Originally Posted by
Internaut
Alternatively, if you want to avoid the cost of Office (albeit with RT, not full Windows), the Dell XPS 10 goes pretty cheaply at the moment (£250 in the UK, last time I checked).
In the US, the XPS 10 has been near-constantly on sale on the Dell Outlet, so those who don't mind refurbs might want to check there.
One of my coworkers got a Latitude 10 (full Win8, not RT) and loves it, and while it's a bit pokey compared to the Surface Pro (Atom vs. i5) it is in most other ways a much nicer experience having played with both.
Originally Posted by
msb0b
If buying Android, I would only recommend one of the Nexus devices for the ongoing software support.
I'm not sure it matters as much as it used to; Samsung has gotten much better about updates, and frankly, so far there is not much that has changed since ICS that most folks would care about except Google Now (and many of us find that annoying and creepy, rather than helpful.)
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Personally, if I wanted to buy a tablet right now but didn't HAVE to do so immediately I'd be waiting to see what the pricing was on the GT 3 7.0 and what the next version of the Nexus 7 were like.
If I
had to buy a tablet
right now, I'd bite the bullet and buy a Note 8; it offers more than I need at a higher price than I want to pay, but the screen and CPU on the GT2 7.0 are limiting, as is the lack of an SD card slot on the Nexus 7.