkpad, if you have to wait more than 5 seconds for it to start up. And if 5 seconds are too long, there 's something wrong with you.

is that an ipad 2 running ios 9 lel

Yes but only for casual tasks like shitposting and watching videos.

>that footprint extending all the way back past the screen
>that gaping empty triangle of empty space
>that unstable as fuck design

Yeah no thanks

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I can do most of the business shit on a note8

I tried to use a samshit tablet with jelly bean for that and it worked surprisingly well, even more since it had option for 2 apps on screen. Sadly that tablet was almost unusable last year because almost all the apps on the play store were more ram consuming. Heck, the play store itself became a laggy piece of shit when Google implemented that material design. It worked fine with the old Holo design.

Sure, great for traveling light. Windows 8 tablet (DV8 Pro) is fine for MS Office, older versions of Photoshop, and even some light gaming on Steam. Touch controls are shit but a bluetooth keyboard and mouse makes everything manageable.

i've been using pic related surface pro 3 as my main computer for over 3 years now. Bought it new-in-box with windows 8 for 560$, and replaced the screen once because i'm stupid but it's been fucking perfect otherwise. I have an old laptop setup as a NAS/torrent box for anything that doesn't fit or has to run 24/7 and it's been working out great. I may upgrade to a surface pro 2017 when the 6 comes out, more for extra battery life than anything else

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guys from when i replaced the LCD. it wasn't as hard as people online make it out to be, just requires a good heat source and patience

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I remember wanting a Surface back in the days. Any good?

I do. I offload complex things to servers tho.

surprisingly good, i would have never given it a chance at 800$+. but for under 600 it's been an amazing value. i got the i5 model and it's good enough for anything i need to do but new games and maybe video encoding. i regularly have 20 tabs open while streaming 60fps video and the fan will go on, but it handles it with no problem for hours. only things i wish were better were battery life (i get like 5-6hrs in regular use) and storage size, which the sp2017 both has.

the only issue i've had so far other than breaking the screen is the fan is starting to get noisy, but i've let 1080p60 twitch streams run every night all night while i sleep for 3 years which isn't a normal use case.

pic related: the offending fan. i tried cleaning it when it was open but i think the bearings are worn out. it only buzzes a little when you move it around, it's quiet otherwise

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>i get like 5-6 hrs in regular use
That sounds about right for tablets

>this webm
>yet again
*yawn*

one of my friends has the i5 2017 surface pro and he let me borrow it when my screen was broken, I got 8+ in the same usage. i bring it literally everywhere every day and i could really use those extra 3 hours. having your main shitposting device with all your files (backed up of course) and all your programs with you is just magical. i usually have a bluetooth mouse and the pen hooked up along with the touchscreen and keyboard/trackpad, it's the comfiest mobile setup possible switching input devices for what's best for that specific task. i've wanted something like this at a reasonable price point since 2005 when i realized my pocket pc was basically a toy

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Actually I do.
Sometimes. Bringing my ipad and a small bt keyboard with me is pretty comfy and I can handle lightweight, work related stuff on it.

Nice. I was thinking on switching to a tablet since my laptop is way too bulky and I'm using touchscreens more lately.
Sad thing is seeing Android tablets pretty much dead at this point and I'm not sure if I want to spend so much money on an ipad (although I've used them a few times and they are quite snappy). Surface tablets never existed in my country.

Guy who manages 500 surfaces at work here
Dont buy one. All the big boy OEMs make their own in the same form factor that are 10x better, with special mention to Hp and surprisingly, Acer. Personally I would go for a 'convertable' laptop aka the Lenovo Yoga 'Thinkpad' 370 instead because having a self supporting screen and a not shit keyboard is a godsend, but if you want the tablet form factor, stay the fuck away from Microsoft devices. Win10 is surprisingly good with touch as your primary input with a few tweaks.

Acer has been doing that retarded shit way before anyone else that's why they are so good at it.

My surface pro 3 works pretty well as a notebook

Got a Surface Pro 3 yesterday, i7 512GB for the equivalent of $700, really liking it so far compared to the crappy laptops I've had in the past (I have a desktop as well so it's not my main machine).

Concerning the storage, is it soldered in the Pro 3? I remember reading about a guy that cut the rear of a Surface open (under the kickstand) to upgrade the capacity but don't remember what model it was.

What's don't you like about them, that the other companies do better? Other than the keyboard, that's partly personal preference.

Tbh tablets and laptops are obsolete. The future is using your phone and plugging it into a dock.

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too bad windows doesnt run 32bits apps

Storage is removable on the pro 3, but removing the screen is almost guaranteed to break it (why someone would bother to cut the back). i'm stupid, and didn't change mine while it was apart. it's M.2 but half the length of a normal SSD, i couldn't find one i liked for a good price and kinda forgot about it.

here's another pic of a SP3 mobo. you can see the ssd slot and the retaining screw at the top of the mobo

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Yes. It's ancient. And just about every linux distro I've tried to install thinks something is wrong with the Crucial SSD I bought for it. So I've gone back to the HD it came with.

