Anyone use a tablet ?

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  • scrumhalfscrumhalf Frets: 11262
    I've got a Lenovo S8.

    It mainly gets used when I'm off on my travels. I tend to use it to watch films, browse the web and look at pdfs.

    The display is brilliant, it has, I think, 16GB on board and can take 32GB titchy SDHC cards, which is tremendous. I can use a mouse with it, whicvh is great for some websites.

    It's not a substitute for a PC but it does what I want and it's a bargain.
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  • Emp_FabEmp_Fab Frets: 24210
    With any luck, if the seller honours it, I should be the owner of an iPad mini 2 later today.

    I hope it doesn't fall through as I've now ceased bidding on the tiny handful on eBay that I could collect.
    Lack of planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on mine.
    Also chips are "Plant-based" no matter how you cook them.
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  • MyrandaMyranda Frets: 2940
    I am finding myself wanting a tablet for carrying books and lecture slides... But I want a 13 inch (or very close) screen (close enough to A4 size for reading things like magazines at a good size)... 

    So far the 13inch tablets I've seen are horrifically expensive or a potato with a screen... 
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  • BRISTOL86BRISTOL86 Frets: 1920
    Emp_Fab said:
    With any luck, if the seller honours it, I should be the owner of an iPad mini 2 later today.

    I hope it doesn't fall through as I've now ceased bidding on the tiny handful on eBay that I could collect.
    Nice. They're a nice compromise size wise between a large smartphone and normal size tablet. 
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  • TTonyTTony Frets: 27345
    Grunfeld said:
    2)  Er, how do you get your data from the iPad onto a USB stick?

    @grunfeld - on the rare occasions that I need to transfer something big onto my iPad, I use my wifi enabled Sandisk storage device.  That's been a handy thing in many situations ...
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  • Emp_FabEmp_Fab Frets: 24210
    It now appears that by this evening I will be the owner of an iPad mini 2 AND an iPad 3.  One of the ones I was watching on eBay had a few minutes to go and was only at £53.  As the going rate for those seems around £120, I figured I could risk bidding up to the low 80's on the off chance of bagging a bargain.  I got it for £81.  I can have a play with both and just sell on my least favourite of the two (assuming the mini 2 seller comes through).
    Lack of planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on mine.
    Also chips are "Plant-based" no matter how you cook them.
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  • Emp_FabEmp_Fab Frets: 24210
    SO !  School me (I hate that phrase !) in Apple !

    Don't know much about Apple Mac,
    Don't know much about Wozniac,
    Don't know much about IOS,
    Don't know what that old iTunes is for...

    What, if anything, should I know as I take my first steps into the world of Apple ??
    Lack of planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on mine.
    Also chips are "Plant-based" no matter how you cook them.
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  • TheBigDipperTheBigDipper Frets: 4722
    Don't think of it as a PC. That won't work. iOS sometimes does things in a different (yet ultimately easier to use, IMHO) way that can take a bit of time to get into. Take the time and resist the temptation to throw the device out of the window. 

    Obviously you should try the Kindle app, coz that's how you started thinking about this, wasn't it? 

    What do you use a computer for now? 
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  • JeremiahJeremiah Frets: 631
    Got one. Hated it.
    I thought I could use it as a replacement for a laptop, but it turned out to be the worst of all worlds - not portable enough to carry around like a phone, but too small to do anything useful with.
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  • The best tablets are Ipads. 

    But they're so expensive you could get an absolutely excellent, slightly bigger android or even windows equivalent. 

    Comparing something like my hudl 2 to an ipad (which is what most "apple are da best" people do) is ridiculous. Compare a £340 ipad to a lenovo yoga tab for about £400 and it's... Not so clear cut. 

    For a simple, safe, consumer device ipad rocks. But for any kind of work, it's not amazing - it has some great apps, but it's just not that capable. The apple adverts suggesting it can replace a windows laptop, even a £300 one, is laughable. But it's safer, has a beautiful, responsive screen and is a lovely product. 

