I'd love to hear they've finally figured all of that out, because it simply doesn't seem to work that reliably for the Lenovo ultrabooks we standardized on at work. (Windows 8/8.1).Does Airplay work with any projector in a conference room though? And besides i was mainly speaking about using it as a desktop with a bigger monitor and yes you can simply Remote desktop consistently WITH mouse support something you cant do on the iPad at all
The same was true at my last employer. We always seemed to struggle connecting the Windows boxes to the projectors. They would not come up at full resolution etc... This was Windows 7.
Since we had many Mac/iPad users at the company, an AppleTV was installed in each conference room. Keynote via AirPlay worked every time.
USB just isn't a feature of the iPad (besides the most generic camera/storage devices), and it's still a far cry of true full USB support for RT. You may not get all the advanced features of some of these devices that are only available with the desktop provided drivers. I know that's the case with the Logitech mouse I just bought for my Windows 7 desktop. It "works" without the drivers as a basic mouse, but works better with Logitech's drivers.USB drivers are managed natively by Windows now for thousands of the most used devices (kb, mice, printers, etc). Just plug in and it automatically handles the drivers. Far more than the iPad for sure.
The bit I don't get, and would really like to, is why Surface RT is better than Surface Pro. In terms of productivity, Surface Pro is better than RT. The ARM version doesn't have the access to the huge library of desktop apps, the Wacom digitizer, ... The only advantage of RT is that the ARM version is slightly lighter.If Windows had all the apps iPad has, it would be the best tablet OS currently.
That's great, but see above. That doesn't mean they work equivalently to how they work on Windows Desktop. Or even Linux or Mac OS.Most every device that I threw at the tablet works with the drivers Microsoft developed.
And that's the same calculus many others make with the iPad. It's good enough for me so "better" is completely irrelevant.However, for people like me, it is not relevant.
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