As others have said, and with your known aversion to Apple products, the
Surface Pro is exactly what you are looking for.
If you go the iPad route... you will need/want the Pro version. Apple
makes a keyboard that is a cover that I actually really like. I'd
spring for the pencil as well - for things like SolidWorks you will
probably really enjoy it.
On the 11" vs 12.9" I go with the smaller one personally... but to each
their own. Go to the Apple Store in SLC and give them a try.
BTW, there is an Apple event tomorrow which may announce new hardware
but it is unlikely on the iPad line. They will probably be talking
about and giving the launch date for iPadOS which lots of people have
been waiting for (including me).
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Chuck McCown wrote on 9/8/19 12:32:
She has several iPads so if I want tech support from her I better
stick with her brand of smokes.
*From:* Ken Hohhof
*Sent:* Sunday, September 08, 2019 12:05 PM
*To:* 'AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group'
*Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] OT iPad question
You just described a laptop.
Also, does it have to literally be an iPad, i.e. an Apple product? Or
just a tablet? My son has some sort of Android tablet. You could get
something like a Samsung Galaxy Tab S6.
Or if size is the only issue, get a compact laptop. Dell XPS 13 is
nice. By the time you add a cover and a physical keyboard and mouse
to a tablet, it walks and quacks like a laptop. You wouldn’t want to
leave it on the train though.
*From:* AF <[email protected]> *On Behalf Of *Chuck McCown
*Sent:* Sunday, September 8, 2019 12:44 PM
*To:* [email protected]
*Subject:* [AFMUG] OT iPad question
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?
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