Tablets--preferences?

[oshunluvr]

Rofl

[Snowhog]

I run two laptops with Linux. At work I use Windows Vista Enterprise. I had a Blackberry smartphone. I own an Apple iPad Air and an iPhone 5s. I am not an OS xenaphobe, espousing only one and abhoring all others. I use and purchase what "I" want for "my own" reasons. I do not feel I am "right" and others are "wrong".

Get over this people. To each their own. Nothing more; nothing less.

[SteveRiley]

except with ipod nobody came even close in producing an easy to use quality product... think microsoft Zune lol.. fail

So, um, I owned a Zune HD. I was still working for Microsoft then, and the price at the employee store was a steal. The Zune UI was vastly superior to anything I've seen an any music player before or since, and the device itself was very rugged. Zune failed not becsue of this but for the same reasons that Windows Phone continues to fail: a lack of understanding how to correctly market the device and find prospective buyers.

[bonkers]

I used to like apple ipad tablets till I realized they become deprecated ie: the apps (can't keep updating them as they become next gen only very fast) But I have no idea what other tablet would be a good choice.

[Qqmike]

Mu current thinking is,

Nexus 9 review ... Techradar did produce a final review, and it is much improved with details and worth reading, including comparison to competition. I suspect this review, on balance, will be fairly typical of what one will read elsewhere.

Nexus 9 review
Google drops the low price to enter the high-end tablet market
http://www.techradar.com/us....Content

Considering especially price (high), then on-board storage (low), lack of expandability and RAM constraints (in addition to other negatives), I suspect the Nexus 9 isn't going to fly as high as Google had expected it to.

Again the iPad Air 2 and Samsung's Tab S come out smelling very good, the iPad Air 2 setting the standards for the most part. Google's Material Design in its Lollipop OS looks good and promising (at some point, other Android systems will get the Lollipop upgrade).

Android 5.0 Lollipop
http://www.techradar.com/reviews....w

Material Design
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Material_design

Samsung Tab S looking pretty good, but not low-end ($400++).

[claydoh]

Me, I am waiting for those dirt cheap generic tablets to get screens with a decent resolution and enough ram to actually be usable. I can't afford the ones I want, even used or refurbs, and I can't justify getting one, no matter how much I drool. Though the holiday season has brought some of these cheapies to under 50 dollars

[NickStone]

If your thinking of upgrading to Android 5 I'd read this if I were you.

[Qqmike]

@Nickstone, thanks for that link. I had expected it! I'm sure the Tab S won't jump into Lollipop just yet. I don't think reviewers have fully tested it with 'Real Apps' on the Nexus 9.

@claydoh, I was hoping for something like the Nexus 7 done in 8", at the lower-positioned Google pricing rather than the Nexus 9 that comes in $o high.

[claydoh]

How about this beastie, lol
http://www.neweggflash.com/Product/N...WP_30_11192014
Intel Dual Core, CloverTrail+Z2520, bluetooth....60 bucks shipped
and ......apparently zero rooting/rom options, unless this is already rooted, some of this brand seem to be that way.

[SteveRiley]

I wouldn't consider 1024 x 600 to be anything like a decent resolution on a 7" screen.

[claydoh]

I wouldn't consider 1024 x 600 to be anything like a decent resolution on a 7" screen.

Not even close. Then there is the Intel Clover Trail

60 dollahs, tho!

[Feathers McGraw]

Have you considered repairing a broken tablet? Something like a screen replacement...

[claydoh]

I am trying to avoid looking at them at all, lol!
I have to scrape the money together for my hopeful trip to Oz this spring

[NickStone]

I just did a search on Amazon UK, any of these take your fancy?

http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_...d+%2Caps%2C349

[claydoh]

I think I found the perfect headache maker

Yeah, I plan to live dangerously.
HERE is a grand cheep tablet to hack on

This page shows a boot loader of some sort.... something to hack on

I am seriously considering wasting a christmas gift card on this

They are not selling out like most Newegg shellshocker deals do. Hell that 16 gb thing should be called a 3gb thing after Windows is factored in