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Used for: 1–3 months
Paper without the mess
Drawing on it feels like paper, with none of the mess and an undo button!
Used for: 3–6 months
The train test is the one that matters in this house. Kings Cross to Edinburgh, a film for the first half, work for the second, headphones in, and it landed with over half the battery showing. Held one-handed it is light enough that reading in bed does not become an arm exercise, which the bigger one never managed. Everything lives on it now, offline, so the patchy signal along the coast makes no difference at all!
Used for: Less than a month
The pencil is always attached and always charged
The screen picks up every fingerprint
Scribbling on screenshots has become a daily habit, mostly because the pencil sticks to the side and never ends up in a drawer. A fortnight in and it has not once been flat.
Used for: 3–6 months
You will want the keyboard for the timeline
Video editing on a tablet sounded like a compromise and it has not been one. Four camera angles of a wedding, cut on the sofa, exported while the kettle boiled, and the fan never came on because there is not one. Two terabytes is the reason it works: the footage stays on the device from card to export, with no shuffling onto a drive halfway through. The keyboard is essential for the timeline, though.
Used for: Less than a month
Sample libraries live on the device
The keyboard is a serious extra purchase
Bought for music, which is not what most of these reviews are about. Twenty tracks with plug-ins running and it has not stuttered once, and the two terabytes mean the sample libraries live on the device instead of on an external drive on a cable. The pencil gets used for automation curves, which sounds daft and works beautifully. The grumble is the same as everyone else's: the keyboard is an extra purchase, a serious one, and without it this is a machine you use on a table with a stand. First fortnight and no regrets otherwise!
Used for: 6–12 months
Most of a year with this as the main machine at home, and the summary is that it does ninety percent of what a laptop does, beautifully, and fights you over the last ten. The screen is worth the money on its own. Films look like the cinema, drawing is instant, and outside in the garden it stays readable. With the keyboard attached it weighs about the same as the laptop it displaced, which rather undoes the argument, and the whole thing cost more than that laptop did. Battery is the surprise: eight or nine hours of ordinary use, a weekend away on a single charge if it is only reading. Four stars, and the star is missing because of the software rather than the hardware.
Used for: 6–12 months
Everything offline, all of the time
Fingerprints everywhere
Two terabytes, and the entire film collection now travels with us!
Used for: Less than a month
As a tablet it is excellent
Two terabytes is money spent on very little
Three stars because two terabytes on a tablet is a lot of money for storage I am not convinced anyone needs. Lovely machine, but the sensible version is the one below this, and I wish somebody had said so.
Used for: Less than a month
Moving over from the old one took no effort
Still nothing worth calling a charger in the box
Everything came over from the old iPad while the kettle boiled, apps, notes and all
Used for: More than a year
Two years of daily use, still not a mark
Used for: 1–3 months
Coursework machine that turns back into a telly
The keyboard costs more than it ought to
My son does his coursework on it with the keyboard, then takes the keyboard off and watches something. Two devices for the price of one, if you ignore what the keyboard cost!