[ale] Favorite Android small form factor tablet & prices

[David Ritchie]

Well Gamestop just had a deal on Asus MeMO 7 tablets for  $40 + 6 for
shipping - it is a responsive unit and if you see these there or else where
at similar prices I can recommend it.

--David
On Sep 27, 2015 3:56 PM, "Chuck Payne" <terrorpup at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Sep 27, 2015 1:53 PM, "Chris Fowler" <cfowler at outpostsentinel.com>
> wrote:
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> >> From: "Pete Hardie" <pete.hardie at gmail.com>
> >> To: "Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts" <ale at ale.org>
> >> Sent: Saturday, September 26, 2015 11:16:39 AM
> >> Subject: Re: [ale] Favorite Android small form factor tablet & prices
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> >> Azpen el-cheapo 7-inch ($40 at Microcenter). Not rooted
> >
> >
> > A few years ago when the first 4.1 at $99 tablets were announced I
> bought one.  What I learned was that the amount of RAM is crucial.  512mb
> of memory was useless.  It was a dog.  As apps became more advanced it just
> go slower.   Fry's sent out a promo code email this morning and there are a
> few on sale.  One has 512 mb of ram.  Why?  How many of those actually end
> up being dumped due to lack of resources.
> >
> > One of my favs is the Hisense Sero 7 Pro.  I bought my daughter one in
> 2012 at Wal-Mart.  She destroyed the USB micro and they replaced it.  She
> destroyed it again and I simply soldered two wires inside and ran them
> outside via a hole I drilled in the back.  I then put Anderson Power Poles
> on the wire and made her a USB A to PP cable.  She is still using it and it
> still runs great.
> >
> > I use a Nexus 7 next gen with LTE on Verizon.  Works well too.
> >
> > Today, any 7" tablet at $99 should be a great tablet and work well.
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> Last year Microcenter had Asus 7" ME173x for $79, 4 gigs of internal
> storage, not bad, I use it a remote for my Kodi Pi Media Player mainly
> using Yatse, so that when mu kids are over I can watch my shows and Frozen
> for the 500th time. I also use as a e-reader too.
>
> Microcenter sold another ASUS tablet for that price that has an Intel
> chip, sorry it's powered off so I don't know the model number. I bought for
> the kids, but they say it's slow.
>
> One thing both of these tablets do is use the storage as ram. So you never
> want to fill up the storage.
>
> The biggest thing I hate about Android phones and tablets is that you
> can't upgrade them, yes if root them. I really wish could just update.
>
> Oh, i did buy a really cheap tablet from TigerDirect, becareful. A lot of
> these cheap tablet use their own store, which have very outdate and crappy
> software.
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