Best tablet for RDP work?

[PowerYoga]

Hi Guys,

I'm trying to get my dad a present for christmas. He's been wanting to get a tablet where he can read books (he's chinese so need asian language support for books!) and also RDP into work in case the server or computer has some problems. He has some eyesight issues where he can't see too well in the dark, but he's played around a bit with an ipad and has no problems with it.

With his RDP, he actually has to get into a web interface (active X plugin) to start up something to RDP in. The company uses windows server 2008 for small business if anybody is familiar with that facet of remote desktop. I don't know if any tablets have a plugin that would allow him to do this.

Now my issue is what I should get him that would satisfy these criteria? The two that I looked at are the ee pad transformer and ee pad slate. The slate is more of a computer than a tablet but it's also a bit heavier and less wieldy. (not to mention expensive).

any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

 

[quest55720]

I don't know how good of RDP support android or IOS have. If they don't have good support might want to look at the msi windpad 110w. You would sacrifice battery life and it is heavier and W7 is not very good with a tablet. The good news is many people have had great success with the W8 developer version on that tablet. If you search my post history one has a link to a review of the MSI windpad with W8 on it.

 

[Dulanic]

Android has a large amount of apps to do RDP, unsure for iOS but I am sure there are some there too.

http://slodive.com/freebies/android-remote-desktop-apps/

I believe the transformer would be capabable of doing anything you mention. My touchpad /w CM7 has been more than capable of remoting into my windows server.

 

[Munky]

IOS/Android RDP support basically boils down to whether the tablet has an "app for that," something that W7 or W8 is capable of out of the box.

 

[zerogear]

Both work fine, there is Wyse PocketCloud for both iOS and Android
Remote Desktop Client for Android

There is also another pretty good one for iOS, but don't recall what

 

[vshah]

i would appreciate the extra resolution of an android tablet vs the ipad2 if remote desktop was a big use case.

it can get annoying to have to zoom in and out non-stop.

 

[poofyhairguy]

Android is a little better because you can use a mouse.

 

[PowerYoga]

Thanks for the feedback. My only point of concern is that the "RDP" session is not a true RDP session, but it has to tunnel through some windows explorer portal that uses activeX. Can any table browser handle that gracefully?

 

[Aikouka]

Thanks for the feedback. My only point of concern is that the "RDP" session is not a true RDP session, but it has to tunnel through some windows explorer portal that uses activeX. Can any table browser handle that gracefully?

I assume it's similar to what my previous job used where the website setup the RDP connection, but it still used the RDP protocol. Given this weird sort of hand-off, I don't think you're going to find anything that will work except for a Windows-based setup.

 

[vshah]

my work has a similar thing (activex or java applet sets up the RDP connection)

haven't been able to get any of my android devices to hijack that connection. stick with a windows device.

 

[PowerYoga]

ouch. So that doesn't leave me with any tablet options except for the slate?

 

[poofyhairguy]

http://www.amazon.com/Acer-Iconia-W5.../dp/B004SBI2PW