Tablets

Got my Surface 3's in last week. Pardon my desk though, its a zoo at the moment.

Ended up fixing the Nexus 7 tablet. She likes to run it until it is completely discharged for some reason, so what I have deduced to have happened was it was low on charge and she tried updating either the OS or something else and lost power mid-update. Recovering it to factory settings fixed it.

I've been considering getting my first tablet lately. Beyond the usual watch movies/web/blahblah purposes, I want to be able to take notes on it as effectively as a laptop. I'm in grad school so I'd also like to read & highlight academic journal articles. I'll still use my laptop for writing, but I'm thinking a tablet would be nice to take to meetings and classes so I don't have to lug around my laptop.

I use evernote, which syncs between devices, so I'm guessing notetaking should be fine. I use dropbox to store all my docs, so using a tablet to read/highlight then using those PDFs on the laptop for writing seems like it'd work fine. However, I've never highlighted on a tablet before so I don't know how that'll go.

Absolute requirements are easy note taking in class/meetings and the ability to comfortably highlight PDFs. Without that, it's not worth my $. It also has to be 1080res, and higher is a bonus.

It seems like almost any tablet would be fine for those purposes, but I've never tried it. Can anyone help a brother out? It has to be android. Our lab uses a surface pro, and it kept auto updating in the middle of study runs, then took us 30 minutes to figure out how to turn off automatic updates by editing the gd registry or something, so I immediately decided windows can go fuck itself. And I don't want a tablet with handcuffs, so no iOS.

Anyway, I was looking at galaxy s tab because they're sexy as hell, esp the reso, but then saw the note pro and thought handwriting notes would be cool. But that all is probably overkill, no? Is 10 inch the sweet spot for mobility and screen size for note taking?

I've never owned a tab so I feel like I should get something cheap until I know I'll make good use of it and know what specs I really want. But I'm hoping for some experience of others to guide me.

I just finished a year of grad school and I took all my notes on my surface pro using onenote. They updated onenote a few months ago and the app is way better than it used to be imo. I am partial to the surface because I use matlab and some other statistics software quite a bit and really like being able to atleast do some of that work without being at my desktop.

I wouldn't want anything bigger than 10 inch personally beyond that it starts to feel too clunky as a tablet imo. Biggest thing I think is to make sure whatever you get has a digitizer if you are going to be using it for lots of notes.

After all the decision making I did about getting a Nexus 7, I went and got an LG G Pad 8.3. I had been waiting for Google I/O to hopefully see the Nexus 8 come out but it sounds more like late Q3 for its announcement.

So I kept watching Slickdeals to see if a good deal on it would come up. Nothing did. Then, I noticed that the Amazon prices jumped a ton (I guess vendors were dropping the price thinking that Google would make an announcement too?). The 32GB version went from $229 on Amazon to like $279. Then I saw the G Pad on Newegg for $249. I know it's gone as low as like $200 for new before, but I'm running out of time. So I just said fuck it and bought it. It'll be here tomorrow.

The other option was the 7.0, which just came out a couple weeks ago. The only problem is that there are no reviews for it (almost literally; I found ONE YouTube review, but nothing in text). It's also only 8GB, although the $135 price point was pretty good (Newegg via Slickdeals).

Someone mind telling me what the difference is between a Samsung Galaxy Tab and Note is if all the specs are the same (Ram, resolution, size, etc) and if those differences are worth the $100 price bump for web browsing / games / movies?

Wuyley_sl said:

Someone mind telling me what the difference is between a Samsung Galaxy Tab and Note is if all the specs are the same (Ram, resolution, size, etc) and if those differences are worth the $100 price bump for web browsing / games / movies?

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The Note has the little stylus pen for handwriting/drawing on the tablet. The Galaxy Tabs are just a normal tablet. Only real difference

Refurbed 2014 note 10.1 is on slickdeals for $340. I think I'm gonna pull the trigger

Btw, the note is more than just a stylus. Its built around stylus use with lots of cool tricks, can digitize handwriting, etc. Check out a review or the Samsung website.

Searching slickdeals found me the refurb note for $300. Now I am going to go ahead and buy it. LOL damn you Dabamf! I guess I won't be getting 2 boxes of Magic 2015 after all

(2014) Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 - Factory Reconditioned $295 free shipping - Slickdeals.net

I have an original Note tablet(2012 I think?) that I snagged as a refurb for $150 about a year ago and it has been great so far. I don't use the stylus whatsoever, but its a solid tablet even without a need for that feature.(I dont use the stylus at all on my Note 3 phone either)

Sadly the thing that I am must excited about when it comes to the stylus isn't the note taking or drawing, but the fact that I won't have to touch the screen with my hands and thus wont leave fingerprints / smudges all over it.

Is there a difference between refurb and factory reconditioned? $45 for 16gb isn't worth the 32gb version if all other things are equal

Generally, refurb means it was a defective return(DOA usually), fixed, thoroughly retested (usually more stringently than new hardware) and now resold.

Reconditioned means its used, but factory reset and probably tested.

I always prefer refurb to reconditioned. Reconditioned may have some slight wear and tear Whereas I've never seen a refurb that didn't look just like new.

I pulled the trigger on the 2014 note 10.1 refurbed. It shipped today. I'll report back when I've had some time with it, caressing it, making love to it, that sort of thing.

Decent deal on an original 10" Note tablet - $180 refurb

Samsung Galaxy Note Tablet 10.1" Wi-Fi 16GB with S-Pen on eBay Daily Deals

Its a solid tablet. Not state of the art anymore by any means but I have one and it still runs everything I throw at it great. Games, movies, whatever, and has great battery life as well. If you want a cheap 10" tablet that isn't a piece of junk, you can't hardly go wrong.

The tabletthat I ordered came in today and besides the packaging, new OG box instead of original packaging, the tablet is spotless. As for how the actual tablet works besides the screen looking tits (first tablet), I have no idea lol.

So I downloaded Team Viewer to remote in to my computer from my tablet and it is awesome. Is there way that after I remote in and turn on ITunes that I am able to keep the music playing while I do other things on the tablet?

nvidia keeps trying i guess



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