Meh. Even for email I feel a lot less productive on an onscreen keyboard. Sure I’ll read an email on my phone, but often I consciously wait to reply until I’m at a real computer.
Love my surface book, but I can’t see tablets surviving. There’s not enough they can do that a phone can’t, and too much they can’t do that a computer with a keyboard can.
Work provided me with a Surface Pro 3 - I’m dual booting between Windows 10 and Ubuntu (I have run OpenBSD on it :~D) although currently I’m only booting to Windows about once a month. In Ubuntu it all works fine apart from screen rotation - as the screen rotates fine but the touch sensors stay in the original orientation, so mouse control gets awkward.
It’s a really nice device, but I wouldn’t pay for one myself.
Windows for the moment. I mostly work on the JVM these days so it just doesn’t seem worth bothering with, though I do mean to boot a live linux or freebsd at some point and see if it’s any good.
While I don’t agree with some of the points raised by the article - I think it does raise some interesting points about tablets being an effective method for many people to replace their desktop and laptops.
For me the technology is not ready to replace a laptop, but I’m after something that will let be more productive on my daily commute…
What makes this interesting is that the author, Sinofsky, was behind Windows 8 and Microsoft’s “modern” tablet strategy.
Meh. Even for email I feel a lot less productive on an onscreen keyboard. Sure I’ll read an email on my phone, but often I consciously wait to reply until I’m at a real computer.
Love my surface book, but I can’t see tablets surviving. There’s not enough they can do that a phone can’t, and too much they can’t do that a computer with a keyboard can.
Are you running windows on your surface book or something else? If something else, how well does it work?
Work provided me with a Surface Pro 3 - I’m dual booting between Windows 10 and Ubuntu (I have run OpenBSD on it :~D) although currently I’m only booting to Windows about once a month. In Ubuntu it all works fine apart from screen rotation - as the screen rotates fine but the touch sensors stay in the original orientation, so mouse control gets awkward. It’s a really nice device, but I wouldn’t pay for one myself.
Windows for the moment. I mostly work on the JVM these days so it just doesn’t seem worth bothering with, though I do mean to boot a live linux or freebsd at some point and see if it’s any good.
While I don’t agree with some of the points raised by the article - I think it does raise some interesting points about tablets being an effective method for many people to replace their desktop and laptops.
For me the technology is not ready to replace a laptop, but I’m after something that will let be more productive on my daily commute…