Don't know if it's unique to Lenovo or part of Android in general, but these tablets do support the windowing feature. It's Android 13.
The whole experience would have been great, except for one thing which made it unusable for my purposes. Android has that clipboard editor popup that can't be disabled. When using Emacs within Termux, every time I hit ctrl-k, I got that damn popup which blocked a significant amount of the screen for ~10 seconds.
So-called Productivity Mode is a Lenovo thing and I agree it's actually decent. I know that Android has some windowing support built-in but it's basically unusable (hence why this announcement is good news).
Part of my reason for being cheap is that I've seen more than one tablet get destroyed, while playing music. One got blown over by the wind at an outdoor gig, the other somehow got knocked around in my instrument case and the screen cracked in half.
I'm a jazz bassist, so I'm mostly reading chord symbols when not just playing from memory. Having the sheets on stage lets me consult rehearsal markings and jog my memory as needed. Sometimes it stays in my bag, or at the edge of the stage, until I need it.
The one band I play in that has more complicated charts is entirely paper based, and will be for the foreseeable future. My kids both play classical, and they have 13" iPads -- there's pretty much no avoiding it nowadays. But after shelling out for them, I decided that I didn't need that much technology.
I don’t understand the downvotes. I am always baffled when statements are downvoted.
Though admittedly split screen is the most useful of those
Well, that all depends on what you were expecting. It works about as well as I figured it would (including the pre-installed bloatware), so in my eyes, it’s performant.
But DeX is only available on the highest performing devices in the Galaxy lineup :)
I don't have any performance complaints on my S23 with Snapdragon chip. But they are too frugal with memory. Tabs and apps often have to reload in DeX.
We carry these things with us everywhere and they are more than capable (hardware wise) for what 99% of time spent on desktops/laptops can do, especially in the corporate world. The limitation is the form factor. I'm really just floored that there hasn't been a bigger push to turn our smartphones into our computers.