I’m currently traveling a lot between airports in three different countries:
- in one, I can leave everything in the backpack
- in another, only need to take out the laptops
- and in another it’s everything electric: laptops, chargers, cellphones, kindle…
Thanks for updating this thread. I am in the market for a very light laptop-tablet-ish sort of thing, and this looks like it might be exactly what I want!
Congrats! Love mine. Couple notes:
Drawboard is the best app in the store. Period. I use it all the time. You’re right it’s pretty glitchy but it was cheap as hell so I’m not complaining too much. The Adobe Reader app is garbage as I’m sure you’ve found.
Get OneCalendar from the app store. Much better than the built in calendar app and it’s free.
Other than that yeah, the app store sucks and is mostly unsupported which is unfortunate.
The size is perfect and carrying it around work is less obtrusive than carrying a standard sized notebook.
Fast boot works perfectly. Just like an iPad. Even from full cold start it comes up almost immediately.
Don’t forget about the microSD port! I added 64GB of storage to this thing for almost nothing.
Complaints:
App store already mentioned.
The screen is super high resolution and normal windows desktop applications can be REALLY tough to read. Even when you turn off the dpi upscaling things can look crappy.
I never use the pen. Thought I would but I just don’t.
Battery life is great IME but I don’t use it unplugged for much other than meetings or on the couch.
One USB port does kind of suck but I don’t personally use any USB devices with this thing except a mouse sometimes.
I don’t really understand the display port or how to hook it up to anything as it uses a nontypical port.
Yup I’ve got OneCalendar. It works well enough but in my case it’s not as useful as it could be. Essentially it doesn’t handle lots of different calendars very elegantly - I’ve got ~14 associated with my main gmail account, but I really only need to need to pay attention to four or five on a daily basis. In-app, you can choose which calendars to display with the “Filter” option, but for some odd reason it only identifies each calendar by color, not by name, and can’t display more than 15. It doesn’t consistently save the filter options, and it sometimes ignores them on the Live Tile. Without proper filtering, the live tile is always filled with things I don’t care about.
It’s just one more example of “nearly brilliant except for a critical flaw”.
It’s a “mini displayport”, which is physically the same as the “thunderbolt” connector. They’ve been the norm in Macbooks for the last few years, and are becoming more popular in PC laptops.
With the right adapter, you can connect to a display by VGA, DVI, HDMI, or full-size display port, which should cover any vaguely modern display.
So Ms. Cups got one from her work as her work computer and she wanted me to ask you guys about the battery.
Her battery drains fast. Like, too fast. She said it was down to 40% within an hour. Now she does have a keyboard and a second moniter attached, but should it drain THAT fast? She’s literally had the thing less than a week, and I thought that battery issues were something that’s going on, but I wanted to bring it up to you all.
Battery issues anyone?
It all depends on her settings and what she’s doing on it during that time. But even with a CPU-intensive task, 60% battery drainage in an hour does sound excessive. She should run an energy report (“powercfg -energy” via command line) to check her battery status and settings. If those are ok, she can start hunting down the real culprit.