Windows tablet - best for around £200

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Hey all,

Have been looking to get a windows based tablet as I've been given VCDS for my birthday (vag car diagnostic software) and don't want to cart around a laptop to use it.

So far I've come across the linx 1010b, and also a Cube iWork 10 (this is a ebay only one so far and possibly from China). The advantage of the cube over the linx is twice the ram and twice the storage however it is also £40 more.

Can anyone offer any other suggestions or perhaps comment on the tablet they have?

Thanks

Edit : Perhaps I should spend a bit more and get a used surface pro?
 
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Xiaomi MiPad 2 would appear to be the best Chinese Windows tablet. The Teclast X98 Plus might also be an option.

For a much lower price, the Chuwi Vi8 Plus looks like it would be a solid choice.
 
How about the Lenovo Miix 300 @ £120 from John Lewis? Quad core atom, detachable keyboard, 2gb ram 32gb storage windows 10 with office 365.

They also have the 64Gb one for £179
 
How about the Lenovo Miix 300 @ £120 from John Lewis? Quad core atom, detachable keyboard, 2gb ram 32gb storage windows 10 with office 365.

They also have the 64Gb one for £179

Holy moly at £59 for 32gb of extra storage! They're going for apple memory pricing structure here!

Xiaomi MiPad 2 would appear to be the best Chinese Windows tablet. The Teclast X98 Plus might also be an option.

For a much lower price, the Chuwi Vi8 Plus looks like it would be a solid choice.

Thanks for these will take a look at some reviews when I've sorted dinner :)

How about a dell,

http://outlet.euro.dell.com/Online/...dfh1&l=en&s=dfh&dgc=IR&cid=296386&lid=5667687

The one at nearly 300 looks good value too me but it is a bit over budget.

Here is a review; http://www.notebookcheck.net/Dell-Venue-11-Pro-7140-Convertible-Tablet-Review.133634.0.html

Maybe the cheaper one is also a good option?

The £300 one looks good value until you add VAT on top. It's then massively over budget but thanks for the outlet link I'll have a browse

Am I wasting my time looking for one with 4gb of RAM? I realise 2gb is ample on one of these but as far as memory goes more is better for sure!
 
Quite like the Toshiba Click 10 I have - though a bit better storage and 4GB instead of 2GB of RAM would have been nice but for most tablet type uses it gets by with 2GB fine - I got it really cheap through work though - probably wouldn't buy one at more than £200.
 
checked out the mi pad 2?

Nice looking thing, but lack of standard usb ports is a problem! I need a normal USB port for the diagnostics lead! Oh and no SD card slot for expansion :(

Quite like the Toshiba Click 10 I have - though a bit better storage and 4GB instead of 2GB of RAM would have been nice but for most tablet type uses it gets by with 2GB fine - I got it really cheap through work though - probably wouldn't buy one at more than £200.

Will take a look at this also thanks :)
 
yeh it does suck for ports
its mostly just a nice screen, and u can get them with dual boot which is pretty sweet

maybe a Chuwi? they have a few diff models with ports and sd card etc
 
I've just ordered a 3g x98 plus. Considered the pro and the cube i7 stylus, but the longer battery life of the plus won it over. Hopefully it will be good enough for general browsing, word processing and desktop use.

I also bought a 2 port usb otg adapter with it. All in was £152. Hopefully it won't take too long to arrive from China.
 
I've just ordered a 3g x98 plus. Considered the pro and the cube i7 stylus, but the longer battery life of the plus won it over. Hopefully it will be good enough for general browsing, word processing and desktop use.

I also bought a 2 port usb otg adapter with it. All in was £152. Hopefully it won't take too long to arrive from China.

Let me know how you get on with it when it turns up if you don't mind please mate :)
 
Ordered a Chuwi Hi10 in February, and been very happy with it over the past couple of months I've had it.

Got mine from gearbest: http://www.gearbest.com/tablet-pcs/pp_244798.html and it took about 2-3 weeks to get to me from ordered (can't remember exactly) on free delivery. Didn't get hit for VAT on import, but obviously this is pot luck. Can't say whether the service is better or worse than other Chinese resellers, as have only used this one.

