Tablet advice... smallish and portable, and able to do a bit of work in a pinch
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I can't believe no one said this - take the red pill!
Groan... and yes, I didn't think of that either!
I am one of "those foreigners coming over here and stealing our jobs". Yay me!
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Cynic is my middle name. :sigh:
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello Any organization is like a tree full of monkeys. The monkeys on top look down and see a tree full of smiling faces. The monkeys on the bottom look up and see nothing but assholes.
Jörgen Andersson wrote:
Cynic is my middle name
Hmm, that must be a Skåne thing?
I am one of "those foreigners coming over here and stealing our jobs". Yay me!
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As those who follow my ramblings are aware, I have a quite portable windows laptop, but it's a bit large as a device for flying with. (No, I don't mean I don't need a plane. C'mon people!) So, I'm looking at 8 or 9 inch tablet. As I want it to be legit tax deductible for my side job company, I'd want to have the ability to edit Word documents on it, with highlighting, and edit history maintained. (I do proofreading for furriners writing academic papers in English, and they'd be peeved if I messed up their doc's table formatting and annotations). Anyone with experience running Office Mobile on android? Can you work without an internet connection for a while? (ie, on a plane!)? Does the one drive stuff give you local copies on your laptop? And any recommendations for a nice but not daft expensive tablet? I'm tempted by the LG 8.3 one, and also tempted to wait a few weeks for the Nexus 9. Iain.
I am one of "those foreigners coming over here and stealing our jobs". Yay me!
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I will definitely explore Kingsoft. I would be a bit nervous about ordering in $'s from a company that imports from China. I imagine their quality is as good as anyone else's but if there is a problem, I'd be a bit stuffed? ps, Living in Sweden, as you might not have know that!
I am one of "those foreigners coming over here and stealing our jobs". Yay me!
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Jörgen Andersson wrote:
Cynic is my middle name
Hmm, that must be a Skåne thing?
I am one of "those foreigners coming over here and stealing our jobs". Yay me!
Isn't that more like daft?
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello Any organization is like a tree full of monkeys. The monkeys on top look down and see a tree full of smiling faces. The monkeys on the bottom look up and see nothing but assholes.
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As those who follow my ramblings are aware, I have a quite portable windows laptop, but it's a bit large as a device for flying with. (No, I don't mean I don't need a plane. C'mon people!) So, I'm looking at 8 or 9 inch tablet. As I want it to be legit tax deductible for my side job company, I'd want to have the ability to edit Word documents on it, with highlighting, and edit history maintained. (I do proofreading for furriners writing academic papers in English, and they'd be peeved if I messed up their doc's table formatting and annotations). Anyone with experience running Office Mobile on android? Can you work without an internet connection for a while? (ie, on a plane!)? Does the one drive stuff give you local copies on your laptop? And any recommendations for a nice but not daft expensive tablet? I'm tempted by the LG 8.3 one, and also tempted to wait a few weeks for the Nexus 9. Iain.
I am one of "those foreigners coming over here and stealing our jobs". Yay me!
I have a couple year old asus transformer that I use for taking notes with evernote. It still get 6-8 hours of battery life with the detachable keyboard. I haven't used it for word docs, but the hardware is great. I haven't looked at the current version of it though.
Curvature of the Mind now with 3D
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As those who follow my ramblings are aware, I have a quite portable windows laptop, but it's a bit large as a device for flying with. (No, I don't mean I don't need a plane. C'mon people!) So, I'm looking at 8 or 9 inch tablet. As I want it to be legit tax deductible for my side job company, I'd want to have the ability to edit Word documents on it, with highlighting, and edit history maintained. (I do proofreading for furriners writing academic papers in English, and they'd be peeved if I messed up their doc's table formatting and annotations). Anyone with experience running Office Mobile on android? Can you work without an internet connection for a while? (ie, on a plane!)? Does the one drive stuff give you local copies on your laptop? And any recommendations for a nice but not daft expensive tablet? I'm tempted by the LG 8.3 one, and also tempted to wait a few weeks for the Nexus 9. Iain.
I am one of "those foreigners coming over here and stealing our jobs". Yay me!
I'd get a Surface 3. Using a Surface Pro 3 full time for two months[^]
I'd rather be phishing!
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I'd get a Surface 3. Using a Surface Pro 3 full time for two months[^]
I'd rather be phishing!
That's getting a bit big, and near the Yoga 2 Pro[^] I already have... Iain.
I am one of "those foreigners coming over here and stealing our jobs". Yay me!
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As those who follow my ramblings are aware, I have a quite portable windows laptop, but it's a bit large as a device for flying with. (No, I don't mean I don't need a plane. C'mon people!) So, I'm looking at 8 or 9 inch tablet. As I want it to be legit tax deductible for my side job company, I'd want to have the ability to edit Word documents on it, with highlighting, and edit history maintained. (I do proofreading for furriners writing academic papers in English, and they'd be peeved if I messed up their doc's table formatting and annotations). Anyone with experience running Office Mobile on android? Can you work without an internet connection for a while? (ie, on a plane!)? Does the one drive stuff give you local copies on your laptop? And any recommendations for a nice but not daft expensive tablet? I'm tempted by the LG 8.3 one, and also tempted to wait a few weeks for the Nexus 9. Iain.
I am one of "those foreigners coming over here and stealing our jobs". Yay me!
Iain Clarke, Warrior Programmer wrote:
tempted to wait a few weeks for the Nexus 9
I recommend waiting for the Google Nexus 9. /ravi
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I will definitely explore Kingsoft. I would be a bit nervous about ordering in $'s from a company that imports from China. I imagine their quality is as good as anyone else's but if there is a problem, I'd be a bit stuffed? ps, Living in Sweden, as you might not have know that!
I am one of "those foreigners coming over here and stealing our jobs". Yay me!
Cube has a very good service reputation (although comms can sometimes be confusing, because of language glitches), and also an avid follower base, if you want information or to to mod the machine. I have one of their previous tabs (a quad core/quad core), which is still working far too well for me to justify buying the new one (which is octa-core/octa-core!) :(( I'd much rather buy an android machine from them than a lower-specced itunes front-end from apple -- in fact, you could almost buy three of these for the price of an itunes front-end with the same amount of memory, so if you drop one while bungee-jumping, who cares? It's worth noting that I haven't seen a single bad review of the machine since it was released. That says a lot.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!