[ale] Ultra cheap tablet discussion. Are they useful or can they be made useful?

[Leam Hall]

Not until you mentioned it. Very nice! Though the Pinebook might be 
nicer. I need a decent laptop, but not anything super powerful. Do you 
have any experience with their laptops, or the company in general?



On 6/28/20 9:09 AM, Jonathan Meek via Ale wrote:
> Have you considered the PineTab?
> 
> https://www.pine64.org/pinetab/
> It may not be ultra cheap but probably lands as cheap.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Jonathan
> 
>> On Jun 27, 2020, at 9:56 PM, Boris Borisov via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
>>
>> 
>> The Amazon's 7 inch tablet should have good hardware. It is cheap but 
>> you have to root it. There is plenty info on the web's.
>>
>> From my experience once you put Google account on the cheapo tablet 
>> and that makes it gradually slowing down to crawling speeds.
>>
>> The more ram the better. I have an old one with single core and 1GB 
>> ram and works faster than supposedly 4 core with 512 MB. Yes I have 
>> bought all kinds of junk
>>
>> But without updates becomes obsolete.
>>
>> So much disposable hardware nowdays.
>>
>> On Sat, Jun 27, 2020, 9:04 PM Jim Kinney via Ale <ale at ale.org 
>> <mailto:ale at ale.org>> wrote:
>>
>>     I've got several. They are total junk. I've not been able to get
>>     deep enough to install anything else. Slow. Under powered. Crappy
>>     screens. Glued shut so opening will make it nearly impossible to
>>     reassemble.
>>
>>     I got an Acer with an intel cpu and installed a Linux distro. Has
>>     a stylus that takes a 4A battery. $150?? Been a while. Used that
>>     for overseas travel in the event I couldn't get back in with it.
>>     Passable.
>>
>>     On June 27, 2020 6:28:19 PM EDT, "Beddingfield, Allen via Ale"
>>     <ale at ale.org <mailto:ale at ale.org>> wrote:
>>
>>         For a couple of years now, I have been seeing these really cheap ($40 to $50) Android tablets in Wal-Mart, dollar stores, and places that normally don't even sell electronics.  Most of them are some brand no one has heard of, or a shameless re-licensing of old school brands like RCA or Polaroid.  I know they are going to be the cheapest of Chinese made junk, but how bad are they?  Would they be usable at all for basic web browsing?  I notice that most of them are running Android 5.0 or 6 .0.  Have any of you played with any of these, or investigated upgrading the OS on them?
>>         Allen B.
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