Similar background (IT Telecom Sales) - amazing having my clients sign contracts right there and then.
Any Happy SP3 users?
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Similar background (IT Telecom Sales) - amazing having my clients sign contracts right there and then.
scfoster
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Now that I've figured out the weird USB mice interactions (both Microsoft branded mice) that caused the external monitor flicker, I'm a pretty happy camper.
Nirvana for me has always been the ability to have ONE device in a very small backpack, replacing a paper notebook, iPad/Samsung_Galaxy_note, and a laptop.
Is the SP3 perfect? Far from it.... but it's waaaaay better than anything else available today, IMO.
Nirvana for me has always been the ability to have ONE device in a very small backpack, replacing a paper notebook, iPad/Samsung_Galaxy_note, and a laptop.
Is the SP3 perfect? Far from it.... but it's waaaaay better than anything else available today, IMO.
Thanks! It's good to see everyone come out in force with positive comments for once. Not saying there aren't issues but I'm confident they will be resolved.
My first tablet was the Toshiba M200 which it the right most one in the pic. I loved that tablet PC 10 years ago. The whole concept of using a tablet PC for taking notes and drawing was new and exciting to me back then. I was on a mission to get my peers converted to the tablet PC back then. Funny how some things don't change.
ctitanic
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Totally agree. I keep saying it. It's the best TabletPC and UMPC that I have ever owned. The best since the TC1100.
ctitanic
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Thanks! It's good to see everyone come out in force with positive comments for once. Not saying there aren't issues but I'm confident they will be resolved.
My first tablet was the Toshiba M200 which it the right most one in the pic. I loved that tablet PC 10 years ago. The whole concept of using a tablet PC for taking notes and drawing was new and exciting to me back then. I was on a mission to get my peers converted to the tablet PC back then. Funny how some things don't change.
Using a TabletPC is something that once it enters your veins it's hard to get rid of it. You become and addict for the rest of your life! At least, that's my own experience.
kristalsoldier
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I fully agree with this. If we leave aside the question of gaming for the moment, a SP3-like device, paired with a dock and extended by a large local HDD (or multiples thereof), two external monitors, and hooked to a pair of speakers would serve very well. Slip it out of the dock and carry your desktop machine with you. Jot down notes...watch a movie...transact and save files on local and cloud-based drives...get online by tethering with a capable phone and/ or using a WIFI service (free or paid). So, effectively, leaving aside the gaming device of choice, a SP3-like device can fulfil a multi-function role - and quite well. Except in my case, I need a separate e-book reader-like device. I find that the iPad Air serves that role. It has excellent reading apps, can play the role of an independent terminal from which to access mails, surf the net, connect to files and documents from a cloud-based drive (OneDrive etc.) and do some online work (banking etc.). So, for me the ideal device combo would be the SP3 and the iPad Air. So, yes, I also think the SP3 - and specifically the SP3 - is a very interesting proposition, which led me to pursue it.
kristalsoldier
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Hmmm...interesting! I have also heard something to this effect. Can you speculate why "using a TabletPC is something that once it enters your veins it's hard to get rid of it"?
kristalsoldier
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I'm happy enough with the device that I will be upgrading the Wife and Kid's devices today, We went from 6 devices to 3
Nice! I am really liking the SP3 too!
I can answer this one, because unlike a laptop or desktop, with a TabletPC you are interacting with device very differently, using Touch, Pen, using it in Portrait mode laying it flat on the table like a pad of paper or when reading holding it like a book. And when there is a proper Active Digitizer and it just works you just instinctively want to annotate or write down thoughts and ideas.
The way that the Pen on the SP3 works with the top button is amazing, I find my self using all the time for screen scrapes while taking notes. So when you're on a legacy form factor or even a tablet without a proper pen you miss it and continually to interact with it the way you do a TabletPC.
I was willing to compromise much of this for the form factor of the Surface 2 but as you all know I was always hunting for the elusive pen that would replicate the TabletPC and I could never find it.
ctitanic
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ctitanic
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I'm happy enough with the device that I will be upgrading the Wife and Kid's devices today, We went from 6 devices to 3
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