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Jan 17, 2015 10:45:07 GMT -5
Post by 2lplvr on Jan 17, 2015 10:45:07 GMT -5
I have gone back and forth about tablets/phone/laptops My dh has a surface that was just painful to use. My phone is too small to type on for just surfing/games/pinterest. Laptop is too big. Answer Lenovo Yoga You can hold it like a book, it has a camera and you can do stuff if you need to We are not Apple people
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BC
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Post by BC on Jan 17, 2015 11:45:42 GMT -5
I've never heard of that one. Did you get it? I think that my son's laptop is lenova brand. Have you looked at costco? They had some tablets on good sales last month there. Our son wanted one for his college classes (ordering ebooks is much less expensive!), and so we checked costco, and we were able to get him a good one for $200. I can't remember exactly, but I think that it was originally $400somethng. Samsung brand. What kind of surface did your husband have? I think that I must have a different one than the one that he had. I love mine. It has completely replaced my laptop. The only thing that it doesn't have is a disk drive, but I haven't had a need for a disk drive yet, so that's okay. I still have my laptop should I need to use a disk drive for anything. It has a camera too. Did he have a keyboard for his? If not, maybe that was the issue? I don't know if you remember what mine looks like or not. I got a keyboard for mine, and it feels just like a computer to me, only more compact and more mobile. Perhaps, I have a different version than he did though. Oh, and mine has windows 8.1 . Maybe his had windows 8? I've heard that folks don't like windows 8 very much. I was expecting a huge learning curve b/c I've heard so many bad things about windows 8, but I haven't noticed any difference at all. It's just windows to me. I had windows 7 before, and now this is windows 8.1, and it's almost identical to me. My husband said that most folks like 8.1 better than 8, which is why they made the changes. Maybe he had 8? Anyway, good luck! I never thought that I was a tablet person, but it's made things so much easier...I can't imagine ever going back. Hope you were able to find one that you love.
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BC
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Jan 17, 2015 12:15:41 GMT -5
Post by BC on Jan 17, 2015 12:15:41 GMT -5
I just asked my husband, and he said that the surface 2 is smaller and runs 'windows RT' instead of windows 8.1. He said that the RT isn't as good. Just thought that I'd share that in case you wanted to check out the Surface Pro 3. (That's what I have). My husband said that he's never heard of the yoga thing...he's going to look it up, lol. (I couldn't tell by your post if that was something that you'd already decided on or not. If so, hope you love it!)
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Jan 17, 2015 12:23:07 GMT -5
Post by 2lplvr on Jan 17, 2015 12:23:07 GMT -5
dh has the pro, screen was just too small have the yoga love the yoga!! it was less than $400
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BC
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Jan 18, 2015 9:10:51 GMT -5
Post by BC on Jan 18, 2015 9:10:51 GMT -5
Yay
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Jan 19, 2015 8:07:03 GMT -5
Post by Elliefunt - Debbie on Jan 19, 2015 8:07:03 GMT -5
We have the Galaxy Tab. I'm the only one who uses it now. The kids share a Lenovo laptop G510. They complain about it being slow for watching videos online but I think it's only when our cable is acting up.
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Jan 19, 2015 9:50:03 GMT -5
Post by jdpudge on Jan 19, 2015 9:50:03 GMT -5
Dh has both the Samsung Galaxy Note 2 (a larger phone)... and recently he purchased one of the new Samsung tablets and REALLY likes both. I can ask him anything you'd like to know.
Whoops... hadn't read all the replies... just saw you've already purchased something. Hope you really like it.
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