On Fri, Jan 21, 2022, 10:32 Robert Citek <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 21, 2022 at 2:09 AM John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> wrote: > > > * If you have the laptop folded over, in 2-in-1 mode, how can you hold > > it up in the air (like you were reading a book sitting in a > > recliner), without your fingers pressing on the keys in back? > > > > After a certain angle, the keyboard is inactivated and the laptop acts like > a touch-screen tablet with an on-screen keyboard. That said, I never use > the 2-in-1 in tablet mode. For me, it's too awkward. When I'm reading > a book or article, I prefer my iPad or Kindle ( if outside in daylight ). > In the future, I'll probably get a tablet Chromebook and a folio case with > a bluetooth keyboard that is backlit. Something like the Lenovo 10e. > > * If you are holding it up in portrait mode, does the display > > automatically go portrait as well? > > > > Yes, the display rotates 90, 180, and 270 degrees as you rotate the > Chromebook, just like a tablet. > . I solved the same reading problem with iPad + nextcloud client sync to my server almost 2 years ago. I still like that solution today. Couple of learnings: 1. I tried light netbooks, lightweight laptops, android tablet before setling on iPad. 2. Android tablet was fin-ish, but the lack of updates made it useless in about 2 years + I did not like the wide screen format for reading. 3. Laptops/netbooks/Chromebooks end up clumsy and pretty heavy after a few minutes + battery life + page flipping/zooming and other touch related issues + it is distracting from reading because it can be used for other computing stuff + the wide screen curse. 4. I find iPad pretty useless for anything but reading. I totally hate its closed garden aproach to data, privacy, total lock-in .... For reading it works great, sreen format is excellent, and it gets updates for a long time. Using NextCloud is not a problem for me - without it, it would not work. Bast, Tomas >
