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Used for: 3–6 months
Keyboard on, it writes; keyboard off, it entertains
The keyboard folio is the thing that decides whether this is a laptop or a telly, and I have ended up with both. Attached, it does the writing, the email and the spreadsheets, and the trackpad is good enough that I stopped reaching for the screen. Detached, it is what the children watch on the way to Cornwall, and the SIM means they can watch it anywhere. Battery has been the quiet triumph. A whole day of writing in a library, brightness up because the windows are enormous, and it came home with a quarter left. One star short only because of what the whole lot costs by the time the pencil and the folio are on the bill.
Used for: More than a year
No sign of ageing after eighteen months
The case corner has worn before the tablet has
Eighteen months of daily use and the only sign of it is a slightly worn corner on the case. Charges overnight to the same place it always has, opens instantly, and it is still the thing everyone in the house fights over!
Used for: 6–12 months
Working from cafes is the whole reason for the SIM, and it has never once needed a password from a barista. It picks up a signal, it opens the files, and the meeting happens. The stand case is what turns it into a workstation, and without one it is a very expensive placemat. With the pencil and the keyboard it has taken over from the laptop for everything except the accounts, though those still insist on a proper computer!
Used for: More than a year
Draws, reads and watches, all in the one device
The pencil still has to be bought separately
It arrived as a drawing board and has become the television, the newspaper and the sketchbook as well. The cellular means the newspaper arrives on the train. Two years on, the battery still does a day of drawing.
Used for: 3–6 months
A magazine page at its actual size
The screen at thirteen inches is why a magazine looks like a magazine and a drawing has room to breathe, though the weight means it lives on a stand or a lap rather than in one hand.
Used for: 6–12 months
Films on a train, drawings in a cafe, mail in between
Used for: Less than a month
Wakes instantly and the pencil keeps up with the hand
Two hands, and not a bed tablet
Coming from a nine year old iPad, the difference is not subtle: it wakes instantly, the pencil draws where you put it rather than a fraction behind, and the screen makes the old one look grey. The cellular was the deciding factor and the eSIM took about five minutes to set up in the network's app, no tray, no card. The weight is real, though. It is a two-handed tablet and reading in bed with it is a short-lived idea. Everything else has been a delight so far!
Used for: 6–12 months
Bought to be a laptop and it cannot be one
One star is a strong statement and I have thought about it for months before writing. This was bought to be the laptop for a working writer and it cannot do the job. Two apps at once is the limit, the file system fights you, and the moment a publisher sends anything that is not a PDF the whole thing stalls. The hardware is not at fault. The screen and the pencil are lovely and my son will get years out of it. But a machine at this money that has to sit beside a laptop rather than take its place has failed at the thing I bought it for.
Used for: Less than a month
The eSIM went on in the settings while I was still unwrapping the case, which is the sort of thing that used to take an afternoon. Four stars only because a terabyte at this price ought to come with the keyboard in the box
Used for: 1–3 months
Wants a stand before it is any use on a desk
Propped on the desk it is a second monitor, folded flat it is a sketchpad
Used for: Less than a month
The screen and the pencil are genuinely lovely
Thirteen inches turned out to be the wrong size for me
Two stars from the first fortnight, and I will say why rather than just be cross. The size is the problem I did not anticipate. Thirteen inches is a lot of tablet: it does not go in the bag I bought it for, it is too heavy to hold up for a chapter, and on the sofa it wants a stand. The cellular is a monthly bill on top of an already large sum, and out of the house it drops to the slower network more often than my phone does in the same spot. The screen is glorious and the pencil is a joy. But I bought the wrong size, and at this price that is an expensive lesson.