<div dir="ltr">Maybe for myself down the road. Wifeski isn't a power user so she doesn't need all the fancy bells and whistles. Just email and Facebook (and yes I keep trying to get her off of Facebook!).<div><br></div><div>I'm going with the Lenovo for this job. Thanks, William and Khalid for your suggestions.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 26 September 2014 15:34, William Park <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:opengeometry@yahoo.ca" target="_blank">opengeometry@yahoo.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Have you considered those laptops where the screen folds back almost/all<br>
the way?<br>
<br>
You get built-in stand, built-in keyboard/mouse, built-in screen<br>
protector, bigger/upgradeable memory, bigger/upgradeable harddisk/SSD,<br>
Intel/AMD cpu, Windows 8.1, etc. It's a bit heavier, but you don't hold<br>
tablet free-hand that long anyway.<br>
--<br>
William<br>
<br>
On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 11:05:11AM -0400, CrankyOldBugger wrote:<br>
> Wifeski has been saying for some time now that she wants a tablet computer<br>
> as her laptop computer is getting to be a pain to use.<br>
><br>
> I've never bought a tablet other than the Kobo reader (which isn't really a<br>
> tablet). Has anyone had any experiences with the Lenovo A8-50, before I go<br>
> ahead and buy one? I'd prefer to hear from anyone here over the customer<br>
> reviews on Amazon.. This model seems fairly robust for a smaller tablet,<br>
> and under $200.<br>
><br>
> What's like is to keep the laptop at her desk all day, and run around the<br>
> house with the tablet to check emails, FaceBook, etc.<br>
><br>
> I've had good luck with Lenovo laptops so that's why I'm looking up their<br>
> product line for tablets.<br>
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