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I remember having 10 inch netbook. It was okay for a while, but I would never want to go back to 10 inch display on a laptop. It's just horrible to use. 13 inches is ideal for me =)
I've got this little tablet...you know how so many people turn an iPad into a crappy laptop by adding a keyboard cover to it? Well Lenovo turned a laptop into a crappy iPad by making the hinge a floppy skin flap with a magnetic pogo pin connector. I intended it as a little computer I can use in the wood shop, I wanted something fanless and preferably with a removable keyboard so it wouldn't be destroyed by sawdust that can run FreeCAD natively.
I'm not sure Linux is ready for tablets. FreeCAD is not ready for tablets or laptops, holy fuck it's unusable without a 5 button mouse and a spaceball. I may have to distro hop a little on the thing because it likes to wake up with the keyboard attached, not recognize the keyboard, and stay permanently in portrait mode. So wake up the computer, rip the keyboard off, wait a second, reattach.
It's kind of fuckpuke, tbh.
10 inch screen size isn't a problem though. For a general laptop I'd want to go 13 inches but for something I'm mostly going to use as a tablet and then occasionally as a laptop 10 will do.
The library near me has a bunch of 3D printers people can rent time on, or maybe it's based on filament used I'm not sure I've never actually used them.
At one point they had some surface tablets connected up to them so people could review their 3D prints or something, (again not my area of expertise), but apparently it was enough of an issue they eventually got rid of them and just replaced them with some desktops. It seems that the 3D design software just isn't built for touch screen primary interfaces. They'll work up to a point but then you'll come up against something that you have to use a mouse and keyboard for and be stuck, so then you have to go get a mouse and keyboard.
It sounds like the idea is to bring in your ready to print files and load them up and just use the Surface to review and send it to the printer via the slicer? A surface would be fine for that, especially since they support keyboards and mice.