The Galaxy Note Tablet (2014 edition) is the tablet that was designed for me.

As soon as I saw it, I knew.  I knew I had to have one.  I cannot afford, but I fucking want it.

The new Galaxy Note tablet is a thing of magnificent beauty.  It does all of the things that the Note 3 does, but it is a tablet.  Cataloging and saving videos, pictures and notes into folders for things, multiple apps on the screen with windows, geo-tagging, cross-device cloud storage and file sorting, notes on the go, NFC-enabled actions.  OMG!  I have been waiting for a big boy tablet from Android for a long time and this is finally it.  The size, resolution and impressive spec sheet all lend themselves to how awesome this device will be.

Sometimes we freak out about the next big thing in mobile and forget that tablets are just as mobile.  You can take them anywhere and everywhere.  The iPad has long sat among the top as the kind of the tablet.  It is flexible and works well.  I admire how well Apple has managed to take advantage of it's position as king of the hill for tablets.  The day is coming, though, when Android is going to show up and bring something to the party that makes you re-think mobile all over again.  The Nexus 7 has shaken up quite a few things, but for people like me... it isn't big enough.  I need something big.  I need something that feel nice and expensive and like some real R&D went into it.  This is that tab.

Between specs and features I just can't get over how awesome this tablet is.  I am not a fan of Touchwiz or all of the gimmicks, but they find a very nice niche here.  Taking notes on a tablet makes sense.  Watching videos and and combining notes and videos actually makes sense here.  Using that split screen to work on two apps at once is useful in this form factor.  So many things come together so perfectly.  It is hard to see this tablet doing great things, but I think that if enough people tried it... they'd love it.  I assume the price tag is going to be rather hefty.  Part of what made the Nexus 7 so successful is the availability of the device.  This device will carry a price that is much closer to what Apple would charge, and it should, but that doesn't mean it will land it in a lot of hands.

I have been considering for some time getting a nice, big tablet and a Chromebook as a laptop.  Something I can put down and use as a real laptop that does things specific to my productivity, but without all of the weight and load times of a typical laptop.  Then I could use a tablet for entertainment.  Watching videos, playing games, goofing off.  It makes sense.  I could ditch a traditional laptop and use both of these items, pay about the same amount and get a much higher return.  Sure, a traditional laptop might stay more useful for a longer period of time, but Moore's Law never stops.  By the time that 18-36 month mark is upon me, I'll be ready to dive into the next things.

I want a Note tablet.  Bad.