And I learned about the Microsoft Wireless Display Adapter, which I could use to connect wirelessly to a projector. My messenger bag would be considerably lighter, as the Surface Pro would replace both my heavy laptop and the Qomo tablet. The Surface Pro was powerful enough that I could also use it as the primary computer in my home office. Having a tablet with a detachable keyboard would allow me to use the tablet for presentations, then add the “type cover” for other work. I’d heard about the Microsoft Surface Pro 3, and I found it appealing for several reasons.
And continuing to use my Qomo tablet wasn’t really an option, as Qomo is phasing it out and won’t be producing a Windows 10 version. Just as importantly, it allowed me to be wireless-I could roam the seminar room instead of being anchored to my laptop.īut by the end of 2015 my Dell had slowed down drastically-it was time for a change. Trying to do it by using my laptop’s touchpad instead would have been hopeless. For one thing, it allowed me to annotate my presentation in a way that otherwise would have been impossible with my Dell. For me, the effect was comparable to what I imagine performing arthroscopic surgery would be like for a doctor: instead of watching what I was writing with the stylus, I would watch the projected image. Whatever I would mark on the blank plastic surface of the tablet with the accompanying stylus would appear on the PowerPoint slide on my laptop screen and on the projected image in the seminar room. I would then connect the Qomo tablet to my laptop by means of a USB dongle in my laptop. That’s because it doesn’t have a screen.įor my seminars, I would connect my laptop to the projector in the seminar room, using a VGA cable. By contrast, the Qomo tablet was something of an oddity, routinely drawing quizzical glances from operatives as airport security stations. (That’s my Qomo tablet in the photo to the right.) There’s nothing much to say about the Dell-it was a reliable workhorse. (The photo above is of my SP4 and a hotel-room TV, each showing an annotated PowerPoint slide.) In this post I explain why, and I consider the pros and cons.įrom 2010 until late last year, my seminar rig consisted of a Dell XPS L401X laptop and a Qomo QIT30 tablet. I now use a Microsoft Surface Pro 4 to annotate my presentations. Instead, it’s that I roam the world giving PowerPoint presentations as part of my “Drafting Clearer Contracts” seminars, with my presentations featuring extracts of contract text on which I scribble during my seminars. When it comes to my computing needs, what’s most distinctive isn’t that I write stuff, or that I have websites and a blog, or that I record the occasional webinar.
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