On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 5:26 PM, Chaz Sliger <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm going to need a new computer pretty soon and was wondering if a tablet > might work for my mobile needs. > > Mostly I would need internet access and the ability to handle a spreadsheet > and email. > > Sooooo. Net + Email + Spreadsheet > > Are there any tablets out there that would qualify? > > ~chaz > > [email protected] > > > For something that is available now, my suggestion would be the Asus Transformer Prime. It has a removable keyboard/touchpad dock, which basically turns it into a laptop. This would be handy for needing to type more than a few words (long email, spreadsheets), but for just consuming info (net, videos, music, etc), you can undock and just use the tablet. This page has a good rundown of the capabilities. http://www.androidcentral.com/asus-transformer-prime-review I myself do not have first hand experience with it, except a few minutes here and there. I have a Viewsonic GTablet, got it during a Woot sale, and also because it has a good active developer community behind it on places such as slatedroid.com (formerly on xda-developers.com). That tablet is all but forgotten by Viewsonic, but with custom ROMs you can run Android 3.2 Honeycomb, and there are even early ports of Android 4.x Ice Cream Sandwich. It has similar specs to the iPad 1, and works well enough for me for now. I use it mostly for reading ebooks, web browsing, etc. If I need to type a lot I go to my desktop PC. HTH ---------- Matt M. LinuxKnight _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
