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Review My Quest For The Perfect Windows Tablet

Discussion in 'Mobile Devices for All Other Operating Systems' started by charlyee, Jul 13, 2015.

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  1. charlyee

    charlyee Ultimate Insanity
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    @KevinJames, thanks for the great ideas. I just worry about giving someone a device that doesn't work properly. Imagine a young child about to conquer the world electronically when the devices freeze and/or crashes and looses all their scores. The trade-in price at Best Buy is $3.0, which tells you something.

    @palandri, thanks. Three years back that's exactly what I would have done but since then migrating to Windows and Apple I have become used to the stability of the systems and not too keen on messing with custom ROMs. :)
     
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    It's been about a week since I got my Surface Pro 4 and I like it. The keyboard (with finger print reader) is surprisingly good to use, although it makes some noise while using it, but is quite sturdy.

    It has an i5 processor, 4 GB RAM, and 128 GB storage. It gets attention in most meetings I attend after people got used to me bringing a MacBook Air to meetings (running Windows 10).

    I do like the ability to tap the screen as needed and performance has been good. Battery life has been plenty for my daily use as I only bring it to meetings and coffee shops, with some additional use at home in the evenings. I leave the charger at home charge it in the evenings.
     
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    I just came back from a 3 week overseas trip. My Surface 3 behaved impeccably, it was also the easiest to connect to weak wifi.

    The ease of being able to use SD cards and thumb drives were a definite plus, together with full Windows OS.

    There has been quite a few updates and all appear to be for the better.

    So like Goldilocks observed:

    My MBP is too much for everyday simple short time usage.
    My iPad is not enough - limited by Safari/lack of full OS
    My Surface 3 is just right. :) :) :)
     
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    It appears that my "just right" might get replaced and be put on sale. :cautious:
     
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    @charlyee: Well don't leave us hanging. Tell us why? Was it cheating with a Mac? Or worse yet, was it filmed hanging out with Linux?
     
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    Lol, excellent question KJ but it is nothing that exciting or scandalous.

    One of the main reasons that I got it was that a couple of work related websites did not work on iOS and needed a full OS, well they do now so it eliminates that reason.

    With that being the case, I was rarely using it and didn't see much reason to hold on to it.

    Just in case you are interested ;)

    https://r.tapatalk.com/shareLink?ur...&share_tid=84760&share_fid=17383&share_type=t
     
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