Traveling is mostly what I find the tablet use case to be. I find it useful relatively rarely at home. I try and then I just end up grabbing an older laptop from the dining room.

If you want to spend most of your time reading, a Kindle may have advantages but I'm more inclined to travel with a tablet. The newer magnetic keyboards are actually pretty good but I'm at fewer conferences and the like these days where I'm taking notes and I actually have found that I've adapted to just using a phone for many purposes.

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Zak 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

> The newer magnetic keyboards are actually pretty good

What I think I would really like is a detachable keyboard with laptop-style hinges (and maybe a secondary battery). There seem to be a few devices from about a decade ago with that kind of design but they died out in favor of flexible connectors and kickstands.

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ghaff 2 days ago | parent [-]

The newish Apple magnetic keyboards seem pretty good for using on your lap at a conference which was one of my showstoppers for a lot of earlier tablet designs. Though I haven't had a lot of opportunity to try it in practice. And I'm just so used to laptop multi-window that I probably would need to just spend some time adapting.

A more hybrid design seems to make a lot of sense but it just seems to involve compromises on both the laptop and tablet ends. Even the Apple tablets with keyboards probably don't have a lot of advantages over the Air unless you're watching a movie or reading a book on a flight or train.

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Zak 2 days ago | parent [-]

I'm not imagining much compromise on the tablet side - at least not more than Microsoft's Surface keyboard connector. I'm thinking of thin tabs attached to the hinges slotting into the tablet body.

It would still be pretty compromised as a laptop, but better in that role than current tablet keyboard solutions.

	▲	ghaff 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		As I say, software differences aside, my experience with the current magnetic Apple keyboard and the touchpad seem pretty good. I'm not sure a probably relatively weak mechanical coupling would be better.

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______ 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Having a kitchen tablet is also amazing - I have a ten year old iPad Pro with the keyboard, it's great for looking up recipes and following along, and also messaging while cooking.

	▲	ghaff 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		I've tried it and even built a stand for one at one point. Again, I usually have an old laptop on my dining room table. Maybe as I reconfigure my house after a kitchen fire and revert my dining room table from a work surface, I'll give it another try. You actually give me an idea that I have an old iPad and a laptop stand I never use (probably a work thing I didn't think to return) and I may give it a try especially given I mostly use just a few sites.