Yes the Samsung Galaxy Book 12 is an expensive machine without a doubt.
Chromebooks are entirely different beasts.
A Chromebook is about as mimimalist notebook as you could possibly buy
and it doesn't need to be much given that all it has to do is allow
connection to the Internet for the user to use everything else in the
cloud, Google Docs and the like.
As far as I know the Chromebook uses its own operating system Chrome OS
and even that only needs to be the bare bones of an operating systemso
no surprise at all about the cost of a Chromebook, they're the cheapest
computing solution available apart from the other Raspberry Pi's and so
on which fall into a completely different category.
As I said in a previous post, Android tablets have still got to come up
to the standard of iPad and Windows tablets so yep, not surprised that
they're significantly cheaper than the Samsung.
Asus? Well if you want to take the risk of owning one then fine, I know
Asus have a reputation for great hardware such as Rooters etc but not
computers.
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On 11/16/2017 4:01 AM, David Griffith wrote:
OK glad to be contradicted.
I looked up the Samsung 12 on UK Amazon.
Is it this one on the UK Store ?
http://tinyurl.com/y8ml9a9o
In my defence it does not scream out a sim card in its specification
though I did notice a description of 4G WiFi on its description.
The main issue I think is that at over £700 including delivery It is
significantly more expensive than the tablets I was looking at – about
twice the cost of other PC tablet machines and nearly 3 times as much
as the Asus Chrome Books and 6 times as much as some of the Kindle
options. Even my sim based 64gb iPad was only £450, admittedly a few
years ago now. so I am probably looking at the wrong end of the
market. I am not at all sure I want to pay over £700 for a tablet I
am only going to use occasionally whilst out or on holiday. My main
Desktop machine with 16 GB ram, 512 GB SSD main drive with 4TB
secondary drive which I used every single day only cost me £550 ,
with Windows and Office though it was custom built by an engineer I
know. If I could find a cheaper Tablet option like a Chrome Book at
about £250 with a sim slot I would go for it like a shot.
David Griffith
*From:*Dane Trethowan [mailto:[email protected]]
*Sent:* 15 November 2017 15:28
*To:* Techno-Chat ... Technology Enthusiasm!
*Subject:* Re: [Techno-Chat]: Tablet Computing
I’m sorry to contradict you but all the devices we have been talking
about - including my Samsung Galaxy Book 12 Windows Tablet - do allow
for SIM card data thus they are totally portable so use on a mountain
top, park bench or in a cafe, the choice is yours.
Actually the use of SIM cards in modern day computing goes deeper and
runs wider than I possibly thought, my New HP Probook 404 G3 can also
take a SIM card.
Many of the Android tablets out there naturally take a SIM card too
though - as I said earlier - at present I don’t believe the current
crop of Android tablets are anywhere near up to speed when it comes to
Windows or IOS offerings, even the build isn’t as good.
Will that change? I sincerely hope so but its taking a long time.
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On 16 Nov 2017, at 2:00 am, David Griffith <[email protected]
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The biggest and surprising failing for nearly all of the Android /
Kindle / windows Tablet options out there I see is the failure to
include a Sim option for genuinely mobile computing. WiFi devices may
be feasible for use in cities but quickly grind to a halt when
travelling or when you are in a cottage in the country which does not
have WiFi. I find this extremely odd as it is precisely when I am
away from home and in this situation away from WiFi that I am most
likely to need to use these sorts of devices. If they are portable
devices they should in my mind be most useful if they can be used
wherever there is a mobile signal rather than reliant on clumsily
piggy backing on somebody else’s WiFi.
I started looking at chrome Books but no mobile sim options I can
find, similarly for Windows tablets Kindle tablets and most Android
tablets. This is the strangest lack I find in the mobile tablet
sector at the moment. You could cobble solutions together I suppose by
using Dongles or tethering but elegant this is not.
In these situations only my iPhone and my old iPad Mini with data sim
cut the mustard and provide some web connectivity for me. People are
often surprised that my old iPad can connect to the web anywhere but
this is old not new technology. In ancient times of early Kindle
Keyboard models you could use a data sim but bizarrely no more as
Amazon has completely withdrawn data sim options for Kindle and they
are all WiFi only now. As useful as a choclate teapot on a motorway or
in a country cottage without WiFi.
If anybody can point me to a newer genuinely portable device with this
functionality I would be interested.
David Griffith
*From:*Dane Trethowan [mailto:[email protected]]
*Sent:*14 November 2017 21:15
*To:*[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
*Subject:*[Techno-Chat]: Tablet Computing
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.
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On 10 Nov 2017, at 10:14, Joshua Gregory <[email protected]
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I'll have to take a look at that, thank you!
On
Fri, Nov 10, 2017, 12:07 AM Dane Trethowan
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Hi!
No first hand experience hereas yet.
I've thought about getting a Chromebook to look at and I do
know someone
who uses a Chromebook fulltime, he's totally blind and loves
it, he came
from using an Apple Mac Mini and Voiceover.
Further to this, may I suggest you look up the AFB Access
World magazine.
There you'll find a series of reviews and articles that have
tracked the
Chromebook and the Screen Reading technology.
On 11/10/2017 1:34 PM, Joshua Gregory wrote:
>
> Hello,
> I was wondering if anybody has had any experiences with
Chromebooks
> and the chromevox screen reader. What were your experiences?
Did you
> like it, did you not? Was there anything that stood out to
you in
> comparison to, say, windows and nvda or narrator? Thanks
very much!
>
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