While my laptop was sent to the repair shop, for cleaning and some oiling on its fan, I used my tablet to do my daily job.

Well, that is to say, it was the most unnerving experience ever.

When the evening came, I dreaded and wanted to cancel the class but hey, these students have paid me. So, I need to be responsible. I tried teaching like I used to with zoom through the tablet but it’s just very different and awkward.

It was challenging to multitask, especially when I taught using slides. I like to annotate my slides, and show detailed slides to my students. I already told my students I have hardware issues and I was sorry because the teaching was not as seamless as usual.

While using a tablet was easy to write, draft content and connect my camera memory to be uploaded online, everything else feels cumbersome and such a chore.

In the end, all I ended up getting was this Rexus mouse, Q35 that I don’t think is as great as my logitech. I know that the price itself is significantly different but having to switch to this brand for my mouse was such a downgrade but now whenever I am outside, I can just bring the mouse with me and I can write.

So, if you’re someone whose job requires nothing to do on a laptop ( minimum office task, editing and no multitask), a tablet is great but if your job is multitasking and having to actually share it with others and stream at the same time, you either need a good laptop or a pc.

At the same time, I tried using Hive the way I normally would, it was also cumbersome. One of the biggest challenges was logging into Peakd. While there are numerous options, the hive keychain way wasn’t so seamless and over tablet, they don’t have the optimized landscape viewing. So, that’s one of the ways it differs from the laptop experience.

Maybe it's already time for me to upgrade my laptop and it's already showing signs that before the year ends, an upgrade is a must. So, going to work hard for it once again 💪