If you want to type anything longer than a paragraph, you need to add a keyboard, which turns your tablet right back into (yes) a laptop.
Sorry, but no.
Biggest problem with this (and yes, I have tried it myself) that if you actually want to sit a tablet and keyboard on your lap to work it's too damn flimsy. At least with a proper laptop the screen they keyboard and screen doesn't want to tip in pieces off your lap.
You can get wireless versions - I found these are harder to use as per my comment above. You can get cases that kinda-sort-of connects the tablet and keyboard together but again, too damn flimsy to use.
And with most tablets lacking local storage (and being heavily cloud-dependent) and having really crippled apps compared to desktop versions if you want to do any real work you need a real laptop. Otherwise if you get spotty LTE service/wifi you're really screwed.
I have helped a couple people I know who run their own business who bought tablets thinking they'd be great for work use were very disappointed. They said great if you need to look something up on the fly while out and about but for real work they're not very good.
Hmm, in my city it'd be going off all the time. It seems construction crews around here can't install a manhole cover level with the road to save their life...
Samsung did the best job of anyone trying to differentiate their phones, and as such was the only profitable Android manufacturer for several years. But even they are losing market share rapidly to the likes of Xiaomi and Huawei and their profits have fallen off a cliff in the past couple years.
I've been using Samsung phones and just recently switched away as their flagship models imitate Apple too much - no user-replaceable battery and no microSD slot. I'm sure I'm not the only one...
I have the opposite problem - with systemd I can suspend and resume, but once I do that shutdown/restart hangs and it breaks my RAID array, which has to be rebuilt after hard-resetting the PC. Works just fine on OpenRC.
It does happen, although I'm not sure it happens with Ubuntu server. Canonical does allow you to turn it off, but I have no idea how hard it is to do so.
Sure, because even though swappable batteries are bigger, heavier, more expensive to make, compromise the strength of the laptop's chassis,
Uh, the iPhone 6 doesn't have a removable battery and it's bending in people's pockets... in Apple's obsessiveness for thinness, they've already compromised the strength of the phone/laptop chassis.
Person A: Here, install this new SD card for music on your phone. Person B: Sweet! Oh hey, there's an eject button. Click. *POP... SWOOSH... THUD... BANG!* Person B: I think I need a new battery now too.:-(
So what are you going to do then? Buy a replacement?
Yes, I did that a little over a year ago when my OEM battery on my S3 couldn't hold a charge for more than 8 hours (with very little use).
I bought a new Anker battery, and this battery surpassed the OEM battery.
What finally drove me to replace the phone was the weird resets while using it, and I noticed other things like bluetooth not wanting to connect. Oh, it also refused to wake up without yanking the battery. It was done. My Galaxy S1 had similar issues, I guess Samsung's phones just don't last longer than 2-3 years.
I still see people using the iPhone 4 (and some 3GS), and I see a lot of 5-6 year old LG Android based phones in use today.
Second this, my old Galaxy S3 died back in June, coincidentally about three days after the G4 was released.
I spent a day or so looking around at replacement phones, and most are a nonstarter. A portable device that runs on a battery should have the battery itself user-serviceable, period. Anything else is defective by design.
The G4 is the only flagship that still has a removable battery and a SD card slot (up to 2TB!) The quick charge on mine does work, it charges way faster than my old S3. I've also noticed that all the weird little problems with bluetooth, unusual battery drain, and random resets don't happen with this phone. With light usage my phone can last three days, normal use gets me about two days, and heavy use I can still usually get a day out of it.
The only complaint/issue I have is with the touchscreen keyboard, sometimes it doesn't register a key tap. I have learned to type on it now so I don't see that nearly as often now.
I almost wonder whether Google are encouraging people to publicize Android vulnerabilities so they can say 'look, this isn't working, we need to be able to push updates to phones ourselves'. They have to do that if Android has any future.
Well, there's only one issue with that. All it will take is Google to push out a patch that breaks the custom UI on the phone making it unusable. Carriers/manufacturers don't allow you to disable skins/UI "improvements" so this could potentially be a problem.
Though, to be fair, print servers really should be running Linux in the first place. They're more reliable.
Well, Windows Print Server/Print Management has been very reliable in my own experience (in a domain environment.) The only time I've ever had an issue with it is when I mistakenly tried to install an HP printer CD instead of just downloading the basic driver from HP's site. Never again...
Also, Windows+X pops up a menu with some handy shortcuts, including an administrative shell. This only works on Win8 and higher, from what I remember...
I had a SSD fail recently (two weeks ago?) and while searching for a replacement found the Samsung TRIM issues, so I didn't buy one. I got some cheap replacement for the time being.
