Samsung Galaxy TabPro S with Windows 10 is out in the US tomorrow for $899.99
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- 20 Mar 2016
AnonD-126854, 18 Mar 2016Of course one can get a decent laptop for this price. But ... moreBut the point of a tablet is not to use it on a desktop environment. Touch does not help desktop apps, it's a frustrating experience compared to mouse. So it's not a real tablet, just a weak laptop with atrocious control (touch instead of touchpad/mouse).
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- 18 Mar 2016
Anonymous, 18 Mar 2016But the point of a tablet is not to use it on a desktop env... moreYou have all you need to have PC job. Touchpad , keyboard , Windows 10, desend SoC(for 90% of the ppl)
And you can take off the screen as tablet , on tablet mode , and also use Pen.
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- 18 Mar 2016
Anonymous, 18 Mar 2016But the point of a tablet is not to use it on a desktop env... moreWhat do you mean? It does have a touchpad.
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- 18 Mar 2016
Anonymous, 18 Mar 2016A4 size is worse than A5 for reading, so that's another dis... moreThe Ipad pro is old?. So you are here arguing and have no idea what you are talking about LOL. How about the Ipad 4? There are different iPads for different people excluding the air.
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- 18 Mar 2016
mir, 18 Mar 2016One can get a decent laptop for the price of this weak device.such useful advice. I take it you can slip the desktop unit into a bag and carry it with you all the time as well? ...
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- 18 Mar 2016
Anonymous, 17 Mar 2016Some need it for office documents, skype, emails, web and s... moreWhilst android won't let you choose a download location it is pretty easy to open the download folder and copy or move the file to any location you want including cloud drives and externally plugged in storage like USB sticks very similar to what full blown windows can do.
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- 18 Mar 2016
AnonD-126854, 18 Mar 2016Of course one can get a decent laptop for this price. But ... moreBut the point of a tablet is not to use it on a desktop environment. Touch does not help desktop apps, it's a frustrating experience compared to mouse. So it's not a real tablet, just a weak laptop with atrocious control (touch instead of touchpad/mouse).
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- 18 Mar 2016
AnonD-367917, 18 Mar 2016Yes, it is 'niche' (as is all technology)
Your argument ... moreToo large for a tablet , too small for a laptop. That's my argument.
You can't really be productive in such a small screen and low specs, but it's worse than most tablets too (less battery, almost twice the weight, a lot of the apps are low quality as they're not touch optimized...).
My Tab S has an Amoled screen and it's 2 year old... Sure it's "only" 10.5 inches, but it's very natural for reading as it supports Google books making reading a much better experience than with most readers. Also it's far lighter per inch and has more battery per inch, that's all from a 2 year old product...
Oh but they do keep a pistol to my head when they decide to focus all their tablet production on low end laptops. We used to get light, mobile tablets with great touch apps support from Samsung. Now we get a low end laptop that pretends to be a tablet and a tab s2/s3 (a tablet that manages to be worse than its predecessor).
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- 18 Mar 2016
mir, 18 Mar 2016One can get a decent laptop for the price of this weak device.Of course one can get a decent laptop for this price.
But it will be not hybrid, not as mobile and sleek, not AMOLED display, not good for pen job...
BTW this new m3 is very good.
This is great hybrid, with good battery life, and just enough good for 90% of the ppl to serve them as PC with no need of extra tablet.(so you save much money there)
And as I can see, lighter, and better than Surface, imo
(keyboard included in the price)
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- 18 Mar 2016
mir, 18 Mar 2016What a waste of money to get a top speced laptop and deskto... moreSure and a thirty dollar wrist watch tells the time in the same way that a smart watch does.
Sometimes form and function matter.
This may not be for you, and I will respect your decision to that end.
Your needs are not the same as billions of other individuals. This MIGHT offer THEM something that suits their needs.
For example, my local post office has an exceptional print service for its customers.
Presently they use a 10" tablet, which would still shrink the output and not let customers see it easily as it is 'true "what you see is what you get", yes?
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- 18 Mar 2016
Anonymous, 18 Mar 2016A4 size is worse than A5 for reading, so that's another dis... moreYes, it is 'niche' (as is all technology)
Your argument is it is too large, then suggest that they are better off going larger?
Perhaps its trade offs will allow its features to shine for the niche that wish to use it; ie the BUYERS of this product. Nobody is holding a knife to anyone's throat saying 'you must buy me over all other options'. I doubt they will be making these in the sort of numbers as their 10" and 8" tablets.
A4 and magazines is just a natural marriage. I could never enjoy reading magazine PDFs on my top spec monitors, not due to any failing of the monitor... An A4 portraiture display is handy.
