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I am going to say yes. They "dell" have gotten worse in the past few years for support. I was a dell fan, now, not so much. 3 of my Dell laptops have wake issues where they don't turn on or just fire up with black screen. It's a known problem via many people on their support site and Dell are offering no fix or remedy. I am figuring you will have to contact them and do a transfer to keep said warranty intact.

I have both the P8P and the s25 Ultra, I prefer the 8 pro in every single way. I hate all the garbage in the OneUI Skin. We both (my wife and I) use Microsoft launcher to get rid of the google search bar, and add icon packs. Other than that all that whizbang'ery of OneUi is added bloat. We get through a day of heavy use without issue and I have never had a slow down because of a "slow" processor. Benchmarks don't me a fiddlers fart in real world use. As proven by my laptop benching better on affinity photo with my Xe Graphics from 2020 vs a radeon 890m from 2025.

It is but we keep our systems for a long time. My current dell is from 2020 and in all honesty, I do love the system. The issue is I have to fight some times to turn it on. Meaning there is a software issue dell refuses to fix on their laptops. You press the power button and it either does not produce graphics display or it does for a second and goes black or distorted. I have to boot my system 3 or 4 times to get it to work. It's a known dell laptop issue, and 3 of ours are affected. No bios updates etc fix it. There are many many reports of this issue on the Dell forums and there are no fixes. Then, I am looking at the current state of windows as well. The software I will be using is available on Mac for the most part with one program available on windows, Mac OS and android. Supposedly there is a web based version as well. So that would be my only stumbling point. I only have 2 laptops on the windows side that would work for me which is the Razer 14 and the Asus proart/G 16. I am missing items with both. Plus with the price of both of them I could get 2 macbook air's configured the way I want for both of us. The iPad I have now is working fine and doing the things I need. Would more power be better for my creative work? sure, but if I got the macbook it would be a great companion device.

My wife and I are starting something new here, so I will be purchasing two new laptops and desktops for us asap. I am doing some research. I have my iPad already for in the field use. I think it will work for now. I am seriously looking at moving to the "darkside" for our pcs. think I am wanting to try something new and apple has it. I won't be getting rid of my pixel devices, but I am seriously looking at a new ipad, macbook and imac for her and a new macbook and mini pro for me. I really don't know at this time. Windows pcs are all over the place now where I see no benefit of buying one over a mac. There use to be lots of benefits like upgrades when you are ready, software compatibility etc. Now it's you are buying a windows macbook without the high quality.

My printer is actually wifi I probably can get a dock but no software to run the scanner. I use it to scan 35mm and 120mm film from my film cameras . I am typing this on the iPad now and enjoying the experience. I have to figure out what I need for my business software and go from there.

Not for these printers and scanners no. it's all via USB.

Upon further research, one glaring problem with doing the switch to iPad, is peripherals. I have an Epson flatbed scanner for scanning film and a large format Epson printer for printing large images. Neither are Bluetooth. iPad does not work with USB printing. OH WELL. back to windows. ha ha.

How’s your tablet working for you? Still using it as your primary? My wife and I are moving to iPad for our only computers soon. Everything I need is on iPad and same with her. She’s going to get the max spec IPad Air, and I am getting the max spec iPad Pro. Both 13 inch. On our desks we will both have alogic widescreens Hers will be a 34 mines going to be a 40. Add in keyboards and mice and speakers. I will sell all our PCs to offset cost.

So I did the affinity 2.5 photo processing benchmark using my dell laptop with the 1165G7 and iris Xe and compared to a asus laptop with the HX 365 and 890m graphics onboard. Supposedly the 890 is the be all end all of on chip GPU performance. Well my pc posted a 4690 for GPU performance, the 890 that was tested posted a 3367. Is this because I have 64gb of ram?

I would never go AMD previously, but as a Canadian Citizen, the US government owning a 10 percent share of intel is enough for me to remove all intel systems out of my household. I will be either going to AMD or ARM for my new systems coming into the household in a few months. Intel will be completely removed from service.

I have been using iPadOS 26 for about a week now and there is lots to like. The actual ability to use windows now is great, and multitasking is working excellent. The menus and stop lights at the top of each app are great additions. Some downsides is that when using edge and safari, when I got to type in forums like this, the OS stutters and skips an extra screen then goes back, and typing from my Logitech keyboard and track pad lag bad. I do hope they get this fixed soon.

I have be playing more with my iPad using the 26 preview. It’s WAY better now that they gave it more MacOS like features and usefulness. I am going to see how it goes.

Our systems from now on are going to be all AMD. having the US gooberment own a 10 percent stake in intel is enough to shun them forever. As if they weren't in deep poopy before, this has put the final nail in the coffin. within a year they will be shuttering their processor business. The plus plus plus side to this is AMD/radeon systems work awesome with Linux.

in almost ALL cases it worsens the experience. FIXT that for you. ha ha!

I agree Copilot and ai should be a downloadable app. As for the two different os, not necessary. WIndows 10 had it nailed with the tablet mode. desktop for the default mode and hit the tablet mode for tablet touchscreen use. It worked perfect. unlike now where they messed up both desktop functionality and touch functionality. I am indifferent either way now as I am shifting towards linux for everything and happy to do so.

I have my pixel setup like that too. We are in a hotel right now and the WIFI is sewage. I setup my hotspot and all is good.

Not in the least. Anyone who supports that has shit for brains.

Every accusation is a confession with the righty trumpanzees. nice try though. Keep drinking the koolaid, lemming.

ha ha ha. what a Joke. theres only one clown and he wears orange makeup.

Sent that to my District Manager today since we are hawking perplexity Ai. SMDH.

Ok, does Radeon have the same problem or just Nvidia?

Cool, I will give it a shot. It will be running on my XPS 8940, 10700 i7, 128gb of ram and 2070 super. Should be fine.

I have made up my mind that I am buying something that has 5g connectivity for sure. I had my iPad with me during my week long camping trip. Never missed a beat. Just open it up and do what I needed to do without having to setup hotspot on my phone etc. I will be moving to an android tablet but it will need 5g in order for me to consider. What are your suggestions on which one?

Ease of use for people who are used to windows made me choose mint. I chose Zorin because I like the touchscreen aspects of it on some of my systems. I am typing from a Zorin OS equipped little dell system right now and it's awesome.