Anyone trade their laptop for a tablet?
 

I have a laptop I use occasionally if am traveling and need to work or over the GF's and working etc. It's always worked fine, but its starting to get a little old and I'm thinking about getting a new one. I have thought about just getting a tablet and a Bluetooth keyboard for it. MS Office has mobile apps I can use for work stuff.

Has anyone done this? If so, how was it if you had to work for a while? My worry is that the screen will be too small if I end up working for several hours. Also, if you did do this, what type of tablet did you go with?

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i couldn't if i wanted to im not good as using tablet i dont like having to use fingers to control my screen etc i have to work from my 17" laptop only way i can draw and create things on photoshop.

I like to use a tablet to quickly check statistics, emails, news, etc. But computers are irreplaceable for developers, Android is too restrictive for coding and editing photos and videos.

why you don't get a Chromebook? for example a acer 14 or asus - is a cheap, 10-12h battery and you work much faster than tablet.

That's an idea. Right now I have a 17 inch laptop and it is kind of big to take with me. I want to downsize so maybe a small chromebook would work for me.

I don't think a tablet replaces a laptop, its just a tool to use with it, I take both on holiday, laptop for the room and tablet to carry around.

I look for the newest out of china, running windows 10 and always use with wireless mouse

Bought at least 10 over the years thinking that but always end up giving it away because I don't ever use them. My 2.5yo is using the latest after destroying 3 of the cheap kid versions.

I have a full PC for work, and a Laptop for downstairs, but for traveling.... I use a Microsoft Surface. It's a tablet that is a full PC. I use the Surface at home as a tablet, but also have it hooked up to a monitor at it's own work station. It's great for traveling - small, take it on the airplane, etc.....

This is my Surface in my master bedroom - that's the Surface on the right, and a monitor hooked up on the left.

https://scontent-sjc2-1.xx.fbcdn.net...47&oe=5AD16E43

Yes -- a 10" and and 8" much less weight and bulk. Good excuse not to do any serious work when I travel

I bought an Asus Chromebook 2 months ago to replace my 15" HP craptop. I will never, ever go back.

The Chromebook is fast, super lightweight, small (but not too small), cool, and drop-dead silent (no fans). Touchscreen if I need it. Backlit keyboard. Amazing battery life. Folds into a tablet format if I want it (which I never do). And Chromecast is the greatest invention ever for watching porn, Youtube, etc.

Best of all... no Windoze.

I use it constantly and love it more than anything I've ever used -- other than my self-built desktop machine.

This is the one I bought.
Amazon.com: ASUS Chromebook Flip C302 with Intel Core m3, 12.5-Inch Touchscreen, 64GB storage and 4GB RAM: Computers & Accessories

I narrowed it down to that one and the top-of-the-line Samsung. The Asus won (for me) because I wanted the backlit keyboard.

I love my macbook air, there are lots of windows laptops the same size / weight these days. I find my tablet isn't very useful for work.

That looks great. I'm curious what you think about the weight of it. It is very light for a laptop, but part of the reason I was thinking about a tablet was that I also want to use it an E-reader (like a kindle). I could use this for that, but I wonder if it would get heavy trying to hold it up like a book.

Yeah, it's light, but not that light. You'll get tired pretty quick if you aren't resting it on something.

The plain b/w Kindles are perfect for reading, portability, glare, etc. :2 cents:

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I skip between both. But nothing beats laptop on things like spreadsheets.

i use both :thumbsup

Thanks for the info. This thread has given me food for thought.

I use a tablet 90% of the time for internet browsi g but my laptop is still needed. I did use a surface pro 3 for a while, it was very close but too big to be a tablet and too small to be a laptop. The touch screen wjth a stylus was awesome though.

I have the cheapest Microsoft Surface Pro 4, which doesn?t have any cooling fans and uses an SSD disc. Quick, dead silent, with the magnetic click-on keyboard which also doubles as screen protector. On my desk, I hook it up with one cable to a docking station with dual monitors and bluetooth mouse and keyboard.

It really is the best solution for me. I can fold it up, remove one cable and be out the door in one minute. It is a full Windows computer, with all programs and functionality and my desktop looks exactly the same, with all programs installed, whether I am home or on the road. Can clearly recommend it!

Yep, I love my Surface.

At this point size doesn't matter. You can hook up anything to a monitor, bluetooth keyboard and mouse, and it's all the same.

I have both a tablet and a Macbook Air, and I prefer the Macbook. Speed aside, using it for work is just faster. I get 10 hours of battery life and its almost the same size as a large tablet anyway.

You can get tablets that run Windows, but it's a bit clunky, especially when running "desktop" apps. One example is that when I load google.com with a standard browser, the virtual keyboard blocks half of the screen, including the search entry field. I can't see what I'm typing.

I agree that for dev purposes there's no question you'd need something with a real keyboard, and probably a decent screen too!

The Surbook I got from IndieGogo has been awesome

https://www.gearbest.com/tablet-pcs/pp_683978.html

Chuwi SurBook hands-on: A high-performing Surface clone Review | ZDNet

That looks pretty cool.

depends on what you want, its a Chinese clone and comes with clone issues

Some of the advantages are, 6gb ram, 256gb harddrive, 3 full sized usb3 ports, and its those fullsized usb port's that's always made me buy Chuwi tablets, plug any keyboard and mouse in, swap info between devise etc

I couldn't live without a keyboard.

Just picked one of these up though.

http://www.charlesyarbrough.com/wp-c...17/11/acer.jpg

And a mount for it on my kitchen island / desk

http://www.charlesyarbrough.com/wp-c...2028343928.jpg

Primarily what I will use it for is email and skype, working in MS Word and doing stuff in a browser like Chrome. I would also like to use it as an e-reader and maybe watch some movies or TV shows on it.

It won't get used a lot, maybe 3 or 4 times a month for a few hours.