This might be Sammys design intent here, as they gave it quite limited battery life (vs the Apple 12", and all iPads that target 10 hours). As a second display and a portable display option this IS an exciting prospect.
No one says you have to hold it.
I got a 'free' tablet stand with some kitchen herbs at the supermarket.
If Steam could remote play to my Apple easily (it can, but not 'one button' easy) I would happily play 'Legend of Grimrock' on my touch enabled device... (I have arm strength.)
Otherwise a 12" AMOLED screen? Brilliant. I want one. Oh you've included a computer to power it; better still!
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- 18 Mar 2016
AnonD-367917, 18 Mar 2016The iPad Pro is heavier; although not by much (693gm vs 713... moreA4 size is worse than A5 for reading, so that's another disadvantage of this size. Sure picture heavy readings benefit (like comics), but the rest are not. Too heavy to read for a long time, low mobility and lower battery.
A 13.3 inch top spec laptop can be almost as big/small as those devices, with added benefit of better battery (often) , better keyboard, more power. What is it in touch that makes it better than a touch pad + keyboard for a desktop OS?
Touch is a good idea for simple functions (like reading, surfing the web), but very bad for most content production.
Yes it's a new form factor, so many rush to buy it. But once the dust will be settled it will be clearly shown that it is only viable for a a niche of people. It's too big to be easy to hold for long, but too small for serious work...
Maybe it will get a more viable size when the weight falls below the 500 gram line, and maybe trim the bezels so that it can be easier to store... more battery too, 10 hours screen time is the minimum for a high end laptop these days, surface Pros get almost half ...
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- 18 Mar 2016
AnonD-367917, 18 Mar 2016The iPad Pro is heavier; although not by much (693gm vs 713... moreWhat a waste of money to get a top speced laptop and desktop when a lowly tablet can actually fill your needs.
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- 18 Mar 2016
Anonymous, 18 Mar 2016You are the one talking nonsense. There is not one ipad tha... moreThe iPad Pro is heavier; although not by much (693gm vs 713gms/723gms).
This is a perfect equivalent to an IPad Pro; spec wise we have a lot of smiliarities (less resolution and a smaller battery life, with double sized storage option)
The battery life will be the feature that might hurt it though... Windows OS is not very power efficient, nor does it make use of a lot of custom functions for the chips onboard. This means that a lot of things done in hardware on the competitors platform will have to be handled in software on this platform. So it really is comparing Apples to Oranges.
I do think these units have a functional demand and will be enjoyed by many...
As to whether it makes sense to choose this over a dedicated larger machine, or to 'split the purchase' into a small tablet and a dedicated machine, that is for the user to decide.
I love my 12" tablet and use it daily; retiring the use of my 13" laptop (top tier spec), and desktop machine (top tier spec). My underpowered tablet does content consumption beautifully and, can get me out of trouble for content creation in a lot of instances too.
There is a market for devices like these.
I would love a large AMOLED display, and on the market this is it!!!
The A4 equivalent screen size is great for magazines and documents... And rotating these things, even as a secondary screen for a PC, is very easy. (portraiture mode being out of the realm of many PC monitors).
Sammy well done. I hope this product performs well and doesn't just reveal to the market reasons why iOS suits mobile devices....
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- 18 Mar 2016
AnonD-263286, 17 Mar 2016My next Windows-to-Android Cross Platform gadget. This is t... moreIs this confirmed?
This isn't Android, and I do wonder just how much functionality Samsung will include to these android devices. I doubt it will be at parity to an actual android OS.
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- 18 Mar 2016
Test the wireless display and bluetooth compatibility before U buy this
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- 18 Mar 2016
Anonymous, 18 Mar 2016Ipad not ipad air. Stop the non sense.Ipad is a 5 year old device. Also it's lighter too.
By your metric surface pro (the 1st) was more than 1kg...
Lastly the first ipads sucked partly because of how tiring they were after a while. Now surface pro is even heavier than that? Give me a break, byy a regular laptop
...this 2in1 fad only offers overpriced weaklings with integrated gpus, what a terrible trend. Back when tablets and laptops were separate you would actually buy great tablets (light and fast for the things they were doing) and great laptops (real gpus and real cpus).
Nowa days we mostly get core-m and atoms, give me an effing break.
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- 18 Mar 2016
The above are strange comments, given this is exactly the same price as the equivalent Surface Pro 4. You trade the extra $66 on the Samsung pen (not included) for a much thinner tablet.
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- 18 Mar 2016
reasonable price
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- 18 Mar 2016
Anonymous, 18 Mar 2016You are the one talking nonsense. There is not one ipad tha... moreIpad not ipad air. Stop the non sense.