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On Sep 27, 2015 1:53 PM, "Chris Fowler" <<a href="mailto:cfowler@outpostsentinel.com">cfowler@outpostsentinel.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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>> From: "Pete Hardie" <<a href="mailto:pete.hardie@gmail.com">pete.hardie@gmail.com</a>><br>
>> To: "Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts" <<a href="mailto:ale@ale.org">ale@ale.org</a>><br>
>> Sent: Saturday, September 26, 2015 11:16:39 AM<br>
>> Subject: Re: [ale] Favorite Android small form factor tablet & prices<br>
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>> Azpen el-cheapo 7-inch ($40 at Microcenter). Not rooted<br>
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> A few years ago when the first 4.1 at $99 tablets were announced I bought one. What I learned was that the amount of RAM is crucial. 512mb of memory was useless. It was a dog. As apps became more advanced it just go slower. Fry's sent out a promo code email this morning and there are a few on sale. One has 512 mb of ram. Why? How many of those actually end up being dumped due to lack of resources.<br>
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> One of my favs is the Hisense Sero 7 Pro. I bought my daughter one in 2012 at Wal-Mart. She destroyed the USB micro and they replaced it. She destroyed it again and I simply soldered two wires inside and ran them outside via a hole I drilled in the back. I then put Anderson Power Poles on the wire and made her a USB A to PP cable. She is still using it and it still runs great.<br>
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> I use a Nexus 7 next gen with LTE on Verizon. Works well too.<br>
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> Today, any 7" tablet at $99 should be a great tablet and work well.<br>
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<p dir="ltr">Last year Microcenter had Asus 7" ME173x for $79, 4 gigs of internal storage, not bad, I use it a remote for my Kodi Pi Media Player mainly using Yatse, so that when mu kids are over I can watch my shows and Frozen for the 500th time. I also use as a e-reader too. </p>
<p dir="ltr">Microcenter sold another ASUS tablet for that price that has an Intel chip, sorry it's powered off so I don't know the model number. I bought for the kids, but they say it's slow.</p>
<p dir="ltr">One thing both of these tablets do is use the storage as ram. So you never want to fill up the storage. </p>
<p dir="ltr">The biggest thing I hate about Android phones and tablets is that you can't upgrade them, yes if root them. I really wish could just update.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Oh, i did buy a really cheap tablet from TigerDirect, becareful. A lot of these cheap tablet use their own store, which have very outdate and crappy software.</p>