    My little brother has an ipad pro and I'll be damned if I can work out why it was worth £400 more beyond storage space... 

    @Myranda ;
    https://m.johnlewis.com/microsoft-surface-pro-4-tablet-intel-core-m3-4gb-ram-128gb-ssd-12-3-inch-touchscreen/p/2289778 would that tick a box for you? 

    I tried a higher end one and it was absolutely brilliant. Much more capable than an ipad. Costs more than a basic ipad mind. 

    Regarding Android app store being rubbish, nonsense. How many apps do you actually want/use? All the common, best and most useful ones are across all devices. I've never lacked, as far as I can think. 
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  • Emp_FabEmp_Fab Frets: 24210
    edited May 2017
    Hello.  I am writing this on my new iPad mini 2.  

    I come from Barcelona.

    I learn it from a booooook.

    I also have an iPad 3.

    I spent ages on my "Don't know much about" lyrics above and not one LOL.  Bastardos.

    Lack of planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on mine.
    Also chips are "Plant-based" no matter how you cook them.
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  • TTonyTTony Frets: 27345
    Emp_Fab said:

    Don't know what that old iTunes is for...

    Welcome to AppleWorld.

    1.  Create yourself an account in AppleWorld / AppStore.
    2.  Go shopping in the AppStore.
    3.  Never use 90% of the apps that you buy.
    4.  Wonder how you survived without that other 10%.
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  • chrispy108chrispy108 Frets: 2336
    It's truly tragic how often you beg for LOLs.

    I can get free digital magazines from my local library website via Zinio. See if you can!
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  • Emp_FabEmp_Fab Frets: 24210
    edited May 2017
    "Truly Tragic" - Really ?

    You need to get a grip on your hyperbole mate.

    Who's Zinio ?  Does he play for Milan.
    Lack of planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on mine.
    Also chips are "Plant-based" no matter how you cook them.
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  • MyrandaMyranda Frets: 2940
    Emp_Fab said:
    Hello.  I am writing this on my new iPad mini 2.  

    I come from Barcelona.

    I learn it from a booooook.

    I also have an iPad 3.

    I spent ages on my "Don't know much about" lyrics above and not one LOL.  Bastardos.

    I at least read it in a lyrical way and in my head it sounded like the song. 
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  • Emp_FabEmp_Fab Frets: 24210
    Thank you.  At least one person here is musical  :)
    Lack of planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on mine.
    Also chips are "Plant-based" no matter how you cook them.
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  • Emp_FabEmp_Fab Frets: 24210
    Oh My God.

    I had no idea that computers could be so polished and slick.  I!ve been playing with the iPads for a while now and they are amazing!!!!  I've spent my life fighting with Windows computers but this is almost effortless.  I haven't encountered a single bug so far.  Sorry to wheel out a fanboy phrase but, it all just works.  

    Has Apple always been like this ?  To tell the truth, the last Apple device I ever played with was the mind-blowing Apple ][ in the local computer shop in 1979.  It had these amazing new 5.25" floppy drives and a COLOUR screen!!!

    This smells of professionalism and serious thought in the design process combined with very strict 
    Quality control on the software front.

    I think I'm becoming a convert.

    ...or was it a pervert ?

    either way...
    Lack of planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on mine.
    Also chips are "Plant-based" no matter how you cook them.
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  • stickyfiddlestickyfiddle Frets: 26753
    One of us. One of us...

    Apple software is not maybe as polished as it was 10 years ago, but it's still bloody good for everything normal people need to do with it. 

    Sent from my MacBook ;)
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  • TTonyTTony Frets: 27345
    Emp_Fab said:
    Oh My God.

    I had no idea that computers could be so polished and slick.   
    Wait til you see what's happened with TVs in the last few decades ... some of them even have *colour* pictures.  Incredible!
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  • Emp_FabEmp_Fab Frets: 24210
    Shucherface you.  You know what I mean.  :)
    Lack of planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on mine.
    Also chips are "Plant-based" no matter how you cook them.
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