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Join Date: Aug 2010
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For those wondering if HL plays nice with Windows 8, I have recently installed it on my Lenovo Yoga 13. Since it isn't a "Windows App" it runs in desktop mode, but I have a shortcut directly to HL on the Modern UI start screen, and it runs just fine.
That said, the teeny-tiny nature of many HL buttons does mean that touch mode on the Windows version of the program is not the easiest thing on this particular device - it lacks a pen/tablet interface, so you are limited in precision to the size of your fingertip. I guess it is a tribute to touchscreen technology that folks like myself with large hands can use the thing at all, but sometimes it takes me an extra poke at the screen to check a box. I am thoroughly enjoying HL on this device in general, it is so much improved over the netbook I was using that it isn't even funny, and this tablet is significantly more gaming-table friendly than my big 17" laptop. I refuse to go the iDevice route, simply because I can't justify a computing device that doesn't allow me to have HL, Combat Manager, and Google Docs open simultaneously. I suppose a MacBook Air would let me do that, but at a much higher price point than this tablet. |
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Join Date: Jul 2010
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As with phones, Android devices will outnumber iOS soon - it is only a matter of time. When you can get Android tablets on sale for $49 it is a much more affordable solution for the price conscious gamer.
It matters little to me since I have both -- my workplace has gifted me with a new ipad along with a macbook pro. But what my Android tablet could do for $4 (splashtop remote desktop purchase running HL from my desktop) cost me $20 plus $17 each subsequent year on the ipad, not to mention lots of other little problems with the app store (only one of a particular type of app, far more free apps on droid cost $ on ipad, having to download things like goodreader just to use dropbox syncing, and I am sure several more to come) Android is already more versatile than Apple. That plus price means the audience will shift in the next 24 months. |
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Join Date: Jun 2013
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Would love to see Hero Lab on the Android
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Join Date: Jun 2008
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As far as fragmentation, usage reports tell the story. 95 percent of IOS users are running the current version of the software as opposed to the multi-colored Pie aspect of Android with users scattered all across from 2.2 to the latest version of 4. Using free apps on Android (and on IOS to a lesser degree) comes with a cost... constant add pushing eating at your data plans. I'll download a free ap to try something out, but if I don't like it enough to purchase the paid version and silence the adds, it goes into the bit bucket. |
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