Is 8 gigs enough on a tablet?

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So my daughter made some money doing a small casting and she wants to buy a small tablet for herself and her brother.
She made about R5k but I am willing to add an extra R1500, so my budget for both tablets is about R6500.

All the tablets I am looking at in that price range have 8 gigs on them and come with lollipop. I can add an extra 128 gigs but in the past I have had some issues with apps having to be installed onto the main storage with an old LG that came with very little internal storage. It got to the point where I just dumped the phone.

I think that the lg only had 4.2 on it is this still an issue with 5.1?

This is what I'm looking at : https://www.makro.co.za/computing-and-mobile/samsung-/br-9-6-galaxy-tab-e-tablet-wi-fi--330959EA#

Along with a couple of 128gig sd cards from esquire puts me at about R150 over budget, which is ok.

Will it work or is this going to bite me in the ass?
 
It will come back to bite you. Need to get a 16gig minimum. 8gig can fill up very quickly
 
Sugarman said:
It will come back to bite you. Need to get a 16gig minimum. 8gig can fill up very quickly
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Agree with 16GB if you want to add some apps. On 8GB half the storage is the OS. One moment, will check the OS storage space taken on both.

EDIT:
KitKat: 3.89GB with the rest of the cache: 3.94GB /8GB
Nougat: 6.80 GB with the cache: 7.25GB/16GB.

Of course your cache numbers will be different, my Nougat cache is bigger due to books/browser etc. being open.

With 8GB I kept running out of space, even with the SD card as apps don't want to transfer to SD card and even if they do, it's not much that's transferred.
The 16GB I haven't had an issue yet. All my music/videos is on the external 128GB SD card, just make sure the external is at least Class 10, Class 6 cards and below tend to have file corruption over time as the OS doesn't access it fast enough and it thinks that the file is corrupt (or at least that issue disappeared for me once I swapped to Class 10).
 
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If they want to hold any media (music, photos, etc) plus several apps, 8 Gbs will be gone in no time. Some the newer apps/games can be quite sizeable (which might also bloat a bit from in game progress?). If you can stretch a bit, I would try for 16 or even 32 maybe?
 
Thanks. I'll look and see if I can find a suitable 16 gig. I dont mind going up to about 8K if I have to, to save the ballache later.
 
No Lenovo also never update their firmware and you'll be stuck with what ever the tablet came with
 
Short answer is no not enough. After your service provider finishes loading his bloatware there will not be enough for you to do your thing and may even be too little to handle the endless stream of "updates".
 
That will actually do and it's r4399
 
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