Educate me about tablet PC's

Jeff B

Jeff B

Thanos was right
Joined
Dec 23, 2006
Location
Lincolnton N.C.
My needs are;

Movies streaming, Translation, (several different languages) email, music, internet is a big thing, pictures.


Must be simple :D

Suggestions?
 
I am in the same boat in the market looking into a tablet. the big thing I have learn is it is a different animal compared to other pc's. Me I am wanting my word and excel capability. So I can do my work and email or flash drive it to other computers. But apparently the tablets are more like a large smart phone with droid type aps and not so much the regular programs you are used to on laptop. Besides that I do not know much else about them but I am learning.
 
I have learned that you can get one with a windows OS. Much more expensive, anybody know the benefits of this other than being more familiar
 
I Plan on getting me one of these to carry with me to work. Not a power house but has all the right things I need. Cost about as much as a high end lap top though. Been using one of there laptops and I love it but its so damn heavy.
 
Stay away from anything with a logo that resembles a half eaten fruit due to limitations.

Droid OS is the best right now.

I use a Motorola Xoom, but my favorite is a Toshiba Thrive. The Asus tablets and pretty nice. The Lonovos are junk.
 
250krawler said:
I Plan on getting me one of these to carry with me to work. Not a power house but has all the right things I need. Cost about as much as a high end lap top though. Been using one of there laptops and I love it but its so damn heavy.
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I have a pansonic toughbook laptop. they are fantastically tough but lack performance. the graphic card and processor is behind the times and bogs down, but if you are not going to use a graphic intense single program at a time in the field it is fantastic. i use maps on a daily bases and GIS and aerials kill those little guys.

So for me I want a tablet that can handle maps. I have read about the Apple propriotary system and to use other programs you have to pay apple for it to be used on their system. or at least that was my understanding.
 
I am fixin to buy an android tablet soon.

I really like the Toshiba Thrive, as it has full size USB and SD ports built in -- no adapter required. But...with some of the new stuff coming, it's already getting dated.

Check out the just-released Asus TF300, and the TF700, due out in June-ish. I'll probably get one of the two.
 
Do these have slots for sd cards? or micro cards? Which would be best for my needs?
 
Thats good to know. I know one other big thing for me is that I want a tablet without having a cell phone contract. thats tough.
 
I just brought a thrive for 289 shipped, 8GB.

Thanks for the help & advice guys.
 
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