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Edited: Dec 22, 2024

Merry X-mas

Despite the low activity here, and yes, I’m partly to blame, I’d like to wish you all a very Merry Christmas. Or do I need to be PC and wish you Happy Holidays?

Whatever it is, I hope we will be a bit more busy here after the holidays.

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Bishop

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

Been consumed IRL for months it seems. Hope to be back more often in '25. I've missed the crew here.

bierot

Dec 28, 2024

I would also like to send my best wishes to the survivors of TabletPCReview for the new year that we are about to begin. It would be nice to enter a new era after the turbulent year that this fantastic forum has had.

violajack

Dec 26, 2024

Happy Day after Chirstmas all!

The holiday season was crazy here with non-stop concerts. We got a Quest 3 for the family and it's been in use or charging non-stop since I set it up yesterday morning. The research led to a renewed interest in seeing what my xreals can do and it turns out, they can do a whole more now. Thanks to the Steamdeck, development in desktop linux has taken off and while the Nebula app for Windows is terrible, someone built a gnome desktop plugin that renders a widescreen virtual monitor with decent head tracking. I'm finding new things that Bazzite can do all the time, to the point where I cancelled xbox pass again and put the Bazzite drive back in the Ally. My desktop runs Bazzite, my ally runs Bazzite, and my thinkpad runs Ubuntu. I keep Windows for the last bit of OneNote management I still need to do, but it's all linux and android here otherwise.

Tams

Dec 25, 2024

Merry Christmas all! 🎄

Steve S

Dec 25, 2024

Merry Christmas and best wishes for 2024!

james!

Dec 24, 2024

Merry Christmas!

dstrauss

Dec 24, 2024

Merry Christmas Kuma and all our little ones tribe. Been pre-occupied with new gr@ndson (born 12/18) and Christmas preparations for our daughter’s family. Here’s hoping the new year is great for all.

Tams

Dec 25, 2024

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Congrats!

Nnthemperor

Dec 29, 2024

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Congrats on the grandson, Dale.

dstrauss

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Thanks to all the tribe!

Eltos

Dec 23, 2024

Merry Christmas, and all that! I will definitely be here more as well. I think I am finally giving up on Mac once and for all because I have to have a gaming laptop no matter what anyway. So if I have that and a Surface Pro, I can cut out the Mac and iPad Pro. Anyway! Happy Holidays and all that!

willadams

Dec 23, 2024

Happy Christmas! Merry New Year!

The big question is:

What is the end-game for tablet PC technologies?

Do they go mainstream and get absorbed?

Or does it vanish for lack of interest/compatible hardware? (My daughter finally replaced her old cell phone w/ a Samsung Galaxy S24, but would not consider an Ultra due to the size)

It seems that Windows tablets are all-but vanished (Microsoft Surface Pro and LIncStudio are the only two I can think of --- maybe the Lenovo Yogabook 9i counts?) and convertibles are the most common option.

Will Android ever get better software support? Merge w/ Chrome? Make enough of Linux accessible that folks will consider it thus?

Will Apple ever offer an iPhone w/ support for a Pencil?

Consider that the second-generation Kindle Scribe isn't (just new bezel colour, textured screen, and new pen w/ textured eraser) --- is hardware reaching a plateau? It is kind of nice in some ways --- very cool that the Samsung Galaxy Book 3 has been succeeded by the 4 and 5 and the physical form-factor hasn't changed (says the guy who bought a second Book 3 when panicked at the thought of not being able to replace it --- maybe I'll get a 6 if Windows 11 doesn't anger me and if some other option isn't viable).

Of course, what I really want is a dual-screen Samsung Galaxy running Windows (which can be booted into Linux?) w/ S-Pen support which would be about the same size as my beloved Galaxy Book 12.

Unfortunately, it seems likely that a dual-fold 3-panel Samsung cell phone which unfolds to a tablet size will probably use Wacom AES....

Anyone got a positive review of the Wacom Movink? Prospects of it becoming a product line in-and-of-itself? I'd probably buy one if it had a Pro/HD option. Paired w/ a Mac Mini it would almost be the Mac tablet I've always wanted.

Eltos

Dec 27, 2024

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I would love that device!

Eltos

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Yeah I more-or-less encountered the same thing in my attempt. It's one thing to just use a Windows laptop as a gaming machine and ignore what it does the rest of the time. It's quite another to entrust it to do everything. My M4 Mac Mini is on its way haha. I'll use my iPad Pro 12.9" for everything on the go, and my Mac Mini while at my desk. Dang it, why can't MS get its collective head out of its you-know-what.

dstrauss

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The war with M$ for the control of MY computer is wearing thin, and device drivers are still a no show for multiple things, but most importantly no standalone scanner support. I love the SP11 form factor, performance, and battery life, but lack of driver support, especially for my scanner, is crimping my practice substantially.

Add to that Zac Bowden's December update that the 11" Surface device is going to be a laptop, not a Surface Go size device, is discouraging as well.

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JoeS

Dec 22, 2024

Same to you Kuma, and everyone else here!

I'm not as active as I used to be, but to make up for it I'm drowning in computers. My full collection now includes an antique X220t, an SLS1, an SLS2, a Galaxy Book2 ARM OLED ARM tablet, a ole' Surface Pro X ARM tablet, and my dad's getting a Surface Laptop with Snapdragon X Plus for Christmas, let's see how that goes. I checked, it does run Solitaire, so I think we're good. :D

Dellaster

Dec 22, 2024

Please accept my wishes for a merry Christmas as well. 🎄