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Originally Posted by peaceridge
So, what is your favorite tablet right now? PS I, too, switched to the PW for reading at night and outside in the bright light.
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Favorite tablet?
By far Microsoft Surface Pro.
I had been enthusiastic about iPad in 2010. And I bought iPads 1, 2 and 3 plus mini. In parallel, I bought quite a few Android tablets.
But when I'm honest to myself, all I did was fooling around. Stumbling (BTW: StumbleUpon is one of my favorite apps) around in iTunes and Google Play, permanently installing new apps (at one point, I had about 11.000 apps in iTunes). But rarely actually using any app.
Now, all has changed for me.
I have 2 absolute favorites:
a.) NVIDIA Shield for playing. A dream come true. I hate touch screens for games. For Sudoku it's fine. But from time to time I want to revive the classics like R-Type. Here NVIDIA Shield can't be beat.
b.) Microsoft Surface Pro (2) for the rest.
Instead of stumbling through iTunes or Google Play, I simply can install whatever program I like. And it performs great.
And the unit itself is great. Phantastic touch and feel.
I even tried BlueStacks (emulating Android) and it worked fine. So, should I really miss any app, I easily could use Android in parallel.
And: I love the stylus.
Steve Jobs was right: If you need a stylus for simple tasks like switching apps, the OS did fail.
But I frequently use Microsoft's OneNote. Not for handwriting recognition, but simply for jotting down notes.
I even made 2 presentations in OneNote. The audiences did love it. Totally new experience.
From the touch and feel, #2 would be Google Chromebook Pixel.
But I sold it a few weeks ago. Personally, I simply didn't find a reasonable usage pattern for the (great) touchscreen on a unit, that's basically a notebook.
So #2 actually is my Dell Latitude 10. Another Windows 8 tablet.
Extremely light. And the exchangeable battery is brilliant.