Evidently this will be the season of the tablets for gift giving.
I'll admit I'm a PC hardware fanatic...wanna a new desktop tell me what ya want and I can build it. Laptops? I don't build 'em but I can fix 'em...hell far I'm still using a 2½ year old Asus 17" laptop from time to time and wouldn't trade it for nuthin'...I will admit that my wife has a Toshiba Qosmio she purchased used from Amazon this summer that is awfully impressive ( I upped the memory). She got it because it's red.
Tablets? Hellsbells I know nothing about 'em. I have a 2 year old 10" Ematic with Android 2.3 that I use as a Kobo book reader and it's gooderly enough for me. So far my niece, my wife's niece, my nephew and a myriad of others have called me asking what do I think of this tablet or that tablet.
My response has been hell-if-I-know. I've told them just get what they're selling on nomorerack or w00t.
Major Kong wrote:Evidently this will be the season of the tablets for gift giving.
I'll admit I'm a PC hardware fanatic...wanna a new desktop tell me what ya want and I can build it. Laptops? I don't build 'em but I can fix 'em...hell far I'm still using a 2½ year old Asus 17" laptop from time to time and wouldn't trade it for nuthin'...I will admit that my wife has a Toshiba Qosmio she purchased used from Amazon this summer that is awfully impressive ( I upped the memory). She got it because it's red.
Tablets? Hellsbells I know nothing about 'em. I have a 2 year old 10" Ematic with Android 2.3 that I use as a Kobo book reader and it's gooderly enough for me. So far my niece, my wife's niece, my nephew and a myriad of others have called me asking what do I think of this tablet or that tablet.
My response has been hell-if-I-know. I've told them just get what they're selling on nomorerack or w00t.
I have had two iPads and one Samsung/android. The Apple product is much better, but more money of course.
I've gotten about 7 calls since Christmas Day asking for help. Android Jellybean Asus, MSI and Proscan...The Asus one I figured out (WiFi), the 2 Proscan's my niece figured out (WiFi) and the MSI I really don't have a clue.
Now on a different vein the 2 calls about laptops I got I took care of in less than 5 minutes.
HP laptop initializing the built in wireless adapter. Asus laptop hooking up a HDMI cable to a LG TV and putting the desktop from the laptop to the TV. Both just took hitting the right function key although I would have thought that the HP laptop would have had the wireless initiated.
Both laptops are Win 8.1 64 bit. There was a little bit of bitching but installing Classic Shell 4.0.2 took care of that.
Major Kong wrote:Evidently this will be the season of the tablets for gift giving.
I'll admit I'm a PC hardware fanatic...wanna a new desktop tell me what ya want and I can build it. Laptops? I don't build 'em but I can fix 'em...hell far I'm still using a 2½ year old Asus 17" laptop from time to time and wouldn't trade it for nuthin'...I will admit that my wife has a Toshiba Qosmio she purchased used from Amazon this summer that is awfully impressive ( I upped the memory). She got it because it's red.
Tablets? Hellsbells I know nothing about 'em. I have a 2 year old 10" Ematic with Android 2.3 that I use as a Kobo book reader and it's gooderly enough for me. So far my niece, my wife's niece, my nephew and a myriad of others have called me asking what do I think of this tablet or that tablet.
My response has been hell-if-I-know. I've told them just get what they're selling on nomorerack or w00t.
I have had two iPads and one Samsung/android. The Apple product is much better, but more money of course.
I wouldn't say 'better' from a hardware standpoint as the newer tablets are easily as capable as the Apple products. To me the bigger difference is on the software side of the equation.
Hokie5150 wrote:I wouldn't say 'better' from a hardware standpoint as the newer tablets are easily as capable as the Apple products. To me the bigger difference is on the software side of the equation.
Yeah Apple drifted away from their "proprietary" hardware sometime ago the difference is the software.
I haven't done it but I've seen several Hackintoshes.
