Can the Tab S7 be a proper Laptop replacement? - Samsung Galaxy Tab S7 / S7 Plus Questions & Answer

Hi all, long time since I posted on XDA.
Was planning to buy the Tab S7 as a replacement of my old laptop. I'm a lawyer so most of my work on my laptop revolves around MS Office apps, lots of research using Chrome and reading/creating PDF documents.
Would the Tab be a proper replacement for my laptop in this use case? Planning to buy a third party keyboard and mouse and additional nibs for the S-Pen for maintaining full functionality. Thanks!

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Aayushya said:
Hi all, long time since I posted on XDA.
Was planning to buy the Tab S7 as a replacement of my old laptop. I'm a lawyer so most of my work on my laptop revolves around MS Office apps, lots of research using Chrome and reading/creating PDF documents.
Would the Tab be a proper replacement for my laptop in this use case? Planning to buy a third party keyboard and mouse and additional nibs for the S-Pen for maintaining full functionality. Thanks!
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No.

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bs3pro said:
No.
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Might I ask why?

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depends what you do with your laptop. I find the 10-11 inch tablets too small for multiwindow, the Tab s7+ is close to being usable with multiwindow. Also the keyboard on the smaller tabs is hard to use, and again the s7+ keyboard is borderline and far too expensive. I do find myself reaching for my laptop a lot less with the s7+ that I did with any of my other tablets, but at least for me it's still missing some things I need my laptop for and Remote Desktop to Windows is still not great. I'm an engineer so coding tools are still hard to come by on android(and IOS). I also use Resolve video editing which it nice on my 4k 15.6 in i7. Not really doable on android yet.

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It absolutely can be used as a laptop replacement. I use it that way. Most of the stuff I do can be done using Android versions of apps (EG: Word, Excel) either in native mode or DeX. For stuff that needs Windows I remote in to a Lenovo Tiny I have set up at home where I get full access to Windows for heavy duty productivity (EG: complex spreadsheets, intricate web apps).
The S7+ keyboard is great with little compromise and I use s Bluetooth mouse because I'm faster with it than a track pad. Using the Tab S7+ as a laptop replacement also provides the bonus of having a great media tablet for media consumption. Mine's 5G so I have anywhere access too.
If all you're doing is PC intensive stuff than you're better off with a real laptop. If you're looking for a hybrid productivity and media device the S7+ is great. I've used Galaxy Tabs this way since the NotePRO 12. The difference now is that the SoC, RAM, display and app quality make the productivity experience so much tighter.
Here's mine running Windows via RDP.
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Kinda depends on what you're doing with it. MS Office works fine as long as you don't mind paying the monthly fee. I actually prefer the tablet for pdfs because you can write on them to sign and edit. Browsing on chrome works fine (as you would expect). Samsung DEX is great, but it has a few quirks. Nothing major. I'd get the samsung keyboard case though. It attaches quickly and the keyboard just works. The bluetooth keyboards sometimes run out of battery and can take a few seconds to connect each time. The downsides to the samsung keyboard are that it isn't back-lit and it isn't cheap. The backlit part has never been an issue for me because the tablet screen provides plenty of illumination at night.