- An ultrabook with good battery life is the best choice for a university student. It is the most capable, most convenient, and most productive option by far.
With any tablet, regardless of OS, you would have a LOT of compromises and you would have to settle for a LOT of workarounds.10-31-12 01:57 PMLike 0 - I'm in second year engineering. As of yet I have not had to write any extensive papers/essays, or make any presentations. The only thing I can not do on my PlayBook is computer programming and matlab. If you really don't want a laptop it could be done because, as has been said, there are many computers on campus with the programs installed. I have all my textbooks and pdf notes on my PlayBook and to take notes I have my files synced to Skydrive or use Splashtop. I play varsity soccer so for all the long bus rides or free time at other universities, I have everything I need accessible in a 7" form and get a lot done while others avoid bringing work or complain about how heavy their bag is haha
It works for me. I prefer to have a laptop for regular usage but I could easily do without. To each his own.10-31-12 02:04 PMLike 0 - I suggest you to get windows 8 surface, which is really a portable pc, and has more apps than playbook10-31-12 02:17 PMLike 0
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That, and simple collaboration with working teams, would make me shy away from a tablet only solution at this point. Paired with a laptop it might offer extra utility, but if I only had one device it would absolutely be a laptop over any tablet.10-31-12 03:00 PMLike 0 - You could also use the PB to make audio recordings of lectures and then go back and transcribe them later. Fast typing will be made less important since you'd be able to pause the audio at any time. Some professors want you to ask permission before recording their lectures, but most don't care.10-31-12 04:57 PMLike 0
- Your claim is not supported by a reasoned argument. I dare say the majority of undergraduate university students in the arts, humanities, social science faculties could effectively use the BlackBerry PlayBook during their four years in an academic environment. A notebook computer or desktop computer is not a requirement for these students despite your assertion to the contrary. The combination of BlackBerry PlayBook, Bluetooth keyboard and mouse, and a carefully selected suite of applications and/or web browser accessible services would meet the needs of these students.
- how does SPSS run on the playbook?
- How does Nvivo run on the playbook?
- How does Atlas Ti run on the playbook?
- how does Refworks run on the playbook?
- How does Zetero run on the playbook?
- Many of the textbooks we provide electronic - students like to be able to snap word into the left of their screen and the ebook on the right - how would you do that on the playbook?
That's just off the top of my head - what VLEs specifically support the playbook?
If the OP is writing essays and printing them or submitting them electronically and those documents are not being marked-up by the professor, lecturer, or teaching assistant the student could and should be using LaTeX and producing a PDF document for submission.
Anyone planning to do a degree using just a tablet - be it a playbook, an ipad or something else is bonkers - they are handy supplementary devices, I'm sure some people like Maruader are managing fine but there are way too many compromises to be making blanket statements that the majority could manage just fine.BoldPreza likes this.10-31-12 05:08 PMLike 1 -
Regarding equation editors, I haven't had to use any. I would probably use my laptop for that. As a student, you could get by with only the playbook if you wanted to but you would need access to a computer on campus. In other words, you'd be better off getting a laptop.10-31-12 05:42 PMLike 0 - A social sciences academic asks
- how does SPSS run on the playbook?
- How does Nvivo run on the playbook?
- How does Atlas Ti run on the playbook?
- how does Refworks run on the playbook?
- How does Zetero run on the playbook?
- Many of the textbooks we provide electronic - students like to be able to snap word into the left of their screen and the ebook on the right - how would you do that on the playbook?10-31-12 07:48 PMLike 0 - Regarding equation editors, I haven't had to use any. I would probably use my laptop for that. As a student, you could get by with only the playbook if you wanted to but you would need access to a computer on campus. In other words, you'd be better off getting a laptop.10-31-12 07:54 PMLike 0
- To be frank, I tried the tablet thing though that was with my old Motorola Xoom and couldn't stand it. With the PlayBook and the little keyboard, I think you will be fine for note taking but IMO there are some things a PlayBook just can't do that a laptop would. Like print for example.11-01-12 12:41 AMLike 0
- You could also use the PB to make audio recordings of lectures and then go back and transcribe them later. Fast typing will be made less important since you'd be able to pause the audio at any time. Some professors want you to ask permission before recording their lectures, but most don't care.11-01-12 01:16 AMLike 0
- To be frank, I tried the tablet thing though that was with my old Motorola Xoom and couldn't stand it. With the PlayBook and the little keyboard, I think you will be fine for note taking but IMO there are some things a PlayBook just can't do that a laptop would. Like print for example.11-01-12 01:19 AMLike 0
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Zetero probably could work with the BlackBerry PlayBook web browser if someone from the development team at RIM reached out to Zetero11-01-12 04:46 AMLike 0
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