Having used the Surface Pro X for a while now it got me thinking. Compared with my iPad (10th generation) and Galaxy Tab 9 FE it is quite a bit more heavy. While I use it daily it isn’t exactly optimal for what I like to call “light computing”. By that I mean you run of to a coffee shop, deal with some e-mails, check out Amazon or Temu orders, maybe some Zoom with a friend or two. Basically you don’t want to carry a whole bag with you, just a sling, so mostly it ends up being my Android or iPad, depending on which one holds the biggest charge at departure. And then I thought, why isn’t there any WOA tablet that competes with that segment of the market?

With the Snapdragon + it should be feasible to produce a nice thin tablet on par with the above mentioned. I look at the 512 GB card in SPX and think that doesn’t take up any space, some RAM with that on a motherboard and a decent battery and screen and we are good to go. There are nor foldable keyboards that include a trackpad. So why would a WOA device be needed when the iPad/Android device fill the needs?

Well, sometimes, why just relaxing some idea seeps into my mind and I want to get to work on it immediately lest I forget it later. If I had a Microsoft 365 subscription it probably wouldn’t matter, but I’m one of those stick in the mud who refuses to subscribe for software that I already paid for. Hence, the idea won’t be executed and end up on the heap of fading memories. Now, if that had been a WOA tablet running Win 11 I could just open any related document, maybe do some Excel calculations or enter a few slides in PowerPoint. And that is why it surprises me that no OME has releases a 10 - 11 inch WOA tablet.