On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 4:27 PM, Levi Pearson <[email protected]> wrote: > I have an iPad and I really like it, and I have an Android phone that I > have mixed feelings about, but if I were to spec something as a remote > admin tool I'd probably pick a netbook over a tablet. System > administration, unless you are fiddling with a web-based gui, really works > better with a physical keyboard. If the netbooks seem a bit under-specced, > maybe a chromebook? For reading PDFs or browsing the web or youtube or > facebook or whatever, tablet wins hands down, though. :)
I second the netbook suggestion. While tablets are really nice for many tasks, there are several sysadmin tasks that are difficult or impossible on a tablet. * No serial port for programming devices for the first time. * No ethernet port to plug yourself into a specific switch/VLAN/etc. However, tablets both Android and iOS can be very handy though. --lonnie /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
