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[RECOMMEND ON] ~$500 windows tablet edition
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Neat-o, mosquito!Registered User regular
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Your friendly neighborhood bug scientist is here!
As the resident "tech guy" in my family, I've been conscripted to help my mother pick out a new laptop.
However, I think she should get a tablet, for a lot of reasons- they are lighter (she has arthritis), more portable, and generally more "user friendly" than a computer.
I'm thinking about recommending her this one, but what do you guys think?
She's looking to use it mostly for web browsing and light document editing/learning how to use office products
I figure a Windows 8 tablet with Office 365 would be a better buy than a laptop of similar price...but I'm not sure!
Are ~$500 tablets worth doing office work on? Should I instead recommend her some cheap laptop?
THANKS GUYS
Your friendly neighborhood bug scientist is here!
As the resident "tech guy" in my family, I've been conscripted to help my mother pick out a new laptop.
However, I think she should get a tablet, for a lot of reasons- they are lighter (she has arthritis), more portable, and generally more "user friendly" than a computer.
I'm thinking about recommending her this one, but what do you guys think?
She's looking to use it mostly for web browsing and light document editing/learning how to use office products
I figure a Windows 8 tablet with Office 365 would be a better buy than a laptop of similar price...but I'm not sure!
Are ~$500 tablets worth doing office work on? Should I instead recommend her some cheap laptop?
THANKS GUYS
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Refurbished is an issue though.
This here, or go with a surface RT. The lenovos with the atom processors operate at a crawl and have difficulty even with youtube.
A lot of these suggestions are good, thanks guys!
I'm leery of getting a refurb though- it isn't for myself, it's for my mom and I'm just a bit nervous (plus she is too picky to go in for a 'used' computer).
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Maybe it's a personal thing, but I don't enjoy using my tablet to type anything very long.
How big a laptop/tablet are we talking about here though? Is an 8 inch tablet too small for her? It's not really a right format for any kind of content creation.
What about a Dell XPS 12 or a Lenovo IdeaPad Yoga 13? Those are convertible laptops. They don't separate the keyboard portion from the tablet but both fold in a way that makes it a pseudo tablet for content consumption.
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My wife has been using a Dell Venue 8 Pro (64GB) for a few weeks and she's totally sold on it. We are nearly a 100% Apple ecosystem household but one of my IT bros at work let her play with his DV8P and she loved it. It has the full version of Windows 8.1 and it comes with Office 2013 Student Edition. We bought it open box at Microcenter for $200.