「 Maybe yes, maybe not. 」
While my laptop was sent to the repair shop, for cleaning and some oiling on its fan, I used my tablet to do my daily job.
Well, that is to say, it was the most unnerving experience ever.
When the evening came, I dreaded and wanted to cancel the class but hey, these students have paid me. So, I need to be responsible. I tried teaching like I used to with zoom through the tablet but it’s just very different and awkward.
It was challenging to multitask, especially when I taught using slides. I like to annotate my slides, and show detailed slides to my students. I already told my students I have hardware issues and I was sorry because the teaching was not as seamless as usual.
While using a tablet was easy to write, draft content and connect my camera memory to be uploaded online, everything else feels cumbersome and such a chore.
In the end, all I ended up getting was this Rexus mouse, Q35 that I don’t think is as great as my logitech. I know that the price itself is significantly different but having to switch to this brand for my mouse was such a downgrade but now whenever I am outside, I can just bring the mouse with me and I can write.
So, if you’re someone whose job requires nothing to do on a laptop ( minimum office task, editing and no multitask), a tablet is great but if your job is multitasking and having to actually share it with others and stream at the same time, you either need a good laptop or a pc.
At the same time, I tried using Hive the way I normally would, it was also cumbersome. One of the biggest challenges was logging into Peakd. While there are numerous options, the hive keychain way wasn’t so seamless and over tablet, they don’t have the optimized landscape viewing. So, that’s one of the ways it differs from the laptop experience.
Maybe it's already time for me to upgrade my laptop and it's already showing signs that before the year ends, an upgrade is a must. So, going to work hard for it once again 💪
 | 𝘊𝘦𝘮𝘺 (𝘰𝘳 𝘔𝘢𝘤) 𝘪𝘴 𝘢 𝖼𝗋𝖾𝖺𝗍𝗂𝗏𝖾 𝗀𝖾𝗇𝖾𝗋𝖺𝗅𝗂𝗌𝗍 & 𝘤𝘰𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘯𝘰𝘪𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘶𝘳, 𝘢𝘯 𝘢𝘮𝘣𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘵 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘴 𝘣𝘢𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘴𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘶𝘥𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘰𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘴𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘬. 𝘏𝘦𝘳 𝘣𝘭𝘰𝘨 𝘳𝘦𝘧𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘴 𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘭𝘶𝘴𝘵, 𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘰𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘺, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘱𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘨𝘳𝘰𝘸𝘵𝘩. 𝘠𝘰𝘶’𝘭𝘭 𝘰𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘯 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘥 𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘣𝘰𝘰𝘬𝘴, 𝘵𝘦𝘤𝘩𝘯𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘺, 𝘱𝘰𝘱 𝘤𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦, 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘷𝘦𝘭, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘱𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘰𝘱𝘩𝘺; 𝘦𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘴𝘩𝘦’𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘤𝘶𝘱𝘴 𝘥𝘦𝘦𝘱 𝘪𝘯 𝘤𝘰𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘦. 𝘚𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘴 𝘴𝘸𝘪𝘮𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘨, 𝘤𝘰𝘰𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘭𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘯𝘦𝘸 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘴. 𝘍𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘰𝘸 𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘰𝘯 𝘏𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘣 𝘢 𝘤𝘶𝘱 𝘰𝘧 𝘤𝘰𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘢𝘴. |
I don't think a tablet, no matter how big it is and how much RAM it has, will ever take the place of a laptop or desktop for people like you and me. Even if you plugged in a keyboard to it, it still wouldn't be able to do many of the things a laptop or a desktop handles easily, especially those graphically-intensive tasks that require a heftier GPU than the ones built into the tablet's processor.
Where I think tablets are most suited for are social media use, gaming, media playback, and maybe some light productivity if equipped with a keyboard. And I'm thinking of getting a tablet to offload most of my social media activities and Web3 gaming to. A likely purchase candidate is the Tecno Megapad LTE. This tablet is 12-inches and comes with a free keyboard.
A few years back this brand, Tecno, was something I wouldn't touch with a ten-foot pole. But an emergency need for a new phone back in 2023 forced me to buy a Tecno Spark 10C, the only phone I could afford to buy at the time. And this phone has been working wonderfully since I got it, and hasn't given me any problems yet.
But it's stuck at Android 12 and is now considered obsolete. Anyway, the brand has grown and improved considerably since I first found out about it around 2016 or 2017. Its latest offerings are on my purchase radar as my phone is begging to be replaced with a more recent Android version.
I think it depends on your needs. In my case, I need a good computer for designing, making videos, and editing.
But, for example, I’d use a tablet for drawing, playing games, and things like that.
I guess the choice depends on whether portability and convenience outweigh raw performance and versatility. Tablets can replace laptops for light tasks like browsing, streaming, note-taking, and even some creative work, but laptops remain superior for heavy multitasking, professional software, and long typing sessions.