Windows Tablet

It says it has a full version of Windows (not the slimmed down RT) and has ab Intel chip. So it should work as a normal pc, just install a keyboard and mouse.

Though it will be slow. On the plus side if it doesn’t fit your needs, amazon will take it back no questions asked.

For that type of money you can get an i5 thinkpad refeb of ebay. It would smoke this thing, and be far more flexible.

I have a Lenovo Android 8″ tablet and bought my gdaughter a 10″ Dragon tablet at the same time. Her 1o” was slow, as are all budget tablets below iPad spec, but the resolution was carp, compared to the Lenovo and Hudl 8″ I also have. The Dragon was replaced by a Thinkpad laptop as Steve says. IMO tablets are fine if that’s what you want as occasional backup for a laptop or desktop, especially when linked to them and your phone via a Google account. However I would never contemplate one as a main PC: some of the tasks on them are painfully slow. And I would not buy a Windows tablet anyway: android uses much less of everything.

John, have you read the Amazon Reviews and the Questions? This is one of the Answers to a Question about Resolution:

“..my answer to your question the resolution is good however think twice before you purchase, it is very slow and for some reason loses hard drive space, if it wasn’t for the spare card I would have no space to load programs, I had to return my unit and all they did was remove the windows ten and reload it after about ten days the hard drive started to lose space again and I had to reset it once more,hope this helps
By c.w.terry on 20 October 2018 ”

Sounds like a memory leak, or background processes that don’t stop? – maybe others will know.

You can’t, but there are apps that cover the majority of things on android. Mostly free too.

In my experiance windows tablet mode is horrific, my girl and boy (11 and 17) have the lenovo thinkpad yoga 12, it has 8gb ram and and i5, ssd, it’s still shite, so power isn’t the issue, it’s just a crap tablet os. However as a laptop it’s brilliant.

The issue with a cheap atom tablet, is as a “desktop” it will also be shite. So you will get the worst of both worlds

If you really want a win tablet, up your budget to about 240 and get one othr yoga 12 (mentioned above) off ebay referbished.

There are 4gb versions too for a bit cheaper. Which will be more than fine. You will be throwing money away on anything other than a windows surface tablet, and still then the tablet aspect is poor. And they ain’t cheap.

I’m not familiar with this particular tablet, but many are now struggling with Windows updates as the latest update increases ram and disk requirements.

Anniversary update needs 2GB of ram 16 GB of disk space and a 1GHz cpu for desktop compatibility.

Push bullet is one of the best apps going. Makes it very easy to copy and paste, send files form android to Windows.

App on phone/tablet (as many devices as you like) and a browser plug in on chrome.

Also it lests you see and send texts from any device or pc. It’s a brilliant app. It’s on all my devices. My main use is to send passwords from device to decve via copy paste, as I hate the times I need to write a long password, so I copy and send it in two clicks. It’s also encrypted.

The rest I use Google’s service like bob. Between the two services, I can use android, Windows and chrome os devices, always just picking up where I left off. Probably both work with ios and osx, but I have no experiance with apple stuff.

By linking Bob just means you gan log into Gmail on any device and your done. There is linking, you just sign in. If on android, download the app, if on Windows download chrom and sign in.

If you download Google’s Office apps on your tablet /phone, you will get full access to all your docs and stiff on a pc, when you sign into chrome. As all docs, spreedsheets auto save to dooogle drive. So no matter your os, you just sign in via an app or browser and it’s all there.

You can install Google drive on Windows, but I haven’t. It’s easy enough to use without it. Using it actually creates an extra layer of complexity.

Google give you a lot of few drive space, but even if you fill that it’s dirt cheap to expand. Iicc 200gb is about £2 per month. That’s what I’m on iirc. It use to be cheaper 5 doors usd for a year for 100gb. But that stopped. I was grandfather’s in for a few extra years but once I hit the 101gb I had to move to the next tier and lost my sweet deal. Lol.