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by tluyben2 2308 days ago
What Android tablet is comparable to a modern iPad pro in performance, screen and battery life? I really like the iPad pro but I hate the artificial restrictions... All the Android tablets I tried out, flag ship ones, just fell down compared. I have a Surface Go for when I need Windows, but that is probably one of the worst buys of my life.

I currently use iPad Pro with Remotix to access OS X + Windows which works really well. If there was a Remotix for Linux, I would use Linux only, but there is no comparable VNC client for Linux. Compared the ones under Linux are unusable (and I did try them all).
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bibyte 2308 days ago
What about the Samsung Galaxy Tab S6? It seems to be comparable to the iPad Pro in terms of performance and screen. I tried out an Android tablet a few months ago and it seemed pretty fine.

If your want to do portable programming I would recommend a light 2 in 1 laptop. You can dual boot Windows and Linux on it (Windows for media consumption and Linux for programming). But it is bigger then a tablet.

Of course if you use a server you can use anything you want to do programming. But personally the latency is a dealbreaker for me.

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tluyben2 2308 days ago
I will try the S6; it seems good but someone told me there are no really solid keyboards for it? I never checked it because I already had an iPad.

> But personally the latency is a dealbreaker for me.

I had that issue too :) However that changed when remotemac (no affiliation) introduced me to Remotix; I live in the mountains and my internet is bad, and yet it has no latency with 4k screen transferring. Anything on Linux is just horrible compared. I develop apps on my iPad and it works really well like that.

My ‘dream’ (bit extreem but lets say preferred way of working) is to use my x220 with Linux to do that; then I can do all dev on that machine while doing iOS dev remotely. Now I still have to carry an Android tab, Windows laptop (I can do that on the x220 but I really do not like to dual boot) or iPad with me.

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arm 2308 days ago
If you don’t mind moving away from the VNC protocol, the NX protocol (via NoMachine¹) is a fantastic alternative. Faster than VNC and can forward audio from the server to the client as well.

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¹ — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NX_technology

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