If you don't recognize the utility of instant-on with a handheld device, then somthing's wrong with you. A longer startup is acceptable with a desktop device since you're not standing there staring at the screen.

If you're talking about legacy x86 apps, Microsoft developed an emulator to run them on the Windows phone. The problem is Intel is suing them so they are battling it out in court. Google's Fuchsia OS is also coming which offers the same phone desktop convergence.

books, magazines, manga/comics, web/email, 3.6 million apps on Google Play store, etc.

You can even mirror it to a TV. Between this and the Asus Chromebox, I'm honestly amazed desktop computers are still being built when you can get almost anything a regular person would want out of a PC for a fraction of the price and in a portable package.

Microsoft should just release a gaming box that has web functionality and get rid of any reason to own a PC. Oh wait, they did.

lol just buy a chromebook 2-in-1 or something

I'm thinking about grabbing a Surface for presentations and in the go 3D modeling.

How does yours stand up against strenuous programs?

I mean I use it as a POS at work and it's pretty badass.

Reasons I don't like Surface:
Huge failure rate - not the cosmetic faults like the light bleed, which is present on all 500 of ours and is abhorrent, but mission critical stuff like won't turn on, wont charge, touch screen stops working, 4 month old battery swells to 3x its size and/or holds 15% of what it should charge wise. This plus being glued shut (I know for example Lenovo's Miix range is not a glued piece of shit so it's doable in this form factor) means you have to send it back to MS rather than get a part replaced. You get a different surface back, refurbished, and get to play the lottery again. Most 3rd party places won't do surface repairs by the way. Don't get me started on the Intel and Toshiba drive fiasco with 1803 - MS bootlooped swathes of their own, latest model of Surface Pro with the 1803 feature update because they do 0 internal testing anymore. MS support is a black hole of third parties outsourced to third world shitholes that even if you get email contact rather than suffering through a phone call, their English is so bad you're not going to make much sense of it. If it's surface-based software issues, good luck. They will blame your network, your base install of a win10 iso from the volume license portal having malware (the irony is lost on them) and anything else they can throw at you to fuck you off.

t.
>~500 surfaces
>5% failure rate in 6 months
>currently run like shit despite very good specs

Please buy literally anything else.

I don't do 3D work so can't comment on that. I did stick Photoshop on it today and it seems snappy doing basic photo editing, better than I was expecting really although I don't have any previous experience with modern or high end mobile chipsets.

I'd imagine the pen and multi touch screen would be handy for 3D work as well as the relatively high res display. Battery life may suffer under hard use (I haven't had it long enough to really test and the Windows estimate for remaining battery life varies wildly).

>Please buy literally anything else.
Well, too late now. I'll admit I didn't look at any alternatives, it's hard to weed out ones with the exact features of the Surface (i.e. I'd find a tablet that looks nice but doesn't have a pen, or a touch screen laptop but not a convertible) so it was the only option I knew that definitely had everything I wanted. That said this thing is like 4 years old now and is still working, it's not like a took a gamble on a brand new one.

Cheers for the insight though, perhaps others will appreciate it.

Sweet. I'm just hesitant buying that new new $2500 surface. Not comfortable with that graphics (forget the name) chipset. But that CPU and the rest are perfect for the laptop portion.

How much did you throw down again?

About £540 which converts to about $700. Just looked up the new price and it would've been just under $2k. The graphics in the new top end Surface look to be quite an upgrade over what's in mine (over double the Passmark score) and the CPU's a fair bit better too (6k versus 4k again in Passmark).

Thinking about purchasing the 10.5" pro soon. Wait on refresh or purchase now?

Only if it can run arch linux and has a comfy bluetooth keyboard accessory. Btw I use arch linux.

>Not using the vastly superior Screens software by Edovia
lmfao, teamviewer is aids.
Get a real remote viewer client.

Last Pro was released a year ago, so maybe a refresh is due soon if you want the latest and greatest.

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I would if it ran an OS that was built on a decent language, came with a compiler for that language, and respected the output of that compiler as native programs for the OS, that didn't need to be run through some other app.
Sadly neither Android nor iOS nor Windows Mobile qualifies and there aren't really other OSes sold with tablets. By which I mean actual tablets, not tablet-shaped notebooks.

I use my notebook as a tablet replacement.

seconded.
Lemme do real traditional programing on it and build apps.

>tfw using databases that are difficult to use on mobile
i hate not being able to solely use an ipad

This. 2 in 1>>>>>>>>tablet+keyboard

I'm using my phone as my notebook replacement already and my notebook as my desktop replacement

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