• Tryptaminev@lemm.ee
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    5 months ago

    My experience is more people having those devices on top of having laptops. I don’t know a single person in Uni that does not have a laptop at all. At last when it comes to writing reports or thesis you just need a proper keyboard device.

    Meanwhile gaming and also PC gaming has become much bigger over the years, which keeps driving computer sales.

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      5 months ago

      Believe it or not - but most people actually aren’t college students. Crazy, right?

      Anybody in this forum isn’t a typical tech user.

      I carry 3 laptops in my backpack (one for 8-5 job, one personal, and one for teaching night classes at the University) along with a foldable phone, a work phone, and e-ink notepad.

      Between my 3 laptops, Rog Ally, 2 desktops, and some old laptops I keep around for media devices and network interfaces around the property, I’ve got like 10 Windows machines in my life.

      But I also know I’m an outlier.

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        ooh! what’s the e-ink notepad, and what’s your usecase like?

        it seems so appealing to just have a functionally infinite notebook on hand, but i’ve yet to find one that could ACTUALLY replace a regular physical notebook for me.

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          Boox Tab Ultra C.

          It’s a 10" color e-ink tablet that runs Android.

          Don’t get the keyboard case for it - it sucks hard. It’s so thick it turns it into another laptop, it types terribly, and when folded backwards so you can write it still tries taking over from the pen.

          Other than that I love it.

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            argh that’s literally the ONE that was tempting me, now I guess I GOTTA buy one! this sucks!

            (thank you so much i’ve wanted to buy this since it came out)

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        5 months ago

        If you carry three laptops around you are definitely doing things wrong. There is no real world scenario where doing what you say you do needs 3 physical computers, and if you have a 9-5 AND teach night classes , you don’t have extra minutes to use your “personal” laptop that day, which leads me to call bull on the carry 3 laptops thing

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          5 months ago

          The course I teach involves photo and video editing, which I do on my personal laptop for 2 reasons:

          1. Because I own the photos and videos I capture, the raws stay on my device.
          2. My personal laptop has a lot more horsepower