i've been hyping it up here for a long time now on here. i finally got to test it out today and its awful. its actually worse than the Surface Pro 2. also, it doesn't help that every single other person that came in to look at one was the nerdiest NOWAGs i've seen in my life.
Surface Pro 3 is garbage
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seriously, note taking on an electronic device using a stylus is one of those things that sounds awesome right up until the point where you actually try it, and realise that a) you write at about 20% of the speed that you can type at on a laptop keyboard (assuming you touch type well), and b) it is far more cumbersome than pen+paper in basically every way.
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For stylus and writing you can look at Samsung's tablets. I have a friend who writes up everything by hand on his tablet and then he just selects what he wrote down and the app does character recognition and transforms it into text. The only issue is that it isn't too good at recognizing actual maths but other than that it was extremely smooth and worked pretty awesomely and was comfortable to hold up. I don't know what app it was but if its something you can get off the google store then any android tablet with a stylus would work as long as you find the tablet comfortable to hold. But for typing research papers... I don't think that it is good enough (better to use a laptop).
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seriously, note taking on an electronic device using a stylus is one of those things that sounds awesome right up until the point where you actually try it, and realise that a) you write at about 20% of the speed that you can type at on a laptop keyboard (assuming you touch type well), and b) it is far more cumbersome than pen+paper in basically every way.
it just takes practice
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The Samsung Note tablets have a special stylus(s-pen). I don't know if you could sub a different android tablet and try a stylus. Maybe the Surface is just as good. I know the Note is great for writing math and drawing diagrams.
I've heard handwriting on the iPad is pretty bad.
For stylus and writing you can look at Samsung's tablets. I have a friend who writes up everything by hand on his tablet and then he just selects what he wrote down and the app does character recognition and transforms it into text. The only issue is that it isn't too good at recognizing actual maths but other than that it was extremely smooth and worked pretty awesomely and was comfortable to hold up. I don't know what app it was but if its something you can get off the google store then any android tablet with a stylus would work as long as you find the tablet comfortable to hold. But for typing research papers... I don't think that it is good enough (better to use a laptop).