Just curious if anyone’s had experience using Scrivener on one of the newer Windows tablets. If it runs well enough, I could probably forego a full laptop and get the better battery life and portability. Thanks for any insights!
I have been using Scrivener on an ASUS Transformer tablet running windows 8.1 for a few months and all functions work extremely well. I notice little, if any, difference in performance when compared to running on my Windows 7 laptop. However, there is one caution I should note. The ASUS Transformer comes with a 64GB hard drive only (a 500GB hard drive is an option and when included is housed in the keyboard, so using the tablet without the keyboard does not allow access to this 500GB drive). You can also add an additional drive in the form of a Micro SD card (up to 64GB is supported for sure - maybe more). The 500GB drive and the 64GB Micro SD card are considered ‘external’ drives by the ASUS. This is an Important point if you are using certain syncing software (SugarSync for sure). Some syncing software will not allow syncing to external drives. This constrains the user to use the ‘native’ 64GB drive only for housing any data to be synced. This was a problem I encountered so I was compelled to switch from SugarSync to Cubbie as my primary mechanism for syncing across computers. Cubbie has worked extremely well so far, and I have no complaints. Just thought this point was worth noting.
Anyway, good luck. I enjoy the tablet very much and it does provide some nice and convenient portability.
Dick
Many thanks for this perspective. It’s pretty amazing to me that a writer could buy a device and the software for less than $200 and have all this.
Thanks as well for the reminder about the storage issue. I hadn’t thought about that. I use Copy and Box but should be OK in any case as I’ll only be syncing the Scrivener folder itself, which so far hasn’t gotten that big for me.
Thanks again–greatly appreciated.
Do note, it’ll have to be a Windows tablet running an Intel CPU … Scrivener won’t run otherwise. I assume that precludes the cheaper end of Windows tablets, but as a long-term Mac user, I wouldn’t know.
Mr X
To say it in a different way… check the name/version of Windows offered on the tablet very carefully.
If it it has “RT” in it, Scrivener will not run on it, as both the processor and version of Windows involved are not compatible with the traditional “Wintel” (Windows and Intel/AMD) platform.
For background as to why, use your favorite search engine to do a search on “Windows vs RT”.
Thanks, both. Great points. It’s only recently that you have to think about “Windows” running on anything other than Intel. And the definition of “Windows” itself is getting more fluid.