New Tablet advice needed!

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The Philosopher

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I am looking to get a tablet that will double as a laptop as I do not have one. I will use it for work primarily.Because of this I was thinking that the samsung galaxy note range would be better as I can take notes using the stylus. This depends on the efficacy of the stylus though.

So I need to decide on the Galaxy Note 2014 edition 10.1 LTE or the Galaxy Tab S 10.5 LTE version. Then the second quesion is whether I should go for the 8" varieties of these two?

I really like that the tab s is 6.6 mm thick. The note is 7.9mm thick, which I suppose is not noticeably bigger.

If you feel there is another pad that you can suggest which is a worthy contender let me know. Also I really like the huge resolution. IS the super Amoled better than the note's screen?

What should I go for. Also I saw that orange has the best prices locally I have seen. I would consider getting a second hand one off amazon too.

What do you recommend?

Thanks :)
 
Windows tablet, if you're going to use it for work
 
@web Good buy pity it can't "Flex" all the way around(360) or can it? Do you ever flip it like that onto its keyboard? I mean might as well leave it with the keyboard the right way around you'll get the same degrees of screen tilt and a physical keyboard.
 
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I do flip it around sometimes but in all honesty the actual physical keyboard is soooooo much better than using one on the screen, have loaded windows 10 on it this weekend I am going to try some linux just to see while I wait for a SSD drive.
 
My wife's acer laptop has win 8 on it and I loathe it! is it better on tablet?

Hmm, I looked at the lenovo flex, but it seems to be a laptop, how much they go for. I don't want a laptop.

Win 10 out? is that better than win 8?
 
The Philosopher said:
My wife's acer laptop has win 8 on it and I loathe it! is it better on tablet?

Hmm, I looked at the lenovo flex, but it seems to be a laptop, how much they go for. I don't want a laptop.

Win 10 out? is that better than win 8?
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I paid R3999.00 for it. I have had 3 tablets 2 samsung and an iPad and they all became paper weights after a few months as I just found it a pain using them for anything for work. Windows 8.1 on a touch screen is not to bad, and i have a full keyboard and track pad on the flex. I looked at the others where you can disconnect the keyboard etc so but are looking at close to R5000.00 with 64gig hard drive. the flex has a 500gig hard drive. For me for work I now actually use my "tablet"
 
Our Note 10.1 2014 edition ended up being used occasionally to play movies on, as it is useless trying to use it as a laptop.
It basically does what you can do on a phone, just in a bit bigger format.
 
This all depends on what your line of work is and what you want to do on it. The Android and iOS versions of Office 365 are pretty good for touch-based devices and there's OneNote available as well. The Note 10.1 comes with the S-Pen which is really not bad at all, but may not be as good as a Wacom digitiser.

The ASUS Vivotab Note 8 does come with a Wacom digitiser, but being a tablet its functionality is limited without the right keyboard. Microsoft has a pretty kickass keyboard for tablets. ASUS has the T100TA, but it doesn't have a stylus. Proline has the A933L and all that it has over the Nexbooks is that extra 1GB of RAM as well as a way better display (complete with Windows UI scaling issues if you use desktop mode a lot). To function properly, it pretty much has to live inside the Modern interface all of the time.

The alternative to all of this is buying a decent notebook, buying a second-hand Galaxy Tab Note and syncing things up using OneDrive and OneNote.
 
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I looked at that last year 64gig hard drive and the one i played with was really flimsy.
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Presumably SSD?

would rather have that than a 500gb mechanical drive. Especially in a portable.
 
SauRoNZA said:
Presumably SSD?

would rather have that than a 500gb mechanical drive. Especially in a portable.
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Specs:

FeaturesHard Drive: 64GB SSDMemory: 2GB DDR2L 800MHZCamera: Front and BackMicro Processor Type: Intel Atom z2760Network Connectivity: Wifi & BluetoothUSBEmbedded 3GIntel® Graphics Media AcceleratorMicrosoft Office TrialAmbient Light SensorGPSNorton Internet Security (60 days Trial)EvernoteStereo Speakers ( 0.64W x 2 )Internal Dual Array Digital Mic
 
CataclysmZA said:
The ASUS Vivotab Note 8 does come with a Wacom digitiser, but being a tablet its functionality is limited without the right keyboard. Microsoft has a pretty kickass keyboard for tablets. ASUS has the T100TA, but it doesn't have a stylus. Proline has the A933L and all that it has over the Nexbooks is that extra 1GB of RAM as well as a way better display (complete with Windows UI scaling issues if you use desktop mode a lot). To function properly, it pretty much has to live inside the Modern interface all of the time.
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I would go with Atom Quad for battery life (unless CPU speed is an issue), Proline is the cheapest one with good specs.
 
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