Yes, I certainly appreciate the difference between an Android tablet, and a Galaxy Book. I’m not sure what you mean though about Android tablets. There are lots of very good tablets out there which are based on Android. Indeed, were it not for the fact that the PixelBook is so highly priced, I may very well have thought about an early Christmas present from Santa!
I presume, based on your comments, that you mean a convertible, such as the Galaxy Book, the Microsoft Surface Pro and other similar Windows machines which have support for both touch technologies and traditional keyboards. In which case, again, there are quite a few options on the Android platform. I believe Toshiba, for example, market such a device. In fact, I would suspect that a Google search would turn up several examples. Most machines can, in fact, probably beat the specs of the Galaxy Book and the Surface Pro in many regards. The resources required to support Android are a little less demanding than a Windows-based solution although to be utterly fair, that gap has closed significantly since Microsoft streamlined much of its coding for Windows 10. It wasn’t very many years ago that I was quite oversee to the possibility that I may buy another Microsoft product, owing to the resource-hungriness and general poor stability of the operating system itself. That situation has, however, now been turned on its head. Finally, Microsoft has woken up to the fact that they were quite a way behind Unix/LINUX/BSD and, consequently, MacOS as well. But now, Windows 10 crashes are something which I for one encounter only extremely rarely and I think that Microsoft has done a fine job at cleaning up their act. But back to the point. I think that now it’s very much down to consumer needs when it comes to buying tablets and other modern computers. Many people go for the convertible, and usually that means Windows. However, its quite encouraging to know that devices such as the Google PixelBook do exist. Maybe next year, I could just be interested if the device continues to receive the rave reviews that it’s getting at the moment. ======================================== My compliments and kindest regards Gordon Smith: <gor...@mac-access.net> Accessibility & Information Technology Support Specialist.. This Message Was Created Using 100% Recycled Electrons. If you can avoid printing it, please do so. Think of the environment, save a tree! Contact: • UK Free Phone: 0800 8620538 • UK Geographic / Global: +44(0) 1642 688095 • UK Mobile/SMS: +44 (0)7804 983849 • Vic. Australia: +61 38 82059300 • US/Canada: +1 646 9151493 ---------------------------------------- On 14 Nov 2017, at 21:14, Dane Trethowan <grtd...@internode.on.net> wrote: Firstly the Samsung Galaxy Books are Windows based tablets so if you purchase a Galaxy Book you're literally purchasing yourself a mini Windows 10 Pro machine, nothing wrong with that whatever. I was asked what I thought the best Android tablet was. Only my opinion of course but I don't think there's any best Android tablet right now and I'm astonished that I'm making such remarks as there very clearly should be some very good Android tables around but for some reason there isn't. When it comes to build the iPad range are tops, I've not yet seen an Android tablet come even close. When it comes to Power the iPad keeps moving ahead. So we have the iPad but then that's not everything that people may demand from a tablet, yes its powerful but perhaps not versatile enough and that's where a good Android tablet should be in its element but no, not yet, the only alternative then is a Windows tablet such as the Galaxy Book. The Galaxy Book isn't quite as well built as an iPad but its a tough build all the same as all modern Samsung phones and tablets seem to be thus should last you hears to come. I'm working on a series of audio demos for the Samsung Galaxy Book 12 at the moment and will release them shortly. On 11/15/2017 7:32 AM, Gordon Smith wrote: > The latest model is called the PixelBook. The main advantage is that there is > now full 100% Android app support built-in which means, of course, that you > can install TalkBack and BrailleBack. Specs look quite good, although I still > think that the Samsung Galaxy Books, based on what I’ve read and what I’ve > been told, offer a better alternative. > > ======================================== > > My compliments and kindest regards > Gordon Smith: > <gor...@mac-access.net <mailto:gor...@mac-access.net>> > Accessibility & Information Technology Support Specialist.. > > This Message Was Created Using 100% Recycled Electrons. If you can avoid > printing it, please do so. Think of the environment, save a tree! > > Contact: > > • UK Free Phone: > 0800 8620538 > • UK Geographic / Global: > +44(0) 1642 688095 > • UK Mobile/SMS: > +44 (0)7804 983849 > • Vic. 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