Ask HN: Do you use a tablet? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Do you use a tablet?

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Post by SyneRyder » Sat, Sep 05, 2015, 3:42 PM UTC

ant6n wrote: post #4

During my ugrad 2005-2008, I had a convertible tablet pc and took most of my class notes using it in tablet mode. But it had a Wacom pen and no distracting touch input. And when I needed a keyboard, I could just flip around and have a full laptop. To me, modern tablets seem like toys, except maybe the Surface pro (expensive). I have a Samsung Galaxy Note 8 and barely use it. The screen is uncomfortably small for taki…

That's intriguing to me. I love my Galaxy Tab A 8.0 (the successor to the Note 8). S-Note has improved a lot since the Note 8 came out, you can now cut & paste and resize parts of your drawing. I think the screen is larger as well (it's now a 4:3 ratio, not the 16:10 of the Note 8).

I've never tried Windows Journal though, so I'm not sure which features I'm missing out on. S-Note could definitely be improved more.

Re: Ask HN: Do you use a tablet?

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Post by WorldWideWayne » Sat, Sep 05, 2015, 3:43 PM UTC

oskarth wrote: post #20

Every day I see the top comment in a thread being a typical middlebrow dismissal, the type that adds nothing to the discussion. With that in mind, it's really surprising to me that this comment was downvoted. Before I upvoted it, it was grey, and after I upvoted, it was still grey. Who are these people who downvote a perfectly good comment like this? It puzzles my mind. At the time of writing this comment, at least 1…

I did it in retaliation to the person(s) who downvoted someone speaking well of Microsoft products.

If you really want to see how petty people can be, try being a Microsoft fan around here.

Re: Ask HN: Do you use a tablet?

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Post by captn3m0 » Sat, Sep 05, 2015, 3:48 PM UTC

My iPad Air 2 lags way too much for any serious work on iOS8, so I just use iBooks on it and read books.

Re: Ask HN: Do you use a tablet?

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Post by Raed667 » Sat, Sep 05, 2015, 3:49 PM UTC

SandersAK wrote: post #39

I use my iPad exclusively at home. I now never take my work laptop home and it had dramatically made my life better. iPad forces me to be much more switched off but I can still email if need be. It's honestly one of the best things for my work-life balance that's ever happened to me.

As someone who is 24/7 connected and wants to cut-down a little, this is a selling point for me.

Re: Ask HN: Do you use a tablet?

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Post by oskarth » Sat, Sep 05, 2015, 3:50 PM UTC

WorldWideWayne wrote: post #42

oskarth wrote: post #20

Every day I see the top comment in a thread being a typical middlebrow dismissal, the type that adds nothing to the discussion. With that in mind, it's really surprising to me that this comment was downvoted. Before I upvoted it, it was grey, and after I upvoted, it was still grey. Who are these people who downvote a perfectly good comment like this? It puzzles my mind. At the time of writing this comment, at least 1…

I did it in retaliation to the person(s) who downvoted someone speaking well of Microsoft products. If you really want to see how petty people can be, try being a Microsoft fan around here.

I appreciate the honesty and the predicament for someone who likes Microsoft, but surely you can see how this type of pettiness and retaliation is bad for the community? Be better than the Apple fanboys ;)

Re: Ask HN: Do you use a tablet?

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Post by sambe » Sat, Sep 05, 2015, 3:50 PM UTC

captn3m0 wrote: post #43

My iPad Air 2 lags way too much for any serious work on iOS8, so I just use iBooks on it and read books.

Lags? How exactly and what is serious work? I have the last non-Air iPad and it still Senna snappy to me. I'm normally pretty critical of UI performance.

Re: Ask HN: Do you use a tablet?

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Post by song » Sat, Sep 05, 2015, 3:53 PM UTC

omegaham wrote: post #26

oskarth wrote: post #20

Every day I see the top comment in a thread being a typical middlebrow dismissal, the type that adds nothing to the discussion. With that in mind, it's really surprising to me that this comment was downvoted. Before I upvoted it, it was grey, and after I upvoted, it was still grey. Who are these people who downvote a perfectly good comment like this? It puzzles my mind. At the time of writing this comment, at least 1…

I see this on Reddit every now and then - there are people who downvote everyone in a thread just for gits and shiggles. I make a point of upvoting grayed-out posts that I like, so hopefully they'll go right back to black soon.

I wonder if it would make sense for the system to ignore downvotes from users with a high proportion of indiscriminate downvotes.

Re: Ask HN: Do you use a tablet?

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Post by WorldWideWayne » Sat, Sep 05, 2015, 3:59 PM UTC

oskarth wrote: post #45

WorldWideWayne wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I did it in retaliation to the person(s) who downvoted someone speaking well of Microsoft products. If you really want to see how petty people can be, try being a Microsoft fan around here.

I appreciate the honesty and the predicament for someone who likes Microsoft, but surely you can see how this type of pettiness and retaliation is bad for the community? Be better than the Apple fanboys ;)

The comments that I downvoted turned a little grey and weren't even moved downwards much, so it's probably not that bad for the community.

Thanks for your advice, but I find that shoving people's bad behavior right in their face by doing things back to them is a much more effective tool against assholes than just letting them be.

Re: Ask HN: Do you use a tablet?

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Post by Bjartr » Sat, Sep 05, 2015, 4:02 PM UTC

I have a dell venue pro 8 attached to a repurposed drafting table articulated lamp to hold it in place in front of my couch as a media center remote / quick web browser, so I don't have to find a place for it when I'm done using it and I don't have to check all the places I could have put it when I want to use it, it just "floats" either out of the way or right where I need it.

Re: Ask HN: Do you use a tablet?

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Post by shaded2 » Sat, Sep 05, 2015, 4:05 PM UTC

I found that I hardly used my nexus 7 and my toddler pretty much made it his own. I use my work MacBook for everything I couldn't or did not want to do on my phone.

At some i began to feel like I needed an in betweeen device and a tablet which is essentially a bigger phone was not the answer. Enter the Asus chronebook flip. Its a thin 10 inch chromebook with a touchscreen that flips all the way around and becomes a tablet. It seems to fill that void. Once Google opens up the ability to install more android apps on chromeos, it will be even more useful.