Dear Girlfriend community
It was a few years ago when Lidl was offering a SilverCrest Windows Tablet with keyboard… As my mother's laptop blew out of the last hole and with Windows Vista, it cost us a little bit of money to take care of her the chic thing to buy your birthday…
The advantages were obvious! All my mother had in mind was to watch videos on YouTube and write on the internet on her forum… Why use a chunky thing with annoying fan for it if it also elegant and mobile goes.
The two years went well but the tablet was partially plagued with hangers. Later it had phases where it did not want to tackle anymore and only the next day wanted to work in a magical way and then suddenly… Radio silence… During the autopsy of the device, we made a motherboard error and buried it in a quiet spot behind the house where it may rest now.
I made the old laptop back up with Ubuntu for the time, but it was not that practical if it was going to be somewhere else than in the dining room because the battery was broken and it always needed a power supply…
Then we decided to try again. Online we found a Lenovo Tablet which looked very similar to Lidl's just this time in silver, faster and better. It seemed like a real luxury model as far as Windows tablet / laptop hybrid was concerned.
It has been hung up only once and then it was quickly back on its feet but now makes it all at once… Partly it can't turn on like the old and brings a boat news like "Automatic Repair" before it Turning on sleep again lays like an annoyed teenager in the morning of a math.
Here is my question. What are your experiences with these tablet / laprop hybrids which have a detachable keyboard… I want to limit myself to the question only to those with Windows so no Android or iOS…
Did you have similar experiences? Are not you also reliable turn on or hang sometimes? And most of all, the most important question is the normal for these hybrids, or are they typically plagued by such problems?
So I myself have an Acer switch (do not ask me exactly what one) as a second device next to my Dell XPS 13. The device has a keyboard and a later built-in 2 TB HDD in the keyboard housing. I have no problems, but it is of course compared to my XPS 13 no real line cannon (it's just over 1000 euro difference in purchase, so justified) but for Youtube, surf, etc. Is it fully sufficient. The battery life is also ok with 3-4 hours.
In general, it is just that Windows 10 calls for more and more power, which of course just leads to such Tablets then quite quickly to problems.
That the devices do not start at least at a manufacturer like Lenovo should not happen. Here's just the question of how much the tablet has cost, because it still holds true "You get what you pay for".
The tablet was in the pricerange of 230 to 250 euro clearly not exactly expensive but I think the price should do his job, of course, reliable. Surfing is not that demanding, and we did not expect or plan on gaming anyway. This is not really about the performance but about whether this type of tablet is curse or blessing or whether it should work.
It should work, but the price is just the bare minimum. And just then the experience has shown that it's just problematic. At the price, the manufacturers also have to save on everything that goes, and of course that also affects the quality. The Convertible concept works very well in itself (see the Surface Pro series), but you also have to pay some money for it. I think so at 400 - 500 euro you get already devices that are quite reliable for the intended area.
Recently, I also looked for a mobile device with which I can move freely in the household. At Saturn I found a feather-light laptop (because without optical LW).
There's currently a very limited W10 S installed, which would restrict me too much. Next time I'm in the electronics market, 250 euro go over the counter. As a user-friendly, virus-free and spy-free OS I have Linux Mint Cinnamon (alternatively Ubuntu) out. Even the seller advised me against W10 (S) - fortunately there's the free world, in which you can live perfectly without restrictions.
Sure would be synonymous a way n other OS on it to pull… But I think my mother would not agree.
Have the last few days also searched for a Windowstablet for the university. But I stayed with my android, because (…).
What I noticed in the search in your price range is:
Although the tablets have good CPUs but little ram and very little memory.
All other components are so-so too.
Windows just needs 4GB Ram. It takes min. 64GB memory. Everything under it will not work. A Lidl Tablet is a cheap tablet. A cheap tablet will, as the name suggests, have not built anything good. Extensive surfing alone can be problematic. That's why Windows always means: If you do not want to spend 500 euro, take Android. 1) the updates are much smaller, 2) the Ram is less busy.
Whether removable keyboard or not, that is completely unimportant, 200-300 Euro tablets with the Win OS are a waste of money. It is suitable as a good gift for children, because they are never addicted to gamers
I do not understand the people who have a problem with it because the memory is being used.
A busy memory is nothing bad - it is good that it is used, otherwise it would be a waste anyway.
Of course, he should not be "overloaded", but busy is nothing bad.
Yeah, if you are on the limit all the time with the RAM is definitely not useful. Then you have no more reserves. And the browsers need a lot of RAM today, my Chrome is just 2 open tabs already with 1 GB of RAM. If I'm working / surfing that way then it's easy to get 20 to 30 or even more.
I would just put it before fait accompli. It does not really matter what the interface looks like when you double-click on the browser icon. And if you install, for example, KDE as a surface, the operation is also somewhat similar to Windows.
It's about the performance that the OS draws… Not the look.
Well for someone who knows halfway about the matter, the surface of the system does not really matter. But for someone who has no idea about it and just wants to use it, a world collapses when the button for "the internet" or the shutdown button is no longer in the same place.
Retirees and beginners get on very well with Mint, because Windows looks like a well-made copy of Mint.
Try that.
With Linux, you quickly forgot all the Windows problems. It's easy - with much better equipment.
To be honest, it was easier to explain to my mother Ubuntu simply because it worked more stable on the laptop and the button for "The Internet" was quite clearly fixed on the left side of the taskbar. Mint was more similar to Windows, but not so stable. For example, Google Chrome did not work there… And now try explaining to parents that an app does not work… You just come across misunderstandings xD
But apart from that, Ubuntu was just tidier and more visually appealing than Mint. Windows is in my opinion, but not the most user-friendly.
I think it's cool that you are familiar with the free operating systems, but this is to be recommended for everyone, because Windows already has enormous restrictions, ranging up to espionage.
Linux, on the other hand, has only freedoms under the GNU / GPL license.
