It depends; at the very least, it better do what it was purported to do. If say a cheap tablet couldn't reliably hold a network connection, play a video, load a graphic-laden webpage, or last at least 4 hours on battery, then it's pretty worthless to me.
@narfcake well said, as much as I still want an iPad I just can't spend the money and I've enjoyed my kindle fire much more than I expected because it does what I want it to.
@conandlibrarian Probably the same way a lot of people use their tablets, mostly in bed either browsing the web or playing games. I also went to www.humblebundle.com/books and got a ton of comics to read on it. Some things are annoying, like the way their predictive text works but for the price it's not lacking that much compared to an iPad.
I have a notebook and an iPad. I use my iPad a hell of a lot more than my notebook. Hell, I used it a hell of a lot more than my old netbook. It's just more convenient.
Does it count that I still have a functioning Mac G3 (tan) as my back up computer? I guess my standards are pretty low for a backup machine. LOL Hmm I wonder, if I had any money, if that would mean I'd buy this current deal as my backup machine? Moot point since I am beyond broke.
I bought a tablet thinking I'd use it all the time, but it just sits on my desk at work as a dedicated podcast player. I guess I'm in the minority though, because everyone I know who has a tablet loves it and uses it as much or more than their computer.
@narfcake True, and I do like the convenience, but if I knew that's all it would be, I wouldn't have spent $200+ on it. I'm probably at 60% laptop/desktop, 39% phone, 1 % tablet, so the cost is definitely not justified.
My first tablet was Viewsonic's G Tablet- I got it because it was cheap on Woot, and because it looked like you could actually make it into a decent tablet by installing a custom ROM. The number of things wrong with that tablet were astounding. The two, no, three biggest problems were:
Upside down screen - the screen was mounted upside down, so if you looked at it off-angle normally, it was off-color and like a privacy filter. No auto-rotate either.
Power hog - the battery drained a lot, even over night doing nothing.
(Virtually) useless out of the box - no Play Store (or Google Market as I think it was called before), or other Google apps. Had to use a custom ROM to get good stuff on the tablet.
@dashcloud: It's reading about experiences like your's that made me opt for a Blackberry Playbook 2+ years ago. There were limitations, for certain, but IMHO it was still the most functional $130 tablet for that era.
@dashcloud That was mine too -- I've since overcompensated for its failings by buying a few others. But thanks to that folio case, I managed to repurpose the G Tabs for stuff like weather displays and alerts for local bus service approaching my stop. At least it does handle fairly static displays like those well enough.
It depends; at the very least, it better do what it was purported to do. If say a cheap tablet couldn't reliably hold a network connection, play a video, load a graphic-laden webpage, or last at least 4 hours on battery, then it's pretty worthless to me.
@narfcake well said, as much as I still want an iPad I just can't spend the money and I've enjoyed my kindle fire much more than I expected because it does what I want it to.
@JonT how do you use your kindle fire? Plugged mine in after months of sitting. Want to start using it at work
@conandlibrarian Probably the same way a lot of people use their tablets, mostly in bed either browsing the web or playing games. I also went to www.humblebundle.com/books and got a ton of comics to read on it. Some things are annoying, like the way their predictive text works but for the price it's not lacking that much compared to an iPad.
I have a notebook and an iPad. I use my iPad a hell of a lot more than my notebook. Hell, I used it a hell of a lot more than my old netbook. It's just more convenient.
Does it count that I still have a functioning Mac G3 (tan) as my back up computer? I guess my standards are pretty low for a backup machine. LOL Hmm I wonder, if I had any money, if that would mean I'd buy this current deal as my backup machine? Moot point since I am beyond broke.
I bought a tablet thinking I'd use it all the time, but it just sits on my desk at work as a dedicated podcast player. I guess I'm in the minority though, because everyone I know who has a tablet loves it and uses it as much or more than their computer.
@Moose: That's still using it for something. My computer usage is about 60% desktop/laptop, 20% tablet, 20% phone.
@narfcake True, and I do like the convenience, but if I knew that's all it would be, I wouldn't have spent $200+ on it. I'm probably at 60% laptop/desktop, 39% phone, 1 % tablet, so the cost is definitely not justified.
My first tablet was Viewsonic's G Tablet- I got it because it was cheap on Woot, and because it looked like you could actually make it into a decent tablet by installing a custom ROM. The number of things wrong with that tablet were astounding.
The two, no, three biggest problems were:
@dashcloud: It's reading about experiences like your's that made me opt for a Blackberry Playbook 2+ years ago. There were limitations, for certain, but IMHO it was still the most functional $130 tablet for that era.
@dashcloud That was mine too -- I've since overcompensated for its failings by buying a few others. But thanks to that folio case, I managed to repurpose the G Tabs for stuff like weather displays and alerts for local bus service approaching my stop. At least it does handle fairly static displays like those well enough.