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Has anyone here replaced their laptop with tablet / iPad + headless PC
GeordiePaul
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If so how are you finding it? What do you use?
Currently I have an ultrabook which is nice but arguably overkill for my needs most of the time. I've got a fair bit of money tied up in this machine. I work in IT and frankly, I'm getting tired / sick of windows. It's like a high maintenance girlfriend, a total pain and I feel like I'm doing my job at home at times as well as at work. Tablets are a lot less hassle...
I've been using the iPad mini 2 and I've started to come to the realisation that, unlike the android tablets I've used (which I've found are blighted by bugs and find android tablet apps poor compared with their iOS equivalents), I really enjoy the iPad. So it's got me wondering, I was planning to replace the mini 2 with an air 32gb, set up a cheap PC to connect to my TV that will act as a server with xbmc and for file services etc. This could obviously be connected to via rdp so on the very rare occasion I need to do some proper work at home, I still could, but this is a rare event.
I'm just interested to see if anyone's gone the same way and how they are finding it.
Currently I have an ultrabook which is nice but arguably overkill for my needs most of the time. I've got a fair bit of money tied up in this machine. I work in IT and frankly, I'm getting tired / sick of windows. It's like a high maintenance girlfriend, a total pain and I feel like I'm doing my job at home at times as well as at work. Tablets are a lot less hassle...
I've been using the iPad mini 2 and I've started to come to the realisation that, unlike the android tablets I've used (which I've found are blighted by bugs and find android tablet apps poor compared with their iOS equivalents), I really enjoy the iPad. So it's got me wondering, I was planning to replace the mini 2 with an air 32gb, set up a cheap PC to connect to my TV that will act as a server with xbmc and for file services etc. This could obviously be connected to via rdp so on the very rare occasion I need to do some proper work at home, I still could, but this is a rare event.
I'm just interested to see if anyone's gone the same way and how they are finding it.
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I do wonder if I'd be best stocking with Windows as you can get some cheap little micro servers now with half decent specs, just seem to need to add hard disk, ram and OS, and I already have a spare win8 licence...
Decisions decisions....
Precisely my motivation.
The only things that put me off windows tablets are the lack of decent games and the baggage that comes with it being windows which I cannot be bothered to deal with...
MS technologies earned me a lot of money, so I really have nothing against MS
Same here mate, nothing against them at all and I'm in my job because of them, but I don't really want to deal with it, or be reminded of it, when I get home...
We all have laptops and tablets but I still use my laptop more than my tablet. (The others don't).
I'm not sure that helps the OP.
There's still quite a few tasks I prefer to do on the laptop, and, if I have to do anything productive, even stuff like booking a ticket, for some reason I reach for the PC, the tablet seems like slightly harder work, never mind the odd time when I have to do some work.
So.... I think I am going to stick with what I have for now, what I have seems a decent compromise the more I think of it.
I reckon you could get by with a tablet but if you don't have to....
Question is, do I sell the ultra book and bag £500 even though it is a very nice machine, or just use a cheap business laptop shoved in a cupboard (SSD and 4gb so not great but not too shabby) or maybe even seek out a touchscreen laptop or grab a surface.
I wish I could make my mind up on things
In fact, I can't understand why people PAY for Windows when Linux, and all its software, are completely free.
Since I discovered Ubuntu over a year ago, I've never found anything you can do with Windows that you can't do with Linux.