We are in the process of evaluating new laptops or tablets for next year for both Student and Teacher use. I have had one administrator express a desire to at least look at the Hybrid Laptop/Tablet type systems that several companies are selling at this point. We are normally an HP shop but price ultimately dictates what we buy and I am always open to other devices. I don't know if anyone has tried these or not. If so would you be willing to share what you have learned? My guess is this might go along the lines of a Surface Pro type deployment as well.
1. Does this type of device fall under the ZCM type deployment or will this be considered a Mobile type device and ZMM is a more suitable type of service? (I am aware that at this point ZCM only support 8 and not really a 8.1 setup)
2. If you did deploy this in a tablet format how was the performance? Any specific specs I should keep in mind when looking at the solutions?
3. Which of the vendors did you like or dislike when dealing with the Hybrid or Tablet device?
I am trying to direct the district and its staff away from a device that is not going to support at least the Pro version of the OS. At this stage of MS's deployment of Windows I would really like to have another year to figure out a few more software items before a full deployment. I have a few teachers that are getting to retirement age and Windows 7 was a rough move, I am not looking forward to the Windows 8/8.1 leap with them so getting some of this solved before that time would be extremely helpful.
Thanks for any insight on this topic.
Richard
1. Does this type of device fall under the ZCM type deployment or will this be considered a Mobile type device and ZMM is a more suitable type of service? (I am aware that at this point ZCM only support 8 and not really a 8.1 setup)
2. If you did deploy this in a tablet format how was the performance? Any specific specs I should keep in mind when looking at the solutions?
3. Which of the vendors did you like or dislike when dealing with the Hybrid or Tablet device?
I am trying to direct the district and its staff away from a device that is not going to support at least the Pro version of the OS. At this stage of MS's deployment of Windows I would really like to have another year to figure out a few more software items before a full deployment. I have a few teachers that are getting to retirement age and Windows 7 was a rough move, I am not looking forward to the Windows 8/8.1 leap with them so getting some of this solved before that time would be extremely helpful.
Thanks for any insight on this topic.
Richard