If you opt to buy a tablet, consider this first

January 17, 2021, 02:15 AM

Enjoy your Fire HD 10 bigdeal. You absolutely got a great deal on it. The option of a wireless charging dock sealed the deal for me on the HD 8 Plus (not yet available on the 10 I don't think) and I'm really enjoying using it for my purposes. Works as an Amazon show when docked (with hands free Alexa of course) and with tablet features. It also replaces my Kindle Voyage reader nicely. ANYTHING else bigger, faster and/or more expensive would have been a waste of money for me and may not have checked the boxes the Fire HD 8 does.

January 17, 2021, 02:26 AM

V-Tail

quote:
Originally posted by sns3guppy:

I have an ipad because my employer requires it . . . I need a keyboard. I don't type with my thumbs and the hunt and peck thing on a tablet is for the birds.

I too, prefer an actual keyboard. WOOT! has a deal going on right now. Apple compact bluetooth keyboard, re-furb, forty-five bucks. I grabbed one. It pairs with my iThings (iPhone and iPad), but one at a time.

Logitech offers a compact bluetooth keyboard that has a switch, making it easy to pair with three devices and quickly switch the keyboard to any of them.

Using a keyboard paired with a phone or tablet accomplishes two things: the obvious one is ease of typing, the one that I did not even think about until I started using the keyboard is the additional display area that is freed up on the screen of the phone or tablet when the keyboard image is not displayed.

January 17, 2021, 05:05 AM

Pale Horse

quote:
Originally posted by bigdeal:
Hey Para, if you happen to wander through this thread please feel to lock it. I'm done.

Sorry man. I did one appreciate your original post.

January 17, 2021, 01:01 PM

Rey HRH

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Originally posted by Bytes:
Still being an active software engineer I'll take a MS Surface any day of the week. Apple tablets, chrome books, and Amazon Fire(s) suck shit. I'll take a real desktop in a slightly heavier tablet any day of the week. A word of caution, the Surface aint cheap. I haven't owned a real desktop for about four years.

does it use windows 10 and can it run windows program like quicken?

"It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life – daily and hourly. Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual." Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning, 1946.

January 17, 2021, 01:09 PM

sigcrazy7

quote:
Originally posted by Rey HRH:
quote:
Originally posted by Bytes:
Still being an active software engineer I'll take a MS Surface any day of the week. Apple tablets, chrome books, and Amazon Fire(s) suck shit. I'll take a real desktop in a slightly heavier tablet any day of the week. A word of caution, the Surface aint cheap. I haven't owned a real desktop for about four years.

does it use windows 10 and can it run windows program like quicken?

Yes

January 17, 2021, 03:14 PM

konata88

I have a fire tablet. And thought it would be a good value. It’s left me wanting for every usage. It’s more like a toy. Maybe good for streaming you tube for kids.

I would not buy again. And then on top of that Amazon. There are degrees of evil. Amazon, google and Microsoft are top 3 at the bottom.

January 17, 2021, 04:03 PM

Pale Horse

I’ve got a few fire tablets that I think I paid 30 bucks apiece for a few years back around Christmas. I use them to watch movies and TV and read books. For that they are perfect.

I have a Surface pro tablet that I use as a personal computer. It’s absolutely fantastic.