Tablet for Lightroom (Surface or Something Else?)

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My plan now is to loose my laptop as I have a "proper" PC for my editing needs (and the Mrs has already got her hooves on it) I'm looking for something smaller and lighter to do a quick cull and back up of my pictures.
My initial idea was to have something like an android or windows tablet to do the first cull and back up to another card/drive/storage to cover me in case the card dies or I kill it. I have a copy of light room mobile on my phone but I find it much better to use a larger screen, 8 to 10inches to view any pictures and make any culling easier.
I don't mind too much using an android version but then I got looking a having a low-ish power windows tablet with a slightly higher drive spec. The only one that sprung to mind was a Microsoft surface...

Are these any other recommendations for a windows tablet?
 
I use one on a daily basis, Surface Pro 3 i5/8GB/256SSD. It is good, but don't underestimate the cost and power required. Granted I'm pushing mine with external 4K screen as well but I am hitting performance limits. It is absolutely fine, but I think if you want that format I'd recommend the SP4 i7 with the Intel Iris graphics card.
 
Its not for really pushing anything too much editing wise, my train of thinking was if I use windows/lightroom I can put together a catalog together and as one folder move it to the main PC

But then again I had an idea if I could use a chromebook to view n delete the files & back up to an additional drive. That's if there any apps that can read the files
 
True, but you still need to render the files to see them. So any delays to that with raw files etc can get annoying. But depends on how you cull. For me, I am in library view, full screen, use reject, flag stars to cull. So moving between images quickly is rather important.
 
Kinda same way for me to, something else to think about re:rendering. Cheers
 
well I went in a different direction and got a windows tablet. hp 2 in 1. Just need a lightweight ssd usb drive.
 
Out of curiosity JP (@dejongj ) what's it like at rendering 8mb JPEGs?

Reason I ask is that I'm looking at a way of reviewing whilst I'm away. At the moment I shoot raw to CF and JPEG to an Eyefi card which syncs with the Eyefi mobi app either on my phone or iPad, which I then use either that or Google photos to review. The downside is that I then have to go through selection again with the Raw files. I was thinking that with a Surface Pro I could review and rate the JPEGs straight into Lightroom and then sync the raw/JPEG catalogue back home (Lightroom Mobile Only seems to sync with the cameraroll)
 
I'll link my Google photos account to light room and take a look for you. Will get back tomorrow.
 
I have a Dell Venue Pro 11 that I use for my office work - I use it occasionally for editing on the move (family photos - I wouldn't use it for the volume of paid work) and it works fine. Rendering is slower than my MBP (obviously) but not unbearable. Assuming benchmarks are at least in some way indicative of performance, a Surface Pro 4 looks like it would handle Lightroom as well as any laptop virtually. Or really go for it with a Surface Book and I imagine you'd find no faults at all other than the price!
 
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