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I abandoned my iPad for an Android tablet and didn’t hate it
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When the first iPad came out I wondered wtf was the point of a tablet, and I’m still wondering
As a current university student, I see a lot of iPads and Surface tablets in my classes. They have essentially replaced traditional laptops in any specialties that isn’t computer science adjacent.
You can handwrite notes straight your textbooks/slides or type with an external keyboard without having to carry around a textbook+notebook+laptop. It’s very convenient.
The only 2 reason I can think of is price and size. Even if someone needs to draw something that can't be easily done with kbm, there are touchscreen laptops that can take care of that. But those do cost more than a cheap tablet and if you don't need any other features that needs more power then tablet would be a cheaper alternative. I don't get your second point of carrying textbook, notebook and a laptop tho, a laptop can already do all of that just like a tablet or even better. The only time someone asked me for tablet recommendations was when they needed something small to read on bed.
A touchscreen laptop is no where near the fidelity you get with the Apple pencil or a Samsung s-pen.
Lenovo has a stylus that's about as good as those, plus Samsung sells laptops that work with the s-pen and there's the Surface Laptop as well.