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I was jhust on an airplane trip and watced with some amusement my aisle-mate fumbling with a new surface pro. When first using it on his lap, the screen kept f
by homerowilson 12y ago
I was jhust on an airplane trip and watced with some amusement my aisle-mate fumbling with a new surface pro.
When first using it on his lap, the screen kept flopping around as the kickstand slid off his legs--he eventually used the back of the seat in front of him to prop it up a bit.
Then when the tray came down, he clearly could not get a comfortable typing angle.
At some point, he dispensed with the keyboad and used it as a tablet with the kickstand on the tray, and that looked like a pretty good set up.
I asked him if he liked it near the end of the flight, and alas he said he plans to dispense with tablets all together and go back to laptops.
- untog 12y agoTo be fair, I've never found a satisfactory way to use my laptop on a plane. There's not enough leg room to put the screen at the right angle and the keyboard ends up too close to my body. Tablets are better, but as you say, when he switched to using his Surface as a tablet it worked OK. So it seems like a bit of a wash to me.
- WorldWideWayne 12y agoI was using a laptop on a plane one time and the person in front of me put their seat back without even turning around to see what was going on. It cracked the screen hinge, but luckily everything still worked. So now I'll never bring anything but a tablet on the plane.
- tjdetwiler 12y agoYou just have to be careful you don't wedge your screen up into where the tray table folds up into.