When this new one inevitably fails prematurely, I will look again at Samsung models.
Especially if you are looking to wirelessly transmit 1080i/p reliably. I've tried and wireless was so unreliable (display artifacts and whatnot not present with wired) that I wound up going to the crawlspace and running wires to every device in the house.
I wound up only using wireless for phones and tablets, every other device that has a physical LAN port is plugged in. I haven't had any network related issues since I ditched wireless.
Back in the late 90s I tried a wireless video transmitter (back then it was composite video) and every time my neighbour turned on the microwave the signal cut out. Presumably for low res video you could probably get away with wireless.
then back to ubuntu again (What asshole greenlit those scroll bars and 1px target to resize a window?!)
Well, at least you can see the scroll bars. I was using OS X and I couldn't figure out how to scroll the window because some "genius" decided to hide them when the window stops scrolling. How useful is that? I did figure out how to turn that off, but that shouldn't even be a setting.
They placed the turn signal on the left side of the column, placed the gearshift on the right side of the column, and placed the brights control on the floor, operated by the left foot.
Column shifters can operate differently too:
1. Common old automatics had PRND[3]21. I was in a newer vehicle that had PRNDM. In order to access manual gears, you have to move the selector to 'M' and use buttons on the shifter stalk to access all lower gears. So when you are towing and need to drop down a gear to control your descent, you need to muck about with the shifter+buttons+dash display to make sure you've picked the right gear. Compare to before when you move the shifter stalk down one (or two.) Intuitive, eh?
2. I certainly haven't forgotten the manual shifter on the column, or 3-on-the-tree. Put new drivers in it and they'll never figure out how to move it as they'll think it's automatic. They'll probably grind gears a lot though.:-)
By the time it gets to Microsoft and Apple OS GUIs, it's not "hipster". It's mainstream.
Um, Windows 8? It's so bad they're giving away Windows 10? Mainstream my arse. People go out of their way to avoid Windows 8.
I have heard chatter among non-tech-savvy coworkers saying they've given up on their new laptops with Windows 8 because they couldn't figure out how to get pictures off of their camera. They are using their 6 or so year old laptop and the new one collects dust.
I can one-up that - I drive manual transmissions - have for more than 20 years. Both vehicles of mine are manual transmission (car and truck.)
I was driving the work van (automatic) the other day with a coworker, and while slowing down I lifted my left leg and reached to the center of the van - where I found no manual shifter. My coworker was wondering what I was doing.
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I was thinking that this explains a lot of the daft UI design we've seen recently.
Sorry, but no.
Biggest problem with this (and yes, I have tried it myself) that if you actually want to sit a tablet and keyboard on your lap to work it's too damn flimsy. At least with a proper laptop the screen they keyboard and screen doesn't want to tip in pieces off your lap.
You can get wireless versions - I found these are harder to use as per my comment above. You can get cases that kinda-sort-of connects the tablet and keyboard together but again, too damn flimsy to use.
And with most tablets lacking local storage (and being heavily cloud-dependent) and having really crippled apps compared to desktop versions if you want to do any real work you need a real laptop. Otherwise if you get spotty LTE service/wifi you're really screwed.
I have helped a couple people I know who run their own business who bought tablets thinking they'd be great for work use were very disappointed. They said great if you need to look something up on the fly while out and about but for real work they're not very good.
Hmm, in my city it'd be going off all the time. It seems construction crews around here can't install a manhole cover level with the road to save their life...
Yep, it's preparing the kids for a crap-tacular job dealing with crap-tastic management!
I've been using Samsung phones and just recently switched away as their flagship models imitate Apple too much - no user-replaceable battery and no microSD slot. I'm sure I'm not the only one...
So you mean the student has to sit in a corner with a tinfoil hat on? I don't think the parents will like that...
I have the opposite problem - with systemd I can suspend and resume, but once I do that shutdown/restart hangs and it breaks my RAID array, which has to be rebuilt after hard-resetting the PC. Works just fine on OpenRC.
It does happen, although I'm not sure it happens with Ubuntu server. Canonical does allow you to turn it off, but I have no idea how hard it is to do so.
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Yes, but do that a few times and you'll only get 50 miles to the charge. Be a lot of fun though... :-)
Uh, the iPhone 6 doesn't have a removable battery and it's bending in people's pockets... in Apple's obsessiveness for thinness, they've already compromised the strength of the phone/laptop chassis.
Person A: Here, install this new SD card for music on your phone. :-(
Person B: Sweet! Oh hey, there's an eject button. Click. *POP... SWOOSH... THUD... BANG!*
Person B: I think I need a new battery now too.
