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1/11/13 at 9:13pm

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My fiance is currently using a 5 year old laptop. she uses it for surfing the web, listening to music and looking at pictures. for what she would use it for what's the best tablet out there? (we're not rich ether so cheaper is nice to)

We don't have smart phones so no iphone to go with the ipad.

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1/11/13 at 9:20pm

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Well I mean whats your budget? You can find some good deals on last gen tablets, or used tablets depending on your budget. You can get latest gen for like $500ish though if you can afford that.

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1/11/13 at 9:26pm

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we really don't know,

as far as I know the ipad is the most expensive but we don't own any other apple product.

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1/11/13 at 9:27pm

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I'd suggest getting a refurbished iPad 2 from the Apple online store.

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1/11/13 at 9:33pm

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Apple Ipad ( or MIni) is a great choice. If you don't want that, try Nexus 10 or kindle fire. I have all 3 of them are, neither one of them are bad choices

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1/14/13 at 9:58am

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N10 for sure if you can afford it. N7 if you cannot. No reason to overpay for (cr)Apple products.

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1/15/13 at 9:35am

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Candidate for worst advice and post of tablet computers forum goes to....

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Originally Posted by Mr Bear

N10 for sure if you can afford it. N7 if you cannot. No reason to overpay for (cr)Apple products.

My answer, it depends.

A lot of people I've recommended Nexus tablets and Transformers to, end up sitting on a shelf gathering dust. Brother in law bought two Transformer TF101s at 2011 Black Friday for him and his wife. They love their Galaxy S3's and Android apps and games but for some reason they just haven't fallen in love with the Transformers. They gather dust.

Friend bought my Nexus off me at an extreme discount and it gathers dust.

Of course I know two guys that got Nexus 7's that wouldn't part with them if a fire started but I know a lot more with Android tablets gathering dust. The worst part is, all of them don't want to let my ipad go once they get their hands on it. But it's an investment. You cannot side load applications so you HAVE to pay for the quality. You'll easily dump $50-75 in apps alone to get it to the functional use you need. It doesn't even come with weather and a calculator standard.

But trust me, if you get your fiancé an ipad or ipad mini, she WILL love and use it. Without question. Get her a Nexus and there's a chance, not a guarantee but still a chance that it will gather dust.

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1/15/13 at 9:40am

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I bought an Ultrabook this year to my wife and she was like OMG! She really liked it better then her old notebook. Then this year my dad came to visit and he brought her a Ipad 2 as present and now she barely touch the ultrabook...

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1/15/13 at 10:14am

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Quote:

Originally Posted by TrollingThunder

Candidate for worst advice and post of tablet computers forum goes to....
My answer, it depends.

A lot of people I've recommended Nexus tablets and Transformers to, end up sitting on a shelf gathering dust. Brother in law bought two Transformer TF101s at 2011 Black Friday for him and his wife. They love their Galaxy S3's and Android apps and games but for some reason they just haven't fallen in love with the Transformers. They gather dust.

Friend bought my Nexus off me at an extreme discount and it gathers dust.

Of course I know two guys that got Nexus 7's that wouldn't part with them if a fire started but I know a lot more with Android tablets gathering dust. The worst part is, all of them don't want to let my ipad go once they get their hands on it. But it's an investment. You cannot side load applications so you HAVE to pay for the quality. You'll easily dump $50-75 in apps alone to get it to the functional use you need. It doesn't even come with weather and a calculator standard.

But trust me, if you get your fiancé an ipad or ipad mini, she WILL love and use it. Without question. Get her a Nexus and there's a chance, not a guarantee but still a chance that it will gather dust.

I tend to have a problem with apple products because of this, I have to pay $300-$400 for the smallest storage with the least amount of features. and then have to pay more money to get it "functional" . . . . If, we had iphones and already had aps then I would be more inclined to get the ipad, but not right now.

My friend has an I pad maybe I'll see if my fiancée (if you're going to put the accent match the gender of the word

) can borrow it for a little.
Edited by remnant - 1/15/13 at 10:17am

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1/16/13 at 7:50am

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how about windows 8 based tablets?

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