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Which is recommended

by Oct 3, 2013 1:25AM PDT

I'm looking for tablet that can run Office and remote in via VPN. I am a consultant and am looking to replace lugging around a heavy laptop. I access an EMR for my work as well as work on Office. Everything I can access for my consulting company is web-based. A co-worker just bought the Samsung Ativ tablet and she can remote in but I'm concerned about slowness, etc. I know you can load Office on the Samsung also. I also will watch movies on this. Need USB port and HDMI is nice but not necessary as I don't show movies on the TV. Is the Core processor really too much for what I need for the price? Thanks for any opinions.

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Simple.
by Forum moderator Oct 3, 2013 2:41AM PDT

That's a Windows 8 Pro tablet.
Bob

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Choose a windows tablet
by Oct 16, 2013 4:22PM PDT

I believe whenever the ms office and Internet Explorer is concerned, you have no choice but a windows tablet. Definitely you need a windows 8 tablet, whatever brand.

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The best possible soultion is
by Oct 21, 2013 3:48AM PDT

a windows Surface. The Surface 2 is released tomorrow by Microsoft. My company uses Juno Pulse VPN which is available on both android, IOS and Windows but when I try to connect with Android permission with that OS. I have no problems with my Windows device as I just login using my account.

Your question about speed. Speed should will be determined by your connection. When you remote into a computer the actual processing is done on the computer that u remote into and the your connection just send the screen print to your device.
We once did tested that process as we had a laptop with a 3g card and a client server app where the app server was in my companies building and the user login using the shortcut on the desktop and it took and hour for the applications to run. Then we remoted to a pc inside our firewall and logged in to the app and the app came up immediately.

In the second example only the screen data was sent across the slow connection and thats my it was MUCH faster.

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