For me I say that a truck with a cab longer than its bed is not a truck, but an SUV with an overgrown bumper.

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    Phones are for talking, navigating, and casual content consumption. Desktops (and laptops) are for actually getting things done. Both are useful, but the former is not a substitute for the latter.

    Tablets are oversized phones that can’t even phone. I don’t see any use for them that isn’t better served by something else. They’d actually be useful if they ran a desktop operating system, and some early ones did, but modern ones don’t.

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      Tablets do have a singular purpose, being drawing.

      Of course, most tablets that aren’t specially built for it (or are from Apple) are terrible at it, but I definitely wouldn’t want to draw on a phone or with a mouse.

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        I seem to recall there being purpose-built drawing tablets that are only drawing tablets, and act as a peripheral to a computer rather than a computer unto themselves. That sounds good on paper, since then you can still use the keyboard and mouse for everything other than drawing, but I’ve never used one, so I wouldn’t know.

        Also, there are laptops with touchscreens and full-range hinges. With that, you could do your drawing on an actual, fully-functional laptop. I haven’t used one of those, either, though. I do have a laptop with a touchscreen, which could in theory be used for drawing, but it has a normal laptop hinge and can’t be held like a tablet or paper notebook, so actually drawing on it is cumbersome at best.

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          I felt the same way until I took up drawing.

          I’ve used both, and I’ll take an iPad over a wakom tablet for drawing any day. Every time I got an os update the tablet would stop working. I couldn’t really find a convenient spot for it on my desk. It was huge and made my keyboard awkward to use. Meanwhile, I can carry my iPad around with me and am not tethered to my desk for digital drawing.

          I also have terrible vision, it’s far easier for me to read (the internet) on an iPad than on my phone.

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            How do you feel about convertible laptops, then? That should give you the tablet-like experience you prefer, but it’s a full-featured computer instead of a crippled sorta-computer.

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          I will never buy another laptop that does not become a tablet, whether by turning the hinge all the way around or by pulling the screen off. I prefer the latter design but most of the industry seems to have settled on the former. My favorite laptop I’ve ever owned from a hardware design perspective was a Thinkpad Helix.

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      My dermatologist uses a tablet. Seems way more useful than a phone (larger screen) or laptop (handheld, more portable). I use mine mainly for reading, mainly graphic novels, but also for Slack, Zoom calls, and general one-off productivity away from my office where my laptop lives.

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        Tablets are good for reading comics as well as PDFs that don’t fit very well on an e-reader’s screen.

        Edit: Meant to reply to the top-level comment, my bad. Will just leave it here.

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      What about when I want a larger screen than what my phone offers without the added bulk of a physical keyboard? What should I use then?

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        Funny you should say that. I would very much like a phone that has a physical keyboard, like my old Droid 3 had.

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          Imagine if it was just like, a slightly thicker device and the screen slid up to reveal a keyboard, how crazy would that be amiright? Hopefully one day we have the technology…