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Does anybody have any thoughts or experiance with the Nextbook 8.At R 1500 at Makro it looks like a bargain.Looks to me that it is wifi only?
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RogueGhost87
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Has anybody got one and installed steam on it? , was thinking it would be perfect fit thanks to in home streaming and also downloading a game from my library when near uncapped?
Was looking forward to picking one up next month, but see the price is jumping to R2500
Was looking forward to picking one up next month, but see the price is jumping to R2500
Haven't testing steam on it
Have streamed HD movies on it using VLC Media Player - The screen quality is not the best
Where did you see that?
Way69
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I have one... Internal storage is pretty poor, setup office and a handful of modern apps and now only have 1gb free on the c drive... Screen is really really bad, I love the concept but will be sticking to my iPad until I can find a windows tablet that at least has an equal display. I cant stress enough how poor the display is.
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Saw in the brochure that it's usually R2499 for the 8 inch, sure I read it or saw it as well , I'm hope I'm wrong, I don't mind dropping R1500 for the 8", I won't mind screen quality, can understand that cheap parts were needed to meet that price range but what really makes me interested it small and compact windows, better than lugging a laptop along as well as touch.
DA-LION-619
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Why are guys comparing this to the iPad when it's not even in the same price category....
Way69
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Whether its cheaper or not doesn't change the fact that the screen is the worst screen I have seen in a very long time. I'd gladly spend more on something better.
I'm now sold on windows in terms of tablets but this device is not great. I'd give it to a child as a gift but I cant find a use case for myself. Too nasty.
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DA-LION-619
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The 10"? What about the Dell range of tablets?
Way69
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Low ppi... Windows on a tablet really has the potential to blow android out of the water functionality wise, hardware just isn't great. Surface pro is appealing, maybe when the cpu's no longer require active cooling and its thinner.
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AchmatK
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+1 for the Dell.
I have a Dell latitude 10". Runs all my windows apps perfectly. Using the pen with one note is a breeze. Would like a swype keyboard though but handwriting recognition is brilliant even with my bad handwriting.
Got mine a few months ago for R6k. Battery lasts a whole day. Biggest gripe I have is the lack of accessories.
Probably the 10" with the keyboard
Its ideal for traveling. My mate does a lot of traveling and now can leave his laptop at work and read his emails on the tablet, open attachments, read numbers of spreadsheets. Using it with a Bluetooth keyboard helps with typing.
The memory capacity is a drawback but there is always a micro sd that can fix that
The screen resolution was good enough to watch some hd movies
I have the Samsung Ativ Smart PC and would rather have a windows tablet this size
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Short review from one of the forumites:
http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthr...-now-in-SA?p=14004307&viewfull=1#post14004307
http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthr...-now-in-SA?p=14004307&viewfull=1#post14004307
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Saw it in this Makro weekly brochure http://www.makro.co.za/Catalogues/PDF/GM%20Catalogue%20-%2018%20Nov%20to%2024%20Nov%202014.pdf
The 10" seems to be it's regular price at R2999.99, I've looked online and everywhere states the 8" at R1500 and nothing about it being on promotion,so safe to presume it's at R1500 rrp
Hopefully next month I'll go for a 8inch and just a 32GB card or possibly a 64Gb if I can get a good deal on one, I've still got a galaxy 10.1v but as the screen is failing slowly it's time to look for something that's cheap and portable,I don't really do much on the tab except surf the web, I've got a Note 3 so I'm happy on my android side, just want something I can quickly grab if I want to go somewhere or download something or play a indie game and happy it's got a micro HDMI slot ,not really interested in 365 but it's there so can't complain
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I've had one for a few days. Am on a phone now so brief. Quick comments:
1. Amazing price for an x86 Windows tablet with Desktop, USB device support, an HDMI port, and a microSD slot (into which I put a 64 gig Class 10 card). Irresistible in fact.
2. The C partition is 9.56GB.
3. Performance out of the box is perfectly acceptable - Win8.1+Bing feels snappy and responsive for ordinary media consumption and browsing.
4. I wanted to RDP into the Nextbook to install more apps, but this is the "Home" version of Win8.1, so not all Win8.1 Pro features are there. So I upgraded it to Win8.1 Pro (took about 6-7 minutes online) using an available 8.1 serial key. Everything worked fine, but there are some limitations, eg you can't change the size/scale of display items.
5. It comes with a year's subscription to Office 365 which I never installed. After doing a full reset, the serial key file to install the included O365 was no longer available, so I installed O365 from another subscription. Will try to contact the vendor to get a new serial key.6.
I signed in with my personal Microsoft account, and all my settings, passwords, wifi creds, favorites, etc were rapidly synced. Marvellous ... until I ran into storage limitations, largely because of my OneDrive and Office365.
I have nearly 150GB of stuff on OneDrive. Even though 99% of it has Availability set to Online Only, just the placeholders take up nearly 1.5GB of storage.
