[teknoids] Recommendations to 1Ls on Tablets? Surface?

[Jill A. Smith]

I was asked to help my father-in-law with his (non-Pro) Surface Tablet.  I believe Microsoft raised Dante from the dead to create a 10th circle of hell for this type of experience.  I essentially had to resort to random swiping so I could generate error messages, the meaning of which I looked up on my laptop.

I've heard the Pro is much better, but the part of my brain that might believe that statement is irrevocably scarred by my go-round with FIL's tablet.

Jill A. Smith  |  Instructional Technology Librarian
GEORGETOWN LAW  |  jas515 at law.georgetown.edu
111 G. Street NW  |  Washington DC 20001
202.662.9165
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From: Bohl, Phillip C. [Phillip.Bohl at pepperdine.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2014 7:01 PM
To: Teknoids
Subject: [teknoids] Recommendations to 1Ls on Tablets? Surface?

We do not recommend any kind of tablet to incoming 1Ls.  Our recommendations are pretty much limited to a Dell laptop or an Apple Macbook Pro.

Is anyone suggesting a different primary computing platform?  I am not sure what to think about the Microsoft Surface.  I don't trust 'em … no other reason but the fact that I know very little about them.  Windows RT is a bit scary to me for the same reason.

Thanks,

Phil
Pepperdine Law
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