@My Spot @Madmick (edit: sorry to tag you guys in, but I really value your opinion if this is in your area of expertiese).
Sorry this probably isn't the right thread, but hoping your guys' expertise can help me.
I travel lots, and currently when I have to go light, I go with my Microsoft Laptop Surface Go 2. This thing isn't a beast by any stretch - it has an 8th gen M3 processor (i think a low energy i3 equivalent) and only 8 gigs of Ram. But it has treated me really well as it runs full Windows 11, is built solid, and does enough to get by.
Buuuut, I'm thinking of upgrading, and I see the Samsung Galaxy tab 10S plus, which is like a 12 inch tablet, where you can buy a detachable keyboard. It's slightly bigger, but seems still very light and mobile.
The primary attraction to me is a low reflective OLED screen - as I would use this for watching movies while in planes etc, it has a micro SD slot which is convenient for me because I generally have a lot of photos I like to back up when on the road, and streaming sports. The specs though are a bit weird:
1) it has a "mediatek" processor - 8 core
2) only 12 GB of RAM (I'd prefer 16GB minimum)
3) is Android OS
So wondering if you guys have any insight around:
- is android OS for a tablet much "lighter" than windows, such that a 12GB of RAM suffices more than say 12GB for a windows based system
- is the android OS very "limiting" - I assume stuff like Office works fine. But I also had an apple Ipad ages ago (like over 10 years ago now) and it didn't really jive with me. The file management kind of sucked. I don't know how tablet OS has evolved since then, or if the Android OS is similar to Apple OS
- is a mediatek processor "good". Samsung doesn't seem to be "advertising" it, perhaps because it's a cost saver as opposed to using intel or a snapdragon
- is going from Wifi5 to Wifi 6E any sort of a difference maker?