Yes, there is a root image available, but I haven't tried it. From what I can tell it overwrites the system partitions so the download is huge.
Yes, I did that a little over a year ago when my OEM battery on my S3 couldn't hold a charge for more than 8 hours (with very little use).
I bought a new Anker battery, and this battery surpassed the OEM battery.
What finally drove me to replace the phone was the weird resets while using it, and I noticed other things like bluetooth not wanting to connect. Oh, it also refused to wake up without yanking the battery. It was done. My Galaxy S1 had similar issues, I guess Samsung's phones just don't last longer than 2-3 years.
I still see people using the iPhone 4 (and some 3GS), and I see a lot of 5-6 year old LG Android based phones in use today.
Second this, my old Galaxy S3 died back in June, coincidentally about three days after the G4 was released.
I spent a day or so looking around at replacement phones, and most are a nonstarter. A portable device that runs on a battery should have the battery itself user-serviceable, period. Anything else is defective by design.
The G4 is the only flagship that still has a removable battery and a SD card slot (up to 2TB!) The quick charge on mine does work, it charges way faster than my old S3. I've also noticed that all the weird little problems with bluetooth, unusual battery drain, and random resets don't happen with this phone. With light usage my phone can last three days, normal use gets me about two days, and heavy use I can still usually get a day out of it.
The only complaint/issue I have is with the touchscreen keyboard, sometimes it doesn't register a key tap. I have learned to type on it now so I don't see that nearly as often now.
Well, there's only one issue with that. All it will take is Google to push out a patch that breaks the custom UI on the phone making it unusable. Carriers/manufacturers don't allow you to disable skins/UI "improvements" so this could potentially be a problem.
Well, Windows Print Server/Print Management has been very reliable in my own experience (in a domain environment.) The only time I've ever had an issue with it is when I mistakenly tried to install an HP printer CD instead of just downloading the basic driver from HP's site. Never again...
Also, Windows+X pops up a menu with some handy shortcuts, including an administrative shell. This only works on Win8 and higher, from what I remember...
Considering we had a Samsung firmware bug in TRIM that turned out to not to be an issue with Samsung drives, but with the TRIM code itself.
I'd love to! Oh wait, my ISP still doesn't support IPv6...
I had a SSD fail recently (two weeks ago?) and while searching for a replacement found the Samsung TRIM issues, so I didn't buy one. I got some cheap replacement for the time being.
When this new one inevitably fails prematurely, I will look again at Samsung models.
Especially if you are looking to wirelessly transmit 1080i/p reliably. I've tried and wireless was so unreliable (display artifacts and whatnot not present with wired) that I wound up going to the crawlspace and running wires to every device in the house.
I wound up only using wireless for phones and tablets, every other device that has a physical LAN port is plugged in. I haven't had any network related issues since I ditched wireless.
Back in the late 90s I tried a wireless video transmitter (back then it was composite video) and every time my neighbour turned on the microwave the signal cut out. Presumably for low res video you could probably get away with wireless.
Well, at least you can see the scroll bars. I was using OS X and I couldn't figure out how to scroll the window because some "genius" decided to hide them when the window stops scrolling. How useful is that? I did figure out how to turn that off, but that shouldn't even be a setting.
Column shifters can operate differently too:
1. Common old automatics had PRND[3]21. I was in a newer vehicle that had PRNDM. In order to access manual gears, you have to move the selector to 'M' and use buttons on the shifter stalk to access all lower gears. So when you are towing and need to drop down a gear to control your descent, you need to muck about with the shifter+buttons+dash display to make sure you've picked the right gear. Compare to before when you move the shifter stalk down one (or two.) Intuitive, eh?
2. I certainly haven't forgotten the manual shifter on the column, or 3-on-the-tree. Put new drivers in it and they'll never figure out how to move it as they'll think it's automatic. They'll probably grind gears a lot though. :-)
Stuff evolves.
Um, Windows 8? It's so bad they're giving away Windows 10? Mainstream my arse. People go out of their way to avoid Windows 8.
I have heard chatter among non-tech-savvy coworkers saying they've given up on their new laptops with Windows 8 because they couldn't figure out how to get pictures off of their camera. They are using their 6 or so year old laptop and the new one collects dust.
I can one-up that - I drive manual transmissions - have for more than 20 years. Both vehicles of mine are manual transmission (car and truck.)
I was driving the work van (automatic) the other day with a coworker, and while slowing down I lifted my left leg and reached to the center of the van - where I found no manual shifter. My coworker was wondering what I was doing.
Talk about muscle memory...