Budget Windows Tablet

Nate75

Nate75

Nate75

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Hi.

Looking to buy a Windows Tablet today and hoping for some advice?

It's down to these 2 at around £200

HP Pavilion x2 10-n000na Atom 10" 2GB 32GB Touch Laptop

or

Lenovo YOGA 300 11.6" Intel Cel 2GB 32GB Convertible Laptop.

The HP uses an Atom which is a quad at 1.3GHz and the Lenovo uses a dual core Celeron at 2.2Ghz. CPU BOSS rates the Atom slightly better than the Celeron and I gather it's newer tech and uses less power.

The Lenovo has a slightly bigger screen.

I was about to buy the Lenovo however the price has just gone up by £30 so now I am really not sure which to get.

If anyone owns these or has an opinion on which is better it would be appreciated.

Thanks.
 
I have just ordered a Cube I7 Stylus which uses a Core M 5Y10 processor in it, has 4GB of RAM and 64GB M2 SSD in it. It's a bit of a gamble as it's a relatively unknown Chinese manufacturer over here in the UK, but for the price I paid which was just over £200 just for the tablet (£230 with the keyboard dock) from the reviews that I've read about it looks like a decent option to me.
 
nick_000000 said:
I have just ordered a Cube I7 Stylus which uses a Core M 5Y10 processor in it, has 4GB of RAM and 64GB M2 SSD in it. It's a bit of a gamble as it's a relatively unknown Chinese manufacturer over here in the UK, but for the price I paid which was just over £200 just for the tablet (£230 with the keyboard dock) from the reviews that I've read about it looks like a decent option to me.
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I have this tablet. Its amazing performance per buck like nothing else comes close. Aliexpress has it on sale on 11/11 for $285. SSD is replaceable too and cpu is far far faster than atoms + 4gb ram is nice.

What will you be using it for as that will help to decide, ie just movies and internet means you want an atom as battery life is far better.
 
Thanks for the replies.

Yes that machine does look fantastic!

The primary use is so I can move my monster gaming laptop upstairs which I bought from OCUK. It still runs great and is a nice bit of kit but with a baby on the way I don't want it in the living room anymore, it's quite cumbersome.

I was originally going to get an Apple Air as primary use will be surfing, streaming films/tv and light Office use. The reason the Air was no good is I wanted to have Steam running on it also. Any light gaming would be a bonus but I could not even find a way to use the Steam Link box to stream to the Air and the client is not available for iOS so that was the end of that idea.

To summarise:

Surfing
Streaming
Light Office use
Light gaming
 
Nate75 said:
Thanks for the replies.

To summarise:

Surfing
Streaming
Light Office use
Light gaming
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The atom chips will probably do for the first three but I doubt it for light gaming. I had an acer w510 which to be fair was a cloverfield atom chip and it couldn't do any light gaming but that was a first gen hybrid windows tablet. Baytrail might be slightly better and the newer Atom X5 & X7 chips might be able to do a bit of light gaming, but I haven't really seen many cheap/competitive offerings for tablets with the newer X5 & X7 CPUs available in the UK yet. That's why I've taken a punt and gone for the Cube I7 stylus with the Core M processor, it might not have the amazing battery life of the Atom chips but it should be able to do a bit of light gaming and for £230 I don't think you can go too wrong as similar spec tablet PCs are priced at £500. The Core M might put out a little bit more heat and get a bit toasty though...
 
For surfing the i7 is nice and fast full 1080p screen is lovely and with 4gb ram chrome is happy enough having many tabs open and its not too heavy. My atom tablets while they run chrome ok perform much better with edge due to limited ram.
Streaming all the devices should be able to stream everything you would ever need (bar 4k ofc) the stylus i7 does have hdmi out which is a bonus but the battery isnt amazing as its essentially a laptop cpu not a tablet cpu so ~ 5hours would be expected where as my atoms are closer to 9 and the one you linked to claims 12.

Light office use once again atoms should perform well enough but take note the atom you have mentioned has a relatively low res screen which would be fine just not great for text editing and such with large documents you will lose screen real estate.

Light gaming I am currently playing through HL2 @ 50-90 fps @ 1080p (mostly high settings ) with my stylus and an xbox controller plugged in works great and can do steam streaming well too for more demanding games (no 5ghz wifi though). Where as I think atom tablets would be hitting ~ 40fps at 720p to give a bit of a yard stick to measure with.

Few gotchas with stylus i7 I feel I should say :
a) there is a chance you will get a dodgy copy of windows activated by KMS.
b) early batches had an issue where wifi would interfere with the ssd, this is easily solveable by insulating it with some tap or what have you but its not nice to have to open tablet on day one, this has been solved in later batches.
c)My screen has an air bubble which comes and goes which is annoying but not worth the effort of sending back to china.

There is a decent thread on this tablet on xda developers where people have made custom bios to do some throttling etc.

Also look at refurb Dell venue pros you can get a
Dell Venue 11 Pro (5130) Intel Atom Z3775D 1.49GHz 2Gb 32Gb 10.8″ HD 1yr WTY MLL600 for £99.99 + VAT and
Venue 11 Pro (7130) i5-4210Y 1.5GHz 4Gb 128Gb 10.8″ FHD 1yr WTY MLL881 for £195.99 + VAT
(Cant post link as Im not 100% sure they arent competitors even though they only deal with dell refurbs).
 
Some great information there - it's very much appreciated.

I'm kinda glad now that the store I reserved the Lenovo at last night raised the price by £30 this morning...

Cheers.
 
There's an atom hybrid device based on the X5-8300 that looks similar to the Lenovo that you were looking at is the VOYO A1 PLUS Ultimate which is available for presale/pre-order for less than £200. Looks like an interesting device has 4GB of RAM and 64GB eMMC but it doesn't look like it's been released yet. There are no reviews yet, but it's 11.6" though so that might suit you better if you preferred the look of the Lenovo....
 
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