The screen is brilliant - 1920x1200 at 10 inches is always going to be sharp, but I can see some people finding icons, etc too small without using scaling in Windows and other apps, so you're reliant on how good the apps you'll be using are at handling high DPI settings. Touchscreen is reliable enough, and it came with a perfectly pre-fitted screen protector that's a fingerprint magnet, but I haven't taken it off yet so can't say if the screen underneath is better or not.

The tablet is very responsive and has done everything I've asked of it, provided you're realistic. You are not going to be running Crysis on it, and asking it to do supercomputer calculations will be stupid, but for basic internet, MS Office, and other "light/normal" usage it's perfect. I normally have one, two or three internet tabs open in Edge and it flies, but last night one of those was an ad-filled page and the whole tablet slowed down, Task Manager showed the tab was using over 2GB of RAM. Closed that tab and it went back to nice and fast. Even managed to run Heaven Benchmark at 1080p with Ultra quality and Extreme tesselation without crashing! Only 1 - 1.8 FPS, but it still ran with crashing or catching fire. Battery life seems pretty good to me too, with a few hours watching films on it of an evening barely making a dent into the battery (generally still 80% showing after a couple of films with the brightness on lowest). The tablet's also pretty light, certainly not noticeably different to the first gen Nexus 7 I was replacing, which is my only frame of reference outside Smartphones or laptops/desktops.

The cameras on the Chuwi Hi10 are rubbish, both front and back are suitable for Skype in good light only, forget anything else. The speakers are also pretty rubbish and not very loud even at 100%, but the headphone socket works fine so I just use headphones when watching Netflix, etc.

Connectivity is where the Chuwi really shines - it's got a full sized USB2 port, a full sized USB3 port, a mini HDMI port, microSD slot and a microUSB port that's used for charging or USBOTG. I've had issues getting high speed microSD cards being recognised (a SanDisk Ultra 64GB UHC1 card wouldn't work, but a regular 32GB Class 10 works perfectly). Not had a problem with the WiFi, and it's streamed and played some 4K videos fine from my NAS.

I've used it so far with an Anker USB3 to USB3 hub with Gigabit ethernet port, a microHDMI to full HDMI cable, a cheap eBay microHDMI to VGA adapter, a USB powered DVD writer, and any number of USB2/3 USB sticks and external 2.5" drives, and not had a problem with any of them - worked seamlessly.

I haven't tried any of the other suggestions in the thread, so can't say which is better or worse, but I'm quick to find faults with tech things and I've been very impressed and happy with my Chuwi. The front and back don't have the quality feel that, say, a recent iPad has, but for a cheap and light tablet it does feel pretty solid. I've certainly never felt the need to be cautious handling it in case I break it.

Overall, very, very happy with my £127 tablet and would recommend if the specs sound like they'll fit your purposes. :D
 
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^^ I've had good compatibility with the 64GB Kingston UHS-I/MicroSDXC 1/10 and the older non UHS version of it - the SanDisk Ultra/Extreme can perform a little better in some areas but seem more fussy what they work in. Overall the SanDisk seem better for DSLR type cameras or smart phones with high end cameras and the Kingston a but better for larger file transfers on a tablet/PC environment.
 
Got the Chuwi Hi8 yesterday. Took 2 weeks delivery from China, using gearbest. I got worried when local delivery was with Yodel. They had it for 3 days, but at least it was delivered in one piece.

Very impressed with the build quality of this thing. For £65, it's an amazing piece of kit. Feels premium in the hand. It came with dual boot win10/android, but being only 32gb storage, both had inadequate space assigned to them. Android had about 6gb free. So used a guide to flash android only, as this one's for my son. When I get my teclast x98 plus, I intend on using win10 predominantly.
 
Let me know how you get on with it when it turns up if you don't mind please mate :)

Received this yesterday. Took a little longer to arrive from BG (about 3 weeks in total).

The windows side of things I'm quite happy with. I ordered a 4 port USB OTG adapter to go with it, and I can use my bluetooth keyboard, usb mouse and other bits to log on to work - it functions pretty much like a laptop. Performance is adequate, as you'd expect from an atom processor.

The android side of things I'm not so pleased with. Seems to be quite slow with a lot of lag, and Play Store randomly crashes far too often. I believe there are some custom roms, but I'm not sure if they allow you to keep the dual boot aspect.

My sim card works perfectly. Only 3G though.
 
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