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So, I'm thinking of making a frivolous purchase this Christmas. I'd like to snag a smaller form factor tablet for myself. I've owned an iPad before (3G 64GB) and it was just too much money tied up in something I didn't use very often. I found myself just pulling out my trusty MBA most of the time. So, not really being up to speed on the latest and greatest in tablets, does anyone have any recommendations, warnings or observations about the current crop of tablets in the 7"-ish size?
I'd like to be able to:
-Interact with work email via Outlook Web Access, so it would need to support RSA soft tokens
-Add a few other email accounts (gmail & .Mac)
-View MS Excel and Word documents and maybe do some casual editing - nothing fancy
-View photos, listen to mp3's and watch video in .mp4/.m4v ie: Handbrake converted. No real need for wild HD resolutions
-Read Kindle, Barnes & Noble and any Opensource type book formats
-I don't care about Flash video, though being able to watch a YouTube video here and there would be nice
-I don't care about gaming other than casual stuff like Scrabble and Solitaire
-I have no loyalty to OS's (other than AIX and OSX) so as long as the OS isn't something dead like Palm or Blackberry, I'm good with it
-I don't need access to a billion apps, just boring stuff like news, weather, dictionary, etc...
-Price range $200~$300
Any thoughts?
Thanks,
Dave
I'd like to be able to:
-Interact with work email via Outlook Web Access, so it would need to support RSA soft tokens
-Add a few other email accounts (gmail & .Mac)
-View MS Excel and Word documents and maybe do some casual editing - nothing fancy
-View photos, listen to mp3's and watch video in .mp4/.m4v ie: Handbrake converted. No real need for wild HD resolutions
-Read Kindle, Barnes & Noble and any Opensource type book formats
-I don't care about Flash video, though being able to watch a YouTube video here and there would be nice
-I don't care about gaming other than casual stuff like Scrabble and Solitaire
-I have no loyalty to OS's (other than AIX and OSX) so as long as the OS isn't something dead like Palm or Blackberry, I'm good with it
-I don't need access to a billion apps, just boring stuff like news, weather, dictionary, etc...
-Price range $200~$300
Any thoughts?
Thanks,
Dave