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Used for: Less than a month
Half a terabyte was the right call for me, since the photos live in the cloud and the only local hogs are two virtual machines for testing. It arrived charged and set itself up over the flat's Wi-Fi in twenty minutes, though it then wanted an hour of updates before it would settle
Used for: Less than a month
Lighter than the laptop it replaced by nearly a kilo
Used for: More than a year
An hour less battery than when it was new
Battery after a year and a bit is noticeably shorter, maybe an hour off a working day, which for a machine used this hard is fair enough
Used for: More than a year
Survives a rucksack without a scratch
Two years of commuting in a rucksack and not a mark on it
Used for: 3–6 months
Stands up anywhere without a case
Fingerprints on the screen are relentless
Kickstand out on the kitchen worktop and it becomes the recipe book, then back in the bag by eight!
Used for: 1–3 months
Mark up a photograph on site and send it there and then
The screen is hard to read in direct sun
Site visits used to mean a laptop, a folder and a camera. Now it is this and a pen, photographs marked up on the spot and emailed before I am back in the van!
Used for: 6–12 months
Screen and pen are both excellent
512GB disappears once Windows and Office have had their share
The gap between what this is sold as and what it is in daily use comes down to two things. First, 512GB is less than it sounds once Windows, Office and a couple of design programs have taken their share. I am at eighty percent full with nothing much on it, and I did not expect to be managing storage on a machine this expensive. Second, the folio keyboard flexes in the middle if you type hard. It is fine on a desk and a compromise on a train. What keeps it at three rather than two is the screen and the pen, both genuinely excellent, and the fact that it runs every awkward program my employer insists on. Seven months in I use it daily and grumble daily.
Used for: 3–6 months
A full page of a contract without scrolling
The 3:2 screen is the quiet reason this beats a laptop for paperwork. A full page of a contract fits without scrolling, two columns fit side by side, and after months of it a widescreen laptop looks like a letterbox. Battery does a working day of documents and mail with the brightness at half, though a morning of video calls eats it noticeably faster.
Used for: 1–3 months
Marked-up drawings go back the same afternoon
Everything older than it needs an adapter
Handed the old laptop to my son and took this instead, mostly for the pen. Marking up drawings and sending them back the same afternoon has changed how I work. What I did not think about is that everything is USB-C now. The old projector cable, the memory card reader, the printer lead, all of them need an adapter, and the hub is now a permanent resident of the bag. Not a fault exactly, but budget for it.
Used for: 1–3 months
Handwritten notes land straight on the slides
The folio is essential and costs a lot on top
University was the reason for it and after a term I would buy it again. Lectures get handwritten onto the PDF of the slides, so the notes and the deck end up in one file rather than two, and searching my own handwriting still feels like a party trick. Held in bed it is heavier than a paperback and lighter than a laptop, which is about the right place. Nine hours of lectures, notes and a film on the bus home and it came back with a fifth left. The folio is essential, not optional, and the price of it made my eyes water. Everything else has been a pleasure!