[George Salt]

You can only charge via the type c port.  The cable does need to be pushed in far enough to click.  If you’ve damaged the socket (rather than the cable – the supplied cable is best poor, I broke the cable within 10 mins!) then the socket may have been pushed back into the case and the cable can’t connect fully.

 

[George Salt]

I posted my serial# in another thread, and my type C dual boot is L.

I suspect it is a structured code and does have meaning, we just need a much larger sample size to determine what it means.  <!–more–>

[George Salt]

Are you sure about L=single and D=dual boot?

[George Salt]

Solved the update error, repeated restarts cleared other updates that needed to be implemented first.

 

 

[George Salt]

Update keeps failing for me with,
<p style=”padding-left: 30px;”>Feature update to Windows 10, version 1607 – Error 0x80d02005</p>

[George Salt]

Hans Sprungfeld wrote:

Just do a damn read/write benchmark and you will get the results responding to a 1066MHz RAM instead of 1600MHz.

I gave the results for both apps because I honestly don’t care about the finer details – you wanted one, the other guy preferred the other.  I can’t see myself worrying  all that much over the benchmark score for a Chinese tablet.

Does the Type-C run the software I want it to run? – Yes (Lightroom CC, Sigma PhotoPro 6).

Am I happy with it so far? – Yes, and if in a couple of months I’m still happy or if I’ve changed my mind I’ll come back and say.

To be honest, the one thing that made me choose the iWork10 probably doesn’t even rate in your evaluation – it’s one if very, very few models that runs a 64-bit OS out-of-the-box.  Real world usage, not some hypothetical benchmark.

 

And FFS chill.

[George Salt]

Screenshots later, but in the mean time CPU-Z is telling me..

Memory – DDR, 4020 MBytes, DRAM freq 800 MHz

 

HWinIFO does indeed give different values..

Memory – 4020 MB, Clock 533.3 MHz

 

They both agree on the latency, 8-10-11-23

 

My pattern spotting sense is noting that 1600/2=800, and 1600/3=533.3, and I know nothing about the validity of either programe to say anything about the significance of this coincidence.

 

 

edit:  and for completeness the serial/model number printed on the reverse of the device is i15TCL64GB16204210396 – this looks suspiciously like a structured product code up until perhaps the last seven digits.

[George Salt]

The supplied cable is shit – mine fell apart pretty much straight out of the box.  Changing charger and not changing the cable limits your experimentation to one variable that you’re keeping constant.

<span style=”line-height: 1.5;”>Try a decent cable and a decent charger, then report back with your findings.</span>

[George Salt]

I’ve directly connected two different cameras using the standard USB leads that came with the cameras (Fuji X- E2, Sigma DP2 Merrill) without OTG and transferred files to the iWork10 without problem.

For on-the-road photo editing (for a travelog/blog, etc.) the iWork10 is surprisingly capable – it will process raw files in Lightroom CC and Sigma Pro Photo with acceptable speed just as long as you’re not planning on processing the entire memory card in one batch.  A new cardreader arrived today (my previous one was ancient, USB 1) and I’ll be testing that over the next week – easier than bringing both sets of leads on trips (typical for camera manufacturers they’re both different..) and more useful.

If you want to transfer a chunk of data/files between laptop and iWork10, the easiest way is a via the cloud.  Set-up a “iwork10 shared” folder on GoogleDrive and locally synch this folder on the iWork10 (you’ll need to install the app).  Open the same folder on your laptop and paste in the files you want to transfer.  GoogleDrive will synch them across automatically as long as both have an internet connection.

[George Salt]

Not pushing it in far enough caught me as well.. 😉

As did catching the cable at an angle and the plug is now loose in the housing – shit cable.  I’ve switched to an Anker multi-USB charger with a type-c port and an Anker type-c to type-c cable for charging.  Much better now.  I generally switch from the OEM bits in the box to Anker replacements for this type of thing.

[George Salt]

If it is the type-c (it sounds like it might be from your last reply, but you’re not clear on this) the cable provided is a bit shit.  It was the first type-c device I’ve used and I found the cable need to push in further than I thought.  There’s then a blue light at the top-left of the screen to confirm charging.

 

[George Salt]

Which version of the iWork10 have you bought? – if it’s the type-c version this only charges through the type-c port, it’s caught a few people out.  I don’t know if the vanilla version has similar preferences for one port over another.

[George Salt]

+1 for avoiding the cheap USB C cables, and the one that comes with the tablet is very poor quality.

The touchpad gesture problems can be solved by the AutoHotKey fix described in a recent thread, once the pinch-zoom and swipe-in gestures are disabled browsing is a far more pleasant experience.

[George Salt]

Thanks for the link, that works a treat! 😀

[George Salt]

In case this is of relevance to anyone else, I’ve now tested the following photo editing software on the type C..

• Adobe Lightroom CC (with Fuji .raf raw file)
• Sigma Photo Professional 6 (with DP2 Merrill raw file)

and both run and are very usable, although noticeably slower than on a more conventional PC.  The performance with SPP6 on the Foveon file was a very pleasant surprise.Given the reputation this software has as slow, tedious and fickle on even the most powerful systems it worked surprisingly well – not really that much slower than I’ve experienced with an i5 desktop or i7 laptop with significantly more RAM then the iWork 10.

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