End of day three in the big tablet 'ouse.
Nathen is in the Diary room...
Today has been a good day for testing the tablet. I've used it both docked and undocked.
When supporting the schools, they get me for one visit, three hours a week. I usually arrive and get given a book with the issues that the school has experienced over the last week. This morning at my first site visit, I was given the book. There was plenty to go at.
Issues with permissions on the photocopier, SIMS problems talking back to the server, creating GPO's to update software etc...
Loaded up the issues into Workspace Pro and undocked.
I didn't go back to the main laptop all day. The servers could be connected to via RDP, manipulated and configured with the onscreen keyboard,
The built in web browser reports as full IE 10, so I don't have to deal with strange mobile websites or layouts so configuring the Photocopier via it's GUI wasn't an issue. I consider the workload I had at each school would have taken me just under 2 and a half hours with a laptop, and I never felt pushed for time using the tablet. So far, the Windows RT tablet is shaping up to be an excellent laptop replacement for those who actually want to do some work instead of browsing and facebook.
The only times so far I've felt restricted by the RT was when our company didn't have an up to date version of Teamviewer, and when I needed a bit of horsepower in creating a Virtual Machine. Most average users wouldn't be using either of these apps anyway.
I'm quite interested in how the iPad and Android tablets will fair doing the same styles of tasks over the coming weeks.
