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I bought a 2007 Lenovo ThinkPad T61 with dual 2.0 core 2 CPU, 4Gb RAM from eBay and a new solid state disk (128Gb Samsung 840 pro) for approximately the same price as a HP Slate if that's any recommendation...
Goes like lightning and has those old fashioned button things. Plus you can "beat an elephant to death with it without it breaking" to quote my good friend.
We had a couple of nexus tablets in the office for testing and they were broken within a week. Same with ipads.
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I didn't buy one, but there are people from the group involved with them that sit near me.
I've played with them fairly extensively. While it is nothing to write home about in terms of amazingness (would any tablet that price be?), it seems to be a pretty good tablet. The Nexus 7 is better, but I don't know if it is 30-40$ better (for my use that is). I'd use mine for kids on trips and being able to stick in external memory would be useful for that.
For the price it is a pretty good little unit.
TW
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I've been toying with getting a Nexus 7
Bruce, I would be careful to take the infrastructure behind the Nexus devices into account in any comparative evaluation. The N7 is at its best if you are heavily invested in the Googleverse, that is, if you are using several of the following:
- Gmail
- Google Calendar
- Google Contacts
- Google Docs / Drive
- Google Plus
- Google Play store for music or movies
Although the N7 offers amazing bang for the buck (just wait a week and see what's announced at Google io) and a very capable platform for calculator simulators like Go41cx, it really comes into its own if you store a lot of your life information in Google's cloud. At that point, the N7 (especially with 3G or better) or similar Nexus devices will take over organizing your life for you, via the Google Now app. ;)
I blogged about this at http://securitasdato.blogspot.com.au/2012/10/do-androids-dream.html.
Best,
--- Les
[http://www.lesbell.com.au]