Help Does it HAVE to be an ipad?

[TdC]

aargh!!

 

[Tom]

Another vote for a Nexus 7 from me, I love mine.

As far as storage is concerned I think that 32gb is fine. I have a couple of OTG cables {couple of quid from Amazon) which allow a wide selection of USB devices to be plugged into the tablet. Along with an app called Media Importer you can then add one or two videos at a time, watch and delete.

I've found that my Nexus even has enough power to run my 320gb Buffalo Mini station HDD or I can take the SD card out of my Nikon D300 plug it into a card reader and use the tablet to review my photos instantly.

RB

TIL that USB OTG exists.

 

[Moriath]

TIL that USB OTG exists.

Wow almost a whole sentence in TLA's.

 

[Bodhi]

Check out the Xperia Tablet Z. Sexy as you like, getting rave reviews and it's waterproof, which may come in handy. Also been added to the AOSP so vanilla android should be possible if you want to downgrade.

 

[Tilda]

My family are all into the MS Surfaces.

I have a Surface Pro and *LOVE* it - I have Office with onenote on it, and so take all my lecture notes using the Waacom pen. It does everything I want and more.
My mum has a surface RT (similar but without the waacom stylus) and loves it for a light portable thing, but with full access to office for documents, powerpoint, email, excel etc.

I cannot recommend my Surface Pro enough, and my mum loves her RT.

 

[Edmond]

Is ios7 gonna be on the 2 ?

Yes, announced today. iPhone 4 and later, iPad 2 and later

 

[Moriath]

cool thought they might drop a version like they did with 6

 

[Tom]

Check out the Xperia Tablet Z. Sexy as you like, getting rave reviews and it's waterproof, which may come in handy. Also been added to the AOSP so vanilla android should be possible if you want to downgrade.

I can't fault the Sony, it looks fucking awesome and has great reviews. Plus, look at the weight - tiny.

 

[Wazzerphuk]

My family are all into the MS Surfaces.

I have a Surface Pro and *LOVE* it - I have Office with onenote on it, and so take all my lecture notes using the Waacom pen. It does everything I want and more.
My mum has a surface RT (similar but without the waacom stylus) and loves it for a light portable thing, but with full access to office for documents, powerpoint, email, excel etc.

I cannot recommend my Surface Pro enough, and my mum loves her RT.

But the keyboard is shiiiiiiiiit.

 

[Tilda]

My mum has a touch keyboard, which is likes because shes a one fingered pecker typist.
I have a type keyboard which is lovely and I can comfortably touch type on.

Both beat a touch screen keyboard by a country mile.

 

[TdC]

It's more or less certain that I will buy a Surface Pro, haswell or no. Would you say that getting the type keyboard is manditory?

 

[Scouse]

Both beat a touch screen keyboard by a country mile.

For me that's why laptops > tablets.

Tablets look spanky, are portable etc. But a 'doze laptop still wins for "stuff you can do with it".

 

[Tilda]

Scouse, you've missed the point I think. A laptop trumps an ipad. But nothing I've seen can trump a Surface Pro. No tablet can I touch type on, no laptop can I carry around as easily, or use a waacom pen on.
A windows tablet, ie Surface Pro trumps all in the current market tbh.

I like the type keyboard, the touch keyboard wasn't bad, but it just wasn't as good as a proper mechanical keyboard. If you are always going to be touch typing lots, then I'd get the type one, if not, get the touch.
Before I got the Type I went into John lewis and tried out a type keyboard.
Also, I think the windows store at the moment have an offer where if you buy a Surface you get a free keyboard.

 

[Wazzerphuk]

They come with different keyboards? Didn't know that. Thought they were all the shit flat, non-button ones.

 

[DaGaffer]

For me that's why laptops > tablets.

Tablets look spanky, are portable etc. But a 'doze laptop still wins for "stuff you can do with it".

You're so quaint. Do you have a thatched roof?

 

[Scouse]

You're so quaint. Do you have a thatched roof?

I do like thatched roofs, but no. Does a pond in the garden count?

I've got a nexus 7. Bought it for the missus. Given the choice I'd sit about on my PC any day.

