Pads are useful due to convenience. They are simpler devices to pull out of a bag and interface with compared to a laptop. A laptop is objectively better for most tasks but the whole getting it out and unfolding it is a chore.
It's kind of hard to explain. They're just way more portable than a laptop for quick-access stuff.
I have a laptop and a pad at home, the pad gets way more use because it's just easier to cart it around the place as a mobile internet browser... And that is more or less all it is, an internet browser.
I never said it's too much work, I'm saying that if a better device exists people would prefer to use the better device.
If the task is simply to have a notepad and web browser then carrying a pad around all day is just more convenient to carrying a laptop around all day. The laptop has a million extra things it can do of course but ultimately the 2 things you do with 99% of your usage as a student are to scribble down small notes which you can do with a stylus and get automatically converted into typed font or browsing the web.
Same goes for general around the house use really.
A laptop is only necessary when your work is more complicated than web browsing and taking notes, for example if you need to do video or image editing while mobile, or 3d editing, etc etc. More complex tasks. For most people's usage a pad is simply a more convenient device.
Pads are useful due to convenience. They are simpler devices to pull out of a bag and interface with compared to a laptop. A laptop is objectively better for most tasks but the whole getting it out and unfolding it is a chore.
It's kind of hard to explain. They're just way more portable than a laptop for quick-access stuff.
I have a laptop and a pad at home, the pad gets way more use because it's just easier to cart it around the place as a mobile internet browser... And that is more or less all it is, an internet browser.
If opening a laptop is too much work idk what to tell you...
I never said it's too much work, I'm saying that if a better device exists people would prefer to use the better device.
If the task is simply to have a notepad and web browser then carrying a pad around all day is just more convenient to carrying a laptop around all day. The laptop has a million extra things it can do of course but ultimately the 2 things you do with 99% of your usage as a student are to scribble down small notes which you can do with a stylus and get automatically converted into typed font or browsing the web.
Same goes for general around the house use really.
A laptop is only necessary when your work is more complicated than web browsing and taking notes, for example if you need to do video or image editing while mobile, or 3d editing, etc etc. More complex tasks. For most people's usage a pad is simply a more convenient device.