My iWork 10 Ultimate Setup and Experience (including Docking Station and Stylus)

[Sebastian]

I got my iWork Ultimate from Gearbest today after nearly three Weeks of delivery. Just a few words:

At first, I was a little bit surprised because it felt small in my Hands. But the reason was, that I had the Surface 4 Pro a couple of days at home. After a few minutes, I was absolutly fine with it. I also had a few iPads in the past, but I never had a real usage for them. So i’m happy with a Windows Tablet, because I can use almost any App out there. I also ordered the Pen because I thought that would be cool for taking notes or working with PDFs.

Before I forgot, packaging was fine, absolutly no worries. The Tablet looks great and I’m impressed what I’ve got for that Money.

Until Apple is releasing a new Macbook Pro, this has to be my writing machine for the next Weeks (or months?!). The good thing is, I can’t bring work to my home, because I have no powerful machine. But the bad thing is, I can’t do any RAW work or other stuff I like.

If the Tablet is working in the next couple of months like right now, I will be very happy.

By the way, here is a Picture from my Setup. I took a Photograph because nobody should think i’m just only talking. I’m using the Tablet with a USB 3.0 Docking Station from Targus. It is working well after I connected the Tablet to the power supply. Without, it won’t recognise the USB-Hub or only a few minutes.

Video with Handwriting:

 

 

 

 

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[Anonymous]

Interesting, can you link the hub? I’m looking for something similiar

[Sebastian]

Sure:

http://www.targus.com/uk/usb-3_0-dual-video-docking-station-acp70eu

But they all should work, because of the same Chip used from Displaylink.

Don’t pay more as 50 Euros for something like that. There are always offers.

 

 

 

[Joe Wallace]

What stylus did you get? The one in the picture looks different than the one shown on gearbest.

[dlink377]

DOes the tablet even has the power to reroute the display to USB port? Do you experience any lag when moving your cursor or watching 60fps video on the second monitor?

[Sebastian]

Joe Wallace wrote:

What stylus did you get? The one in the picture looks different than the one shown on gearbest.

 

Thats right, because the Gearbest one is only a passive Stylus which is not the Pen specifically for that tablet. You have to buy one from Geekbuying.

http://www.geekbuying.com/item/Original-Cube-CEP02-Active-Stylus-Pen-for-Cube-iWork10-Flagship-Tablet—Black-364168.html

[Sebastian]

dlink377 wrote:

DOes the tablet even has the power to reroute the display to USB port? Do you experience any lag when moving your cursor or watching 60fps video on the second monitor?

The Tablet is charging with Micro USB 2.0 (for the moment 2.1 A but maybe later 2.4 A), because the 3.0 here can’t be used for charging. The Docking Station is powered seperately. It will only work if the Tablet is connected to a charger.

Video test in the next couple of days. No Mouselag and i didn’t assumed that because it’s USB 3.

[dlink377]

Sebastian wrote:

The Tablet is charging with Micro USB 2.0 (for the moment 2.1 A but maybe later 2.4 A), because the 3.0 here can’t be used for charging. The Docking Station is powered seperately. It will only work if the Tablet is connected to a charger. Video test in the next couple of days. No Mouselag and i didn’t assumed that because it’s USB 3.

I am just thinking of the overhead of transmitting display using USB, since it is relatively weak CPU.

Too bad all of the chinese tablet I bought have a broken USB 3.0 implementation, probably I have a bad luck buying those cheap tablet.

Why don’t just buy a PC? A very small ITX i3-6100 skylake PC with PicoPSU probably will cost $300+, and have so much better performance than this tablet. Or buy those chinese i5-5200u fanless PCs for ~$200 if fanless and lower power consumption is a must. I think using tablet as temporary solution is a good enough, but for long run having a dedicated PC is better if you have extra spare money :).

And, I am also looking forward for the new MacBook Pro :). Those rumors about 4x USB-C and OLED touch bar is peaking my interest level.

[Sebastian]

dlink377 wrote:

Sebastian wrote:

The Tablet is charging with Micro USB 2.0 (for the moment 2.1 A but maybe later 2.4 A), because the 3.0 here can’t be used for charging. The Docking Station is powered seperately. It will only work if the Tablet is connected to a charger. Video test in the next couple of days. No Mouselag and i didn’t assumed that because it’s USB 3.

I am just thinking of the overhead of transmitting display using USB, since it is relatively weak CPU. Too bad all of the chinese tablet I bought have a broken USB 3.0 implementation, probably I have a bad luck buying those cheap tablet. Why don’t just buy a PC? A very small ITX i3-6100 skylake PC with PicoPSU probably will cost $300+, and have so much better performance than this tablet. Or buy those chinese i5-5200u fanless PCs for ~$200 if fanless and lower power consumption is a must. I think using tablet as temporary solution is a good enough, but for long run having a dedicated PC is better if you have extra spare money :). And, I am also looking forward for the new MacBook Pro :). Those rumors about 4x USB-C and OLED touch bar is peaking my interest level.

 

I didn’t take a look into the task manager, but as I know it shouldn’t be more as 30% which sounds a lot, but I only do light tasks like web browsing or just writing. I don’t need a stationary pc, I also have a Intel Compute Stick at home and this tablet here is faster which is great. The iWork will be my to go device and hopefully a good complement to my future laptop. I really thought a lot about it, if it does make sense to buy a cheap chinese tablet.

[Sebastian]

I updated my thread with a Video.

[dlink377]

Sebastian wrote:

I updated my thread with a Video.

Great video!

I see your experience with the pen is quite good, as my experience is relatively bad.

From what I see, the pen will work nicely if you put a bit pressure and write more slowly, just like your video. It seems I am a bit fast writer, so the tablet cannot catch up with my writing speed (my Samsung tablet does catch up without problem, it is a Wacom hardware inside).

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