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Used for: 3–6 months
Unlocks by face before I have properly sat down
Face unlock is quick enough that the cover is open and I am typing before the old machine would have found my fingerprint
Used for: Less than a month
Genuinely light enough to hold up in bed
The keyboard cover is sold separately and you will want it
Reading on it one-handed is where it surprised me, because a Windows machine this size has no business sitting at just under 900 grams. Where it stops being clever is that the tablet on its own is not a laptop. The cover that turns it into one is a separate purchase, and you tend to discover that at the basket rather than on the shelf
Used for: 3–6 months
Splitting the screen two ways actually works here
Standby drain over a quiet week in the bag
Two windows side by side at readable sizes is the thing I use hardest, a call on one half and the spreadsheet on the other, and at 13 inches that is genuinely usable rather than a party trick. Leave it in a bag over a quiet week, though, and it comes out flat. Four stars for that alone.
Used for: 1–3 months
Runs the same software as the desktop, no compromises
The point of it over an iPad is that nothing has to change. The same photo editor, the same VPN client, the same awkward internal tool that only ships for Windows, all of it just opens. Docked at work it drives a 27 inch monitor and behaves like a desktop, then unclips onto the sofa and is a tablet again. Heavier than an iPad, though, and the bag knows it!
Used for: 6–12 months
The pen keeps up with a fast scrawl
Standby still drinks a little
Handwriting on it beats a notebook, the pen no longer trails behind a quick scrawl, and eight months in the nib has not worn
Used for: More than a year
Still the machine I reach for first
The pen goes missing constantly
The only thing I have lost in over a year of daily carrying is the pen, twice
Used for: Less than a month
One cable at the desk brings everything
Only two ports, and the charger wants one of them
One lead at the desk brings the monitor, the network and the power, so arriving in the morning is plug in and go. Two ports is tight though!
Used for: More than a year
A terabyte means I stopped deleting things
The fan wakes up under a long export
The whole photo library lives on it now, which was the entire reason for the bigger drive, and there is still room to spare with all the old scans on there as well. It does whirr away when Lightroom gets going, though!
Used for: Less than a month
The kickstand needs a proper desk, not a train tray
Bought it to stop carrying a laptop and a paper notebook to site visits, and on a desk it does exactly that. Type cover on, a second window docked to the side, and it behaves like any other machine. On a train tray table the kickstand is another matter. It wants more depth than the tray gives you, so it ends up angled on my knees where I can just about read it