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    Default What do you use your tablet for?

    I was thinking earlier about this. Do people still have a need for a tablet or has the fad passed?

    I have a amazon fire which I was planning to use as an ereader but the screen isn't much bigger than my phone so now it sits dormant. I have an old Motorola Xoom which I have in the kitchen for the odd google when I have left my phone upstairs. I also have a Lenovo Yoga laptop which I can say I've used in tablet mode twice.

    I would say I could happily live without my tablets, what do you use yours for?

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    Default Re: What do you use your tablet for?

    I have an HP stream 7 with windows 10 on. I use it when i go on holidays mostly to watch stuff on, read ebooks, music and the like. I also use it in the car connected to the ODB port for pissing about.

    I also have a Microsoft Surface 2 (RT). I use this as a more portable work device, if I have to go anywhere for work. It's lighter and easier to carry than my actual work laptop. It's also the only machine I own with MS Office on, so I use it for things like letters and presentations (Micro HDMI out) etc.

    I had an iPad mini, but sold it as it had no use.

    I've still got an old Google Nexus as well which has some hacking stuff on it.

    So in summary the Hp and the surface are still used pretty regularly.


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    Default Re: What do you use your tablet for?

    I use a windows10/android dual boot tablet for when I go on Holiday. Mainly used to watch a film or 2 on the plane over and back

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    Default Re: What do you use your tablet for?

    Quote Originally Posted by DJ Overdose View Post
    I have an HP stream 7 with windows 10 on. I use it when i go on holidays mostly to watch stuff on, read ebooks, music and the like. I also use it in the car connected to the ODB port for pissing about.

    I also have a Microsoft Surface 2 (RT). I use this as a more portable work device, if I have to go anywhere for work. It's lighter and easier to carry than my actual work laptop. It's also the only machine I own with MS Office on, so I use it for things like letters and presentations (Micro HDMI out) etc.

    I had an iPad mini, but sold it as it had no use.

    I've still got an old Google Nexus as well which has some hacking stuff on it.

    So in summary the Hp and the surface are still used pretty regularly.


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    I actually forgot to include the stream 7, I was running octoprint on it before I built a linux server, now it sits in a drawer.

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    Default Re: What do you use your tablet for?

    I have a HP stream, use it for car diags as well, handy bit of kit

    havent used the ipad in months

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    Default Re: What do you use your tablet for?

    I use a Lenovo Tab 3 10 inch for car diagnostics. I have the same software running on my phone, but for looking at graphs a bigger screen helps a lot.

    Also thinking about getting a Hantek IDS1070A oscilloscope that can be used on a PC or tablet using USB or Wifi.

    My sister got my mum a Lenovo Yoga 500 laptop, can be used as a tablet or laptop. I think the only time it has ever been used in tablet mode was the first time I showed my mum how to use the thing.

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    Default Re: What do you use your tablet for?

    I've a dual Android/Windows 10 tablet in my bedroom. use it to cast movies from streaming sites to my smart TV, browsing in bed and of course, porn. - and lots of it

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    Default Re: What do you use your tablet for?

    Surface pro 3 and old ipad 3rrd gen or whatever they were called.

    Facetime for luddites in the extended family who don't have androids.

    Mainly used for catch up TV in bed.

    Wife uses her surface for work stuff.

    Ipad for porn I suppose!

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    Default Re: What do you use your tablet for?

    Nexus 7 Gen 2 was on my desk for three years without a reboot running IP Cam Viewer until last week when the battery expanded and popped the screen out, now in the bin.

    Nexus 9 my go to for reading PDFs and as a SDR (software Defined Radio) / Radio Scanner.

    IPad Mini 2 in the box waiting to go on ebay, only bought it for Facetime before WhatsApp took over.

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    Default Re: What do you use your tablet for?

    I use mine daily, general browsing, crap games, Facebook,banking, eBay, here now, everything really. Computer only gets switched on for photoshop or creating exel docs nowdays. Phone is too small and computer is overkill.

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    Default Re: What do you use your tablet for?

    Yep
    Still browsing and stuff from the sofa with my Hudl 2
    Lil bit surprised by the thread tbh as I kinda wish I'd bought a new one in the black Friday sales as the battery in the Hudl isnt what it used to be.

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    Default Re: What do you use your tablet for?

    Just discovered all the Android streaming apps so got the old tablet out last week after not using it for over a year.

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    Default Re: What do you use your tablet for?

    I've never owned one, always seemed surplus to my needs. Phone screens are big enough for most instances nowadays, failing that, the battle station.

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    Default Re: What do you use your tablet for?

    I have a iPad Pro that gets used for reading (Magazines, Comics, Books etc.) and thats pretty much all it gets used for.
    Luckily got it through work as £1,000+ for something to read Comics on is quite excessive.

    I use my laptop for browsing etc. (MS Surface Book) and thats about it
    You know he grew up as a little shitspark from the old shitflint and then he turned into a shitbonfire and driven by the winds of his monumental ignorance he turned into a raging shitfirestorm. If I get to be married to Barb I'll have total control of Sunnyvale and then I can unleash the shitnami tidal wave that will engulf Ricky and extinguish his shitflames forever. And with any luck he'll drown in the undershit of that wave. Shitwaves.

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    Default Re: What do you use your tablet for?

    I have an iPad 9.7"

    Me and the missus use it daily, her for watching Netflix on her commute and when in bed.

    I used it for Discord, watching Twitch, Angry Birds and Netflix for my son too.

    I also have a laptop so basically that and the tablet are rotating between the three of us.

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    Default Re: What do you use your tablet for?

    I have a HP stream and to be honest I don't know the last time I charged it even :-(

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    Default Re: What do you use your tablet for?

    I have a Nook HD+ with cyanogenmod rom on it, for YouTube and Netflix and Amazon Prime. Also a Fujitsu tablet that runs Win10, it has full size HDMI so I take it on holiday with a few usb sticks of movies

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    I have a iPad Pro, I use it to access the web, and thats it.
    TAR seems to be a decent bloke!

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    Default Re: What do you use your tablet for?

    Quote Originally Posted by Ganty View Post
    I've never owned one, always seemed surplus to my needs. Phone screens are big enough for most instances nowadays, failing that, the battle station.
    If I'm honest I only got them to satisfy my tech addiction and had no real plan for them from the outset. I was given the xoom as a present, the other 2 I should have learnt from the xoom that I didn't need them.

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    Default Re: What do you use your tablet for?

    Sold them had a Galaxy and an iPad air just gathered dust, I do the same with phones alway's have a lot of phones at the one time.

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