 

[TdC]

No tablet can I touch type on

can't do that with a surface pro either though...you have to buy a thing that makes it possible. effectively turning the surface in to a laptop. tbh I'd have llllloooooovvvveeeed the software keyboard to be good for lots of typing. that would have been awesome, yo.

 

[DaGaffer]

I do really like the Surface Pro, but for the price I wonder if a convertible laptop is a better option; no worse in tablet mode (I don't think) but probably better in laptop mode. I'm thinking of things like the Lenovo Yoga. Techcrunch certainly seem to think so.

 

[TdC]

"No for developers" .... meh

 

[Wazzerphuk]

I do really like the Surface Pro, but for the price I wonder if a convertible laptop is a better option; no worse in tablet mode (I don't think) but probably better in laptop mode. I'm thinking of things like the Lenovo Yoga. Techcrunch certainly seem to think so.

Saw that on the Gadget Show the other day (yeah yeah). It looks really good and got pretty favourable comments. Compared it with the Surface and the TaiChi and it came top IIRC.

 

[TdC]

all these uber CPUs in small gagets...does this mean things like the TaiChi already have Haswell i7's?

 

[dysfunction]

I've got a nexus 7. Bought it for the missus. Given the choice I'd sit about on my PC any day.

Yes because a Nexus 7 is exactly like a Surface Pro.

 

[Embattle]

all these uber CPUs in small gagets...does this mean things like the TaiChi already have Haswell i7's?

TaiChi - http://www.theverge.com/2013/2/13/3977568/asus-taichi-review-11-6-inch

No it doesn't have Haswell processor yet either, probably a few months before you get Haswell appearing in more products.

Haswell Y & U version info - http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013...ls-low-power-dual-core-haswell-cpus-unveiled/
Haswell Ultrabook review - http://www.anandtech.com/show/7047/the-haswell-ultrabook-review-core-i74500u-tested

 

[Scouse]

Yes because a Nexus 7 is exactly like a Surface Pro.

Never said that. But then the Surface Pro is still just a tablet because it hasn't got a proper keyboard.

Forgive me, but what is the thing that you do most with a PC? Oh yes! Type stuff!

Lots and lots and lots of stuff. I sit with a wireless keyboard on my lap and my 42" telly in front of me and I do emails/forums/allsortsoftypeyshit on it.

When I'm out, if I *must* type something it'll be a text message saying I'll be back at some point and I'll catch up with my emails or whatever then. When I'm at work (lol), I use a computer. When I go away I take a netbook with me because I *shock* may need to type.

Typey typey typey. Typeytitype.

Forgive me for not being able to type my standard 100 words a minute on a fucking tablet.

 

[Moriath]

Scouse, you've missed the point I think. A laptop trumps an ipad. But nothing I've seen can trump a Surface Pro. No tablet can I touch type on, no laptop can I carry around as easily, or use a waacom pen on.
A windows tablet, ie Surface Pro trumps all in the current market tbh.

I like the type keyboard, the touch keyboard wasn't bad, but it just wasn't as good as a proper mechanical keyboard. If you are always going to be touch typing lots, then I'd get the type one, if not, get the touch.
Before I got the Type I went into John lewis and tried out a type keyboard.
Also, I think the windows store at the moment have an offer where if you buy a Surface you get a free keyboard.

I have a keyboard for my ipad I can touch type on.

 

[Scouse]

I have a keyboard for my ipad I can touch type on.

Congratulations for using your tablet like an expensive and underpowered laptop

 

[Moriath]

Congratulations for using your tablet like an expensive and underpowered laptop

Well done for having a portable that only works for 3 hours without a power supply

 

[Scouse]

Well done for having a portable that only works for 3 hours without a power supply

Can you swap your ipad battery out?

 

[megadave]

So what do kids need tablets in school for? Genuinely curious.

At that ages laptops are bad enough. When i was in about year 8 of secondary school they introduced laptops for every kid in my year (one of the first trials in the county) Fucking terrible idea!

 

[Syri]

When I was at junior school, the only computer in the school was a BBC micro (and it even had the turtle!), and at secondary school they had Acorn Archimedes. In my final year, they got their first PC, with a CD ROM drive and the Encarta encyclopedia...
Hmm, now I'm sounding like an old moaner... bah, I'll be going on about kids these days with their loud music and pants round their ankles before you know it...