I was very cautious before deciding to go for the SP3. I had the 1st RT - returned it after a week because fo the lack running a simple Cisco VPN session. Went to the 1st Gen SP later but sold it because the battery life was not suiting my needs.
I was working with a Sony Vaio Duo 11 for a while but weight & battery life was a issue here. So now I have the SP3 since a couple of weeks.
Sure it has some flaws, mainly caused by s/w and background processes, but being in the marketing & product management - man, this device pushed my creativity and productivity to a whole new level. Doing product demos with customers ... I have the supporting presentation always handy - being in a plane from east to west I can do stuff from start to landing and the pen with OneNote integration is awesome. Doing a presentation and need to note a thing ... one click and onenote opens... doodle it down and continue my presentation. Doing market research ... just share pages and articles with onenote for later, capture screenshots It is just awesome. I actually do not know where to start when talking about things that I like about the device. The Typecover is awesome, have it fully integrated in my work environment, can run everything I can on my PC, but I can also use it on the couch browsing web sites and forums. It is so flexible and convenient. And yes, it replaced my laptop, my ipad (well had a Samsung Note 10.1 before) and my paper notebook.
And yes, I run Photoshop on my tablet ... and Publisher ... and a video editor ... and connect to my companies sharepoint crunching massive amounts of data via Access and Excel. I write my press releases using the real Word. I look though project plans using MS Project. I create my own touch friendly apps using Project Sienna - AMAZING in this form factor.
The only thing that sucks is the Marvell WLAN ... sometimes not waking up - sometimes limited connection only - not reliable at all. Hope MS fixes it.
I was working with a Sony Vaio Duo 11 for a while but weight & battery life was a issue here. So now I have the SP3 since a couple of weeks.
Sure it has some flaws, mainly caused by s/w and background processes, but being in the marketing & product management - man, this device pushed my creativity and productivity to a whole new level. Doing product demos with customers ... I have the supporting presentation always handy - being in a plane from east to west I can do stuff from start to landing and the pen with OneNote integration is awesome. Doing a presentation and need to note a thing ... one click and onenote opens... doodle it down and continue my presentation. Doing market research ... just share pages and articles with onenote for later, capture screenshots It is just awesome. I actually do not know where to start when talking about things that I like about the device. The Typecover is awesome, have it fully integrated in my work environment, can run everything I can on my PC, but I can also use it on the couch browsing web sites and forums. It is so flexible and convenient. And yes, it replaced my laptop, my ipad (well had a Samsung Note 10.1 before) and my paper notebook.
And yes, I run Photoshop on my tablet ... and Publisher ... and a video editor ... and connect to my companies sharepoint crunching massive amounts of data via Access and Excel. I write my press releases using the real Word. I look though project plans using MS Project. I create my own touch friendly apps using Project Sienna - AMAZING in this form factor.
The only thing that sucks is the Marvell WLAN ... sometimes not waking up - sometimes limited connection only - not reliable at all. Hope MS fixes it.
