I have a Microsoft surface that I bought to resolve the very problem you have (the too big and heavy one, not the having to downsize to make my wife happy one).
I have a smallish "personal item" sized bag (my wife calls it my "murse") that I keep all of the things I might need during a flight, such as phone charger, usb cables, pencils, etc. This fits nicely in there and doesn't take up too much space. Overall, it's a similar size to a tablet, and can be used that way as well. It also runs normal windows stuff, so you can probably run solidworks. You may actually find that the stylus pen you can get for the surface makes certain solidworks operations easier, but that most likely depends on what operations you are performing. On the other hand my wife just replaced her tablet with a new large Samsung tablet which comes with a nice keyboard as well. Id have to look up the model but for everything she does (email, support tickets, etc) it works fine. But it isn't as nice to do actual work on as the surface. One last note about the surface. The tablet version uses an optional magnetic snap on keyboard which can be removed. They have also released a new version with a permantely attached keyboard. Im intrigued by this but not completely convinced. On Sun, Sep 8, 2019, 11:45 AM Chuck McCown <[email protected]> wrote: > My wife is busy (for months) planning some travel for this fall. She told > me I am not taking my laptop. Too big, too heavy etc etc. (I actually > left it on a train at Heathrow once, had enough time to go catch that same > train and found it.)But I digress. > > She says I can have an iPad. I acquiesce due to the fact that she micro > manages these trips and I don’t have to do a thing. She likes it that way > and I like it that way. I just go where I am told to go and I pay. She > makes sure I have clean clothes and the proper tickets needed for travel as > well as hotel rooms. It is actually pretty wonderful. She teams up with > my UK son-in-law as he is like this too. > > But again, I digress. > > I know almost zero about iPads. I need a human size keyboard. Hopefully > one with keys that physically move. I would like to be able to plug in an > HDMI monitor too. Mouse? > > Dear Borg, what are my options? > -- > AF mailing list > [email protected] > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >
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