lets talk tablets

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My laptop died. :-(
Who

Actually not too sad since it was scrappy and $350 four years ago. I planned on getting another cheap laptop until I read about the Windows tablets coming out. I am intrigued. Its hard to do much research on my phone or Kindle so tell me about tablets. There are so many coming out and the prices aren't listed yet. I hope I can make it a month without my laptop. I can use DH's but its hooked up to the Tv now.

Who is waiting on a new tablet?

[stumpy]

I am not waiting on one but I know my sis is. She doesn't have much need for a laptop anymore and just wants a laptop. Most of the new ones will be out soon. The cost is going to be competitive.
I just might ditch my desktop one of these days!

[thoseareradishes]

We have the google nexus tablet. I like it, it is easy to use and I find myself picking it up a lot. I mostly play games on it, fiddle around with fertility friend, and check the weather or look something up quickly. I also like it to show people pictures. ETA: I use it for google reader a lot too.

I still use my laptop for facebook (which I could easily put on the tablet), forums, and work related things. I think we paid about $200.

[Nonny]

Sept 16, 2012 18:09:01 GMT -5 kooshball said:

Windows tablets are a failure.

I don't think you can declare the Surface a failure when it hasn't even been released yet. Previously tablets running Windows have been made with a myriad of random hardware from any number of companies. But the Surface is Microsoft finally venturing into Apple territory by having full control over the hardware and the software. I think it has a lot of potential.


Full disclosure, I work for MS, and I'm getting one for free "sometime" in the future. I have not seen or used a Surface as of yet, but I am looking forward to getting one, and I would probably be buying one even if I wasn't getting one for free. I say probably because I'm really not on the market for a tablet at the moment, and for me a tablet is really a luxary/splurge.

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Sept 16, 2012 19:38:37 GMT -5 suzubell said:

I have an iPad, and love it, but it doesn't take the place of having a laptop at home.

Exactly this. I adore my iPad but it cannot replace a laptop.

[M]

I wouldn't replace a laptop with a tablet either. I wouldn't even replace my desktop with a laptop but I need a super powerful computer and my laptop gets way too hot with a quad core in it. But to answer your question, yes I am waiting on the windows. We travel a lot and I think a tablet would make working on the road easier as opposed to pulling out a giant laptop...but we'll see how hard it will be to work on a little screen.

We tried one of those tablets with the apps and it sucked so we returned it. Waste of $600 (with keyboard), but last week groupon had a deal on them for $250 with the keyboard so we snatched one just for the hell of it. Good enough for internet browsing.

[lanyac]

If you don't need it to do very much, and you like games/facebook/apps, etc. get the iPad. If you actually need it to do work, I'd go with the Toshiba Thrive.