I was appalled by the Samsung Galaxy Note when I tried one. The pen would draw without even being in contact with the screen. Tablets and digital sketchpads ar

I was appalled by the Samsung Galaxy Note when I tried one. The pen would draw without even being in contact with the screen. Tablets and digital sketchpads are sort of alien to me as concepts. I like a pen and paper for sketching and a desktop when I'm designing/developing. A laptop for on-the-road server maintenance or random, trivial updates to projects (though some of these tasks can even be done from my iPhone). The iPad and the Chromebook just about make sense as your go-to device when you can't sleep or you're having a lazy Sunday morning. Or as web-browsers while you're watching a movie and need to Google something more interesting that the shitty movie you're watching. But these are kind of luxury devices considering that I can use my phone for these tasks, so the tablet-tier device seems to be an expensive statement accessory. That said, I've tried a few tablets. Especially since my wife kept pressuring me to buy her one. So I tried the Nexus 7 & 10, the Surface and the iPad. The Surface was by far the least crippled of the devices.