Knowing Google, theyβll just cancel it altogether.
this post was submitted on 02 Jan 2024
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I would REALLY like to buy one of these. But I just can't justify buying anything with a 60hz display in 2024.
I'm legitimately asking. Why does that matter? What do you do with a tablet where it makes a tangible difference?
Scrolling any list.
If nothing else, UI flow feels a lot better. Difference, even in a smartphone while using menus or playing games, is significant. It can actually help reduce screen fatigue or dizziness a lot on games or videos with quick and drastic camera movements.
However, in most cases, for a lot of people who were playing games even 10 years ago, it is a quality of life improvement akin to switching to a more comfortable chair, mouse or keyboard.
Once you get used to higher refresh rates, lower ones look stuttery.
Sometimes when I go back to a lower refresh rate display, I even get some visual discomfort for a little while until I readjust.
For me going to 90 or 120Hz is well worth the small hit to battery life.
It's just an eye comfort thing. Higher refresh rate looks better, no matter what you're doing.
It's not that I need it, it's that if I'm dropping $500+ on a toy, how can it NOT have it when all my other devices do?
That 120hz life is just too good
I wouldn't, and I did buy one. The display is fine for what amounts to a sub 12" tablet. The speaker should have been the same one on the Nest Hub max, and it should do in hub mode the same things the Nest Hub Max does. Also, multi user/account support shouldn't be broken, and they shouldn't have changed the home app on it to be like it is on phones.
I would personally say that if you want to do work on a tablet, the pixel tablet isn't good for you. But I own one, and I personally like it. Personally switched from an iPad mini 6th generation. Wish there was more drawing apps and better support them with USI.
It's not like one of Samsung's higher end tablets, but it's also not like one of their cheap budget ones either that barely run the software given to them. It's pretty much like the pixel phone and falls into the category of "good enough/acceptable". Yeah there's definitely better hardware out there, but it's the software that is what makes it a decent tablet. A higher end model with stuff like a better refresh rate would be nice, but it's not a requirement for me personally.
It's a bit gimmicky, but I do like the hub mode of the tablet that's engaged through the dock. It's nice that the tablet can do something at all times even when it's just changing.
My only real complaints about the tablet are the poor keyboard and mouse support (though that's more of a problem on app developers), the fact the dock doesn't do much. And I've also noticed quite a few problems using other launchers with it (probably because the taskbar is very heavily tied to the pixel launcher).
@ijeff You can still get any aftermarket Bluetooth keyboard and mouse and get them working with the tablet, I guess. Back in college, I used to have a Lenovo Yoga Tab 8, coupled with such a keyboard and mouse. There are also keyboards with trackpads included, so you have less stuff to carry around. Unless Google axed support for something along the Android route, you now also have the advantage of split screen support.
I really want a couple of these cheap. The beauty of them is that they're not supposed to be power houses. That said, hopefully they also do a pro version with bumped up stats.
I'd have considered it if it had an amoled display. Bought myself a used Galaxy S5e instead.