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Windows Surface RT Anonymous 01/16/20 (Thu) 00:25:52 No.15565

Reminder that the Windows Surface RT is an absolute piece of FUCKING shit but it's also the best .pdf reader available even today and can be found for roughly $50 on Amazon or Ebay RIGHT NOW!

>if it's a piece of shit why would I want it?

Because it's very inexpensive, its battery lasts a decent while, it has a huge screen and it can be oriented vertically without any additional accessories-and you can transfer your .pdfs and .mp4 videos to it seamlessly. As a computer it is a miserable experience, but for an artist it's a valuable tool for books, high resolution photographs for reference or figure drawing and to a lesser extent videos.

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Anonymous 01/16/20 (Thu) 07:09:49 No.15572

>>15565

>$50

Damn that's cheap. Ideally I'd get an e-ink based screen to read books on but they're still rather expensive. I'm going to wait a few years for proper affordable displays to be developed and probably get one of those.

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Anonymous 01/26/20 (Sun) 01:51:38 No.15664

>>15565

Holy shit youre right! Thanks for the heads up definitely worth it for those uses

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Anonymous 01/26/20 (Sun) 03:33:23 No.15667

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>>15664

Around when I first started back in the day I'd use a early generation Nook which is even more limited-but was still useful at the time.

The Surface RT is really a terrible machine, you can't install any software worth having on it for the most part and it's so slow it can't even open many mainstream websites, but as a book reader and image viewer it's great-and it's "ok" with .mp4 videos even if they can stutter a bit.

Admittedly you can get a pretty decent and versatile laptop from a pawn shop these days for $100 or so, but the small size of the thing really is liberating if you want to study using traditional media and aren't in the position to host a whole laptop and a large pad of paper on the same surface. As long as you know what you're getting into and why it's a worthwhile investment-even if it's truly awful as a piece of general purpose electronics. I've used a Kindle HD 10 or whatever the fuck it was called that just came out a couple years ago and honestly it wasn't much better performance-wise (too slow to open some websites), and was much less user friendly.

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Anonymous 02/10/20 (Mon) 15:23:01 No.15802

I'd like to take this opportunity to mention just how much I love my lenovo yoga book I got at a pawnshop for 120 bucks. It runs android, but there's a windows version as well (from what I've heard, windows 10 is just too processor heavy, and really bogs it down). Comes with artrage, a magnet pad to put on the lower keyboard area to capture traditional pen drawings at the same time as capturing digital below it (keyboard area is a wacom tablet). I purchased a cheap 10 dollar bluetooth keyboard since the onboard one isn't tactile, and hard to type without looking at your hands. It fits perfectly over the "keyboard" area has a nice magnet on either side of it, and when closing, I just take the keyboard off, and put it on the face or rear of the tablet. Been using it for over a year now without a computer, just to see the limitations of it. It plays media flawlessly, browses the web just fine, and does art pretty well so long as you don't go wild with the layers.

I'd definitely buy another one if I could find one sub $150

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Anonymous 02/10/20 (Mon) 17:45:28 No.15805

>>15802

Looking at the suface 2s and the RTs more, I'd say just format the OS and install bliss (android). The specs really aren't *that* bad, and on android you'd have a lot less resources being chewed up by the kernel which would leave you with more overhead. I'd imagine it would run 4k decently if you were using something like MX player, and I'd guess even VLC could handle 1080p vids. Web browsing would be tab limited, but doable.

Polite sage

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