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Just made the transition to Windows-10 -- thank the Gods Old and New -- so far everything 'important' is still working. Though I don't like the way the file-manager in FileExplorer handles 'recent folders'. Now I'm feeling a bit ambitious...

Anyone have a recommendation on +/- 10" touch-screen tablets for sketching details-and-such freehand? In addition just be to able to breakaway from the tyranny of my work-station desk, it would be handy to have something to freehand-sketch and doodle details on with a pen-stylus. I do that now on 4x4 graph-paper with a pencil or sign-pen marker, but then they have to be copied or .PDF-scanned -- or laboriously redrafted in Datacad. I'm inclined towards the Samsung Tabs or Pro-notes, but the apps don't seem very robust compared to an I-Pad and their "Paper"-app. I have an irrational innate antipathy towards Apple products, I've never owned one --- ever. But the I-Pad and artists-apps look enticing, and they have some great options for styluses for creative-types. I like the 10-inch-diaginal size for convenience and 'handiness'; and it's in-between a smartphone and a laptop in bulk and weight. And there's a number of interesting apps in that function-category that laptops can't access. I had an older HP laptop PC, and it was far from convenient as a portable resource. Too large, too heavy, too keyboard-centric -- and way too-official for sketching and doodling.

Plus, I'm being heavily leaned-on by a friend/important client to get more "paperless" as I'm drowning in manila file-folders -- and every thing I send his office needs to be .PDF or scanned since he's already 98% paperless. ...And they live-and-die on e-mail and attachment-files.

My sister is giving me an old Sprint Phantom smartphone that I'm going to use just as a WIFI device on my home-office network, but I'd like something larger for sketching and doing "research" on the Web without being tied to my work-station chair. Sometimes a change in "office scenery" helps when you're blocked...a nice "comfy chair" with a view, and one of the cats purring, can get the juices flowing again.

I'm feeling very 1997 this week....

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HP Tower running Windows-10 w/ 23" flatscreen
Datacad 18 (long-time Datacad user since the early 1990s?, I don't even remember how to use Autocad anymore.)
Sketchup-2015 (need to upgrade, yes...)
OpenOffice 4.1 suite and Quickbooks,
Epson WF-7620 11x17" copier/scanner/printer.

Gosh I love Windows XP.

I've got some good registry edits for XP too (somewhere) if you want those!

I use Classic Shell with Windows 10, that makes everything look very similar to Windows 7.

So far it's looking like the Apple Ipad Pro 9.7" may be the way to go, but by the time I buy it and the 'necessary" accessories I'm pushing $1200 to $1500, which was not my intent.

I do sketching and photo mark-ups on my Samsung Android tablet using Autodesk (yes, I know, the evil company) SketchBook. It's actually a pretty cool, easy to use, FREE, program and can be used with a stylus or with fingers. I even have it on my Galaxy S7 and can do sketches on that, too.

You can import photos and then do mark-ups. It allows for exporting of sketches that can be sent out or stored in job files.