Then moved OneDrive from C to the SD card, which had to reformatted to NTFS. That took nearly 3 hours, and it was moving only placeholders, not the full files.Of course you can't use Dropbox on removable storage (SD card), so if you have anything more than a couple of hundreds megs in DB it's a no-no.
The system then had 850 meg free on C. Moving the Environment Variables to D (SD) didn't free up much.
The OS is in WIMboot rather than a regular installation.
The touch accuracy for the tiny Desktop items is amazingly accurate - I have giant fingers and taps were spot-on for everything except tiny vertical scroll bars. The soft keyboard is usable but does not support swype-style input as per WP8.1.
Media streamed perfectly fine over wifi. Including MKVs. The screen is serviceable indoors but is very reflective and throws back a horrible glare in certain lighting conditions. But considering the price, it's quite ok.
Bottom line: For the price this is astonishing value. O365 alone is worth a grand.
Use it for consumption, browsing and light editing. Think carefully about your intended use, and don't expect to load lots of apps - the 16GB storage is absolutely the bare minimum. I might open it up to see if the SSD can be upgraded (it identifies as a Toshiba).
And don't make the mistake I did of loading in many/all your standard Win apps and utilities even if they can go onto the SD card. It's certainly not a notebook or laptop replacement.I'll probably reset it back to the included Win8.1+Bing and not install Office.
It's a very usable and serviceable little tablet, with full Windows compatibility. It beats my 7" Android tab hands down. And it supports USB. At R1600, nothing else comes close.
I wish it had a fullsized USB port and at least 32GB of storage.
Sorry, laboriously typed much more than intended.
1. Amazing price for an x86 Windows tablet with Desktop, USB device support, an HDMI port, and a microSD slot (into which I put a 64 gig Class 10 card). Irresistible in fact.
2. The C partition is 9.56GB.
3. Performance out of the box is perfectly acceptable - Win8.1+Bing feels snappy and responsive for ordinary media consumption and browsing.
4. I wanted to RDP into the Nextbook to install more apps, but this is the "Home" version of Win8.1, so not all Win8.1 Pro features are there. So I upgraded it to Win8.1 Pro (took about 6-7 minutes online) using an available 8.1 serial key. Everything worked fine, but there are some limitations, eg you can't change the size/scale of display items.
5. It comes with a year's subscription to Office 365 which I never installed. After doing a full reset, the serial key file to install the included O365 was no longer available, so I installed O365 from another subscription. Will try to contact the vendor to get a new serial key.6.
I signed in with my personal Microsoft account, and all my settings, passwords, wifi creds, favorites, etc were rapidly synced. Marvellous ... until I ran into storage limitations, largely because of my OneDrive and Office365.
I have nearly 150GB of stuff on OneDrive. Even though 99% of it has Availability set to Online Only, just the placeholders take up nearly 1.5GB of storage.
Then moved OneDrive from C to the SD card, which had to reformatted to NTFS. That took nearly 3 hours, and it was moving only placeholders, not the full files.Of course you can't use Dropbox on removable storage (SD card), so if you have anything more than a couple of hundreds megs in DB it's a no-no.
The system then had 850 meg free on C. Moving the Environment Variables to D (SD) didn't free up much.
The OS is in WIMboot rather than a regular installation.
The touch accuracy for the tiny Desktop items is amazingly accurate - I have giant fingers and taps were spot-on for everything except tiny vertical scroll bars. The soft keyboard is usable but does not support swype-style input as per WP8.1.
Media streamed perfectly fine over wifi. Including MKVs. The screen is serviceable indoors but is very reflective and throws back a horrible glare in certain lighting conditions. But considering the price, it's quite ok.
Bottom line: For the price this is astonishing value. O365 alone is worth a grand.
Use it for consumption, browsing and light editing. Think carefully about your intended use, and don't expect to load lots of apps - the 16GB storage is absolutely the bare minimum. I might open it up to see if the SSD can be upgraded (it identifies as a Toshiba).
And don't make the mistake I did of loading in many/all your standard Win apps and utilities even if they can go onto the SD card. It's certainly not a notebook or laptop replacement.I'll probably reset it back to the included Win8.1+Bing and not install Office.
It's a very usable and serviceable little tablet, with full Windows compatibility. It beats my 7" Android tab hands down. And it supports USB. At R1600, nothing else comes close.
I wish it had a fullsized USB port and at least 32GB of storage.
Sorry, laboriously typed much more than intended.
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DA-LION-619
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Just noticed this now, I thought this was the other thread while on my tab, this is in the wrong subforum this isn't WP its Windows.
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Is it because of the PPI?
Way69
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Viewing angles are extremely poor as well. It reminds me of the first colour lcd I saw on a laptop in the 90's.
It performs well, I just wanted to use it for reading and I cant recommend the screen for that..