I Can't Find a Single Productive Use For My Tablet
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I Can't Find a Single Productive Use For My Tablet
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#2I travel with a laptop but I still use my tablet every day in meetings to take notes (I have an external keyboard cover) and to catch up on emails on the train. It is in use pretty much all day.
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#3I find this wildly at odds with the experience of my friends. Granted they are early adopter type folk but they have taken to tablets extremely intently. They use them for gaming, and browsing, and other miscellaneous activities. Just because they are not great at everything doesn't mean they can't be incredibly useful tools.
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#4I tough similarly, but now I have found spot for tablet in my life.
It is not my home work tool. Hell no, downgrading from three screens to one small? no.
I use low end Android phone, so I charge it only twice a week, but this means I cant use it for other purposes so well. Tablet is the thing I take with me whenever I leave house or go on a bigger trip. Battery life+ portability. Traveling abroad, maps, internet, hostels, emails, everything. It is perfect for these things, better than laptop. It is nothing I would prefer over real computer inside the house. But I prefer it every time I leave the house.
nexus 7 is my choice.
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#5I travel with a laptop but I still use my tablet every day in meetings to take notes (I have an external keyboard cover) and to catch up on emails on the train. It is in use pretty much all day.
Android tablet, Window-8 tablet or iPad?
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#6For me it's reading.
This is why I think that things like the Samsung ATIV and the Asus Transformer Book are so neat. For most things I do - writing code, writing emails, posting my inane thoughts on Hacker News, the laptop form factor is pretty ideal.
I really like the book form factor for reading texts. For novels, my Kindle is great, but for textbooks and technical books, with a lot of random access, I much prefer a tablet to a laptop, and to the weight/space requirements of a dead tree book. I have the Kindle DX too, which is a pleasure to read, but the lack of random access is killer.
That said, I never have my tablet when I have my laptop, since it's more stuff to carry around - which is why I think if they were one and the same, it'd be ideal.
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#7I can't find a single productive use for my TV, but I'd be an idiot if I called it a "short lived fad".
Re: I Can't Find a Single Productive Use For My Tablet
#8For me it's reading. This is why I think that things like the Samsung ATIV and the Asus Transformer Book are so neat. For most things I do - writing code, writing emails, posting my inane thoughts on Hacker News, the laptop form factor is pretty ideal. I really like the book form factor for reading texts. For novels, my Kindle is great, but for textbooks and technical books, with a lot of random access, I much prefer…
I use mine for document reading as well, after lecture I put all my readings in dropbox and read them on the long bus ride home.
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#10Makes a good, if expensive, toilet and commute reader.