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Lotus Notes Support On The Road

Quite a lot of what I do in my day-to-day work is support. Not only my own work but that of others. Most - if not all - of this support work is Notes-based and some of it requires quick turnaround. So much so that I find myself needing to do support work while on the move.

Although my Yoga 13 is quite small and fairly portable it can be a pain to take it everywhere and I'd been looking for something even more portable for a while.

Last week I bought a Lenovo ThinkPad Tablet 2 (I'm very brand-loyal to Lenovo at the moment) which is smaller, lighter and less expensive to lose.

Hey, who am I kidding, really I'm just making up excuses to buy things. I get an itch to buy some new piece of kit once or twice a year and it's been a while since I got my un-boxing fix!

I've been playing with the Tablet 2 a little now and I'm quite impressed. Not blown away, mind. Just impressed. The Yoga is still my preferred support tool when I'm going away for any length of time, but I can see the Tablet 2 getting used too when I'm just out and about and when I anticipate there being no WiFi (I went for the 3G version and have a pre-paid SIM in it so I can support from almost anywhere).

The stand-out feature of the Tablet 2 is that it's no bigger than an iPad (in fact it's smaller) but still it runs full Windows. I can run full-blown Lotus Notes and Domino Designer on it, as you can see below. Also below you can see it's running ScanEz which is an absolute must for my support duties.

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And here it is running Notes in "tablet mode" -- without the (optional) Bluetooth keyboard:

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And here they both are stowed away in their sleeve (with a mouse on top to give you an idea just how small this portable Notes solution is).

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The tablet only has 2GB RAM but is ok for occasional use and runs Domino Designer no problems. Battery life is pretty good and almost "all day". It charges from a micro-USB charger, so can share my phone's charger, which is nice.

What I've not shown above is the digitizer pen which is quite nifty. Also nice that the pen stows away in the tablet (see the red dot in the photo above).

The only annoyance so far is that you need to turn the keyboard off (hold power button for 3 seconds) before placing it in the pouch. If you don't then the optical track-point mouse keeps the tablet awake as the sleeve is constantly in contact with it and wakes Windows.

All in all though it's a nice little product and I've no regrets buying. Recommended.

Only trouble now is that I'm running of things I "need" to buy ready for my next fix.

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    • Aaron Hardin
    • Wed 10 Jul 2013 02:57 PM

    Nice information Jake!

    I've got a Dell Latitude 10 on the way and am hoping to have as much success with it. I'm brand loyal currently to Dell just because I think it will be a little easier building a single image for all computers on site. But we'll see.

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      • Jake Howlett
      • Wed 10 Jul 2013 02:59 PM

      I was once loyal to Dell. Can't remember what reason (if any) ended that.

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  1. "Only trouble now is that I'm running of things I "need" to buy ready for my next fix." Buy an electric guitar. And an amp. And some effects pedals. You need them. Everybody does.

    1. seconded. You also need a night-time motion activated game camera for your garden.

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        • Jeroen Jacobs
        • Fri 12 Jul 2013 07:57 AM

        No, you need a Raspberry Pi that you turn into a nigh-time motion activated camera :-)

        1. mit lasers. Just because.

    • avatar
    • ChrisC
    • Mon 15 Jul 2013 03:17 AM

    Electronic drum kit. Got ma eye on one of them bad boys.

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      • Jake Howlett
      • Mon 15 Jul 2013 03:19 AM

      You guys are all assuming I have even the slightest hint of musical talent. Even my musical *taste* is bad! Cough. Jean Michel Jarre.

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