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No, not the Ben Cousins type. lol.

I'm looking at getting an Android tablet as opposed to a laptop - mainly for accessibility and less loading time (and porn).

And given that the O/S is open source, there have been many different manufacturers using it and producing there own variant of hardware to compete on the market.

I've done some research on what's out there. But nothing really jumps at me as 'The Best Tablet' on the market. Although there are some good deals out there on 'Near new' and 'hardly used' tablets.

So I'd like other peoples opinions on what to look for and what they've heard.

Please note, The IPad is not an option.

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the ones that jumped out at me were the sony S, galaxy tab and motorola xoom. Considering that it wont be used for work and shit, something thats affordable would be nice.

There are heaps that are coming out, but the companies wanna try milk the releases with minor tech upgrades.

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The prime is near a grand to buy. 800 is off ebay.

the windows 7 tablet is like 1.5 grand.

I dont want a laptop, to get the response time from a lap top that i would from a tablet, it'd cost me a fortune. Solid state drives and the like.

The reason to stay away from the cheaper ones is that you don't get updates from the company. the cheaper ones run an old operating system. - so your right about the running of apps on the older firmwares - some might not work.

the ones that i named before are very similar to each other.

probably the only time I'd get a real cheap one is if it used the same parts as a brand name tablet. I'd flash the no name with the brand name and off i go. But then you void warranty.

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They are a bit too late to the party dont you think?

Not really, the market has only really taken off recently.

The thing which is really in Microsoft's favour is its the easiest to develop for. There are millions of .NET developers out there, and the same application can very easily operate on desktop, tablet, and mobile with very little differences in code. Similar things an be said about Apple but the cross platform is still easier with microsoft, and there are way more .NET developers than objective C or w/e crap apple uses.

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Surface Pro 2, tempted. But quite pricey and lacks 4G.

Dell Venue 11 Pro, quite similar, but may have 4G and may be cheaper, very tempted.

been looking to get something along the lines of these for a while, but nothing has really met my requirements until these

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