![]() It did okay for triage-type work and basic EMail use, but there’s no way it could handle the regular day-to-day workload that my laptop does. A year or so back, I was visiting relatives and had problems with my laptop’s power adapter – it was 4 days until I could get a replacement, so I decided to see how well my Android tablet could fill in. It’ll take more convertible sales, and someone big like adobe pushing their CS to android before it’s viable for laptop use.įor now, Win8.1 is the only choice if you actually want to do more than play angry birds and watch youtube.įully agreed. Trying to fill out HTML forms is a nightmare.Īndroid should get there eventually, but it’s not there *yet*. The iPad *still* has more tablet-oriented apps, with developers appearing to view android as a phone OS.įor convertible use, it’s even worse The clipboard and UI are simply not designed with keyboards in mind, so tabbing and tapping galore are required.Ĭopy-pasting large gobs of text from one app to another can cause crashes. The tablet applications just aren’t there, and aren’t up to scratch – even for web browsing and note-taking. I thought that tablets with keyboards (android convertibles) were able to replace most use-cases for casual users.Īs it turns out, after buying a note 10.1 2014 for my partner (has a note 2, loves the stylus), that is still not the case – we ended up grabbing a MBPr 13″ not a month later (cheapest way to get High-DPI, OS X is nice, etc.). ![]() Does it do a good job of it, considering where Android comes from? It seems like to me that where Windows has the upper hand on the laptop side of the convertible, Android rules on the tablet side of it. ![]() Do any of you have any suggestions here? Any models to look for? Experiences with custom, AOSP-like ROMs?Īn even bigger question regarding Android on convertibles is just how well Android handles laptop-like computing. I’ve also been looking at Android convertibles, and here I run into a bit of trouble – most of them tend to run outdated versions of Android, and I’m really not looking forward to figuring out which of them have the best AOSP support. There’s also an 11″ Miix 2 which sports the same processor as the Surface 2 Pro, but 11″ seems a bit large in my view. The Surface 2 Pro is also interesting, but quite expensive – although it does have a far better processor than the 10″ Miix 2. It’s supposed to end up at around EUR 400-500, which is acceptable. The tablet side of Windows 8.1, however, is still woefully underserved, with very few applications, and even those that do exist are of abysmal quality.Īs far as hardware goes, the Lenovo Miix 2 10″ (not to be confused with the older Miix 2!) has really grabbed by attention. ![]() An x86-based convertible Windows 8.1 machine, however, still has some major appeal due to its excellent desktop application support that fits in nicely with my existing workstation. ![]() Since I’m in the market for a replacement for my dreadful ARM Surface RT, I’ve been looking at this market segment again, and have noted that there’s a lot of choice out there.Īfter the dreadful experience with the Surface RT, I’m steering clear of anything Windows RT-related. I think their popularity started with early Asus Transformers, but since then, they’ve become a pretty big staple in the device landscape. ![]()
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