08-26-2023, 12:33 PM
My quartet uses Boox Max 3 tablets. Had them for more than 3 years. Bought them to run MobileSheets. I initially tried the Android version of MS but the e-ink version works better.
I hadn't used a tablet for sheet music before that but quite a few of the players who've used our Boox tablets are coming from an ipad and it takes them a while to get used to the fraction of a second it takes to load a new page, although I think the newer Boox models are faster than the ones we have. E-ink is much better in bright ambient light than an ipad screen and much easier to look at for long periods if you're a bit tired.
When we first got them I used to make sure I had a paper version of any music we needed just in case something went wrong with a tablet but I haven't done that for a long time now. After hundreds of gigs the only problems we've had so far have been ... user error. I let one run out of battery once and a couple of times I've forgotten to upload a piece we needed.
My gig folders were already printed in black ink so not having colour hasn't been an issue.
I'd had my eye on e-ink tablets for a while but the earlier versions had really slow processors and used to freeze up quite easily and were still expensive. The Boox tablets were the first ones I came across that had decent processor speeds, memory and storage. I imagine there are others now but the Boox are very good.
Guy
I hadn't used a tablet for sheet music before that but quite a few of the players who've used our Boox tablets are coming from an ipad and it takes them a while to get used to the fraction of a second it takes to load a new page, although I think the newer Boox models are faster than the ones we have. E-ink is much better in bright ambient light than an ipad screen and much easier to look at for long periods if you're a bit tired.
When we first got them I used to make sure I had a paper version of any music we needed just in case something went wrong with a tablet but I haven't done that for a long time now. After hundreds of gigs the only problems we've had so far have been ... user error. I let one run out of battery once and a couple of times I've forgotten to upload a piece we needed.
My gig folders were already printed in black ink so not having colour hasn't been an issue.
I'd had my eye on e-ink tablets for a while but the earlier versions had really slow processors and used to freeze up quite easily and were still expensive. The Boox tablets were the first ones I came across that had decent processor speeds, memory and storage. I imagine there are others now but the Boox are very good.
Guy