Budget Tablet
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If you are thinking of getting a new tablet (not the kind for headaches!) you could do much worse than the Amazon Fire. There is no need whatsoever to spend loads of euros on an iPad or similar top-of-the-range fashion statement junk.
An English friend recently bought her husband one from Amazon as she already had a Kindle Fire HD, which is £129 in the UK. The device I am talking about is the harry-cheapo basic Fire 7. In its basic state it costs a mere €60 which is roughly forty six quid.
When you get it from Amazon it is not very exciting and keeps bombarding you with adverts and offers etc.. This drives you mad so you stick it on Angoinfo to get rid of it quick. BIG MISTAKE!!!!! Actually two big mistakes – firstly why would you go on Angloinfo & have to pay for your advert – come to think of it why would you go on there anyway now that we have this brilliant replacement site. SECONDLY, you can fix the built in problems with your new Kindle Fire 7 quite easily. The answer is to modify the software built into the tablet which locks you into the Amazon money grabbing scam. Then you end up with a tablet that does most of what a three or four hundred euro one does for a mere sixty bucks.
How do you do this? I can’t disclose in this topic but if you PM me I’ll explain
I have successfully fixed four of these tablets so far – it’s not rocket science. I have one myself, Kathy also has one; we just bought Rob (our youngest son) one for his birthday yesterday.
PS I don’t have shares in Amazon – I just like circumventing rip-offs.
Many thanks for the tip. Personally I don’t like anything smaller than a full tower PC with a big monitor but will admit to using a laptop when needing access while away from home. Tried a Samsung netbook that went belly up just out of waranty. Then a Toshiba JournE Touch tablet which was rubbish from day one. Then a couple of “smart(!)” phones with internet access. Every one has been complete junk and not fit for purpose. I suspect the technology has moved ahead by huge amounts but as the screens get smaller my eyesight gets worse so the hand held toys will have to stay on the shelf.
I know what you mean old chum. I’m using an Acer laptop connected to a 80 cm Toshiba monitor on the wall. Works well for me.
Also have six external HDD’s, a Kindle Fire, a Samsung Galaxy S5 and an oil-fired Aga connected by USB.
Actually one of those is bullsh*t – guess which one
Hi Tony,
I like my iPad. But don’t like apple.
Chris
I also like my iPad
Not a computer afficiando, just use ’em but having bought a refurbed mac for a scanning project I’m doing I am very well impressed, I certainly shan’t be buying a pc again. It is truly empowering for someone who has always had to ask for help loading programs etc to find that it’s so easy to do oneself! Although a friend in UK has offered to help me I just haven’t needed it and I’m sure it’s not because my skills have taken a quantum leap forward!
The Aga is the most practical and durable piece of kit in your collection. It can outlive YOU and still be fit for purpose when none of your techno crap will even operate.
Agreed
We have owned Agas in solid fuel, Oil, Gas and Electricity and Kathy loved them all. They don’t take to being connected to a PC much though.
The last place I worked before settling here in France used Macs. I had a play with them during the night shift. I was well impressed with their graphics capabilities and fully understand why they are hallowed within that industry. I will never have one because they are too expensive and it is too difficult to build my own. I am happy to build a tower PC from scratch with off-the-peg new or secondhand components and fill it with any free OS and software that can be found on the internet for nothing.
I thought they were expensive shapeshifter but when it came to it it was around pc price, refurbed from Portable Universe, they only deliver in UK so I had a friend bring it back. Yep, I know you clever people can do stuff for nothing and know how to put things together, my ‘puter man was like that but for a numpty like me you end up paying ‘puter man – not that I minded he did a good job, he’s given up to be a musician which he also does extremely well – but it is really nice to be independant. I never thought I’d be able to buy a computer off the net, open the box and get straight on but with this one I did.
And rightly so. These things are probably one of the biggest “spends” we make these days around the house but they usually have the shortest effective life span. The marketing hype suggests we continually update and upgrade to newer and better and faster, blah blah blah and the OS Microsoft pumps into them is always faulty from day one and needs continual fixes installed until the latest “upgrade” is ready.
Golly. What that a rant? Sorry.
I’m not an Apple fan BUT I was looking for a premium tablet and by the time the Samsung that I had my eye on was the same functional spec as the comparable iPad it was more expensive.
Comparing a Dell XPS 13inch laptop to a Macbook Air and the prices are pretty much interchangable
I’ve a hunch that if you compared an Mac desktop to a SIMILARLY SPECCED PC there wouldn’t be much in it.That said I won’t be jumping ship from windoze / android because I can get a brand new perfectly usable lappy for 300 quid and a tablet for 100. Not the best but almost cheap enough to be disposable.
I never knew much about Macs and was a dedicated PC user and like @shapeshifter I used to build my own from scratch, then my daughter cooked her laptop and wanted to buy a macbook to replace it, I wasnt going to let her have a better laptop than me so I bought a second hand one from ebay even though it was only 8 months old it was stil pricy but that was over 4 years ago and it still looks and works as good as new, so yes they are expensive to buy, but Pcs are only meant to last a max of 3 years before it needs replacing, and in that time it needs constant updates ( almost daily) takes ages to boot up, needs anti virus installing ( yes I know macs can get virus’s) and on the whole look cheap and nasty. so I would never have another WinDoze machine.
I have persuaded friends of mine to buy a macbook they also swore by their pcs, not any more they just swear at them now
I’ve had Apple products for ages. 3 years ago when I got my new phone it had a lightning adapter making all of my other charging/data cable useless, so I purchased 2 more data cables 1 for the van and 1 for work. I bought them from eBay because I think 15 quid per apple lead is way expensive, so I got 2 from eBay for a 10er. They work fine for a week or 2, then I had to do an update and then you couldn’t use them for charging. Apple suck. but I like my iPad and phone.
@electriceye not sure I understand your logic? you dont like Apple yet you like their products! the fact that they use high quality components that are not compatible with cheaper ones ? bizarre? all I can say is you get what you pay for
Apple are innovators they were first to use a GUI, and the first to use a mouse and are stylish fast high end machines.
Ipod, Ipad, Iphone, are all synonymous with MP3 player, Tablet and smartphone…. as for itunes well I’ll give you that I’m not a fan at all
Apple are certainly innovators – they invented the inflated price. With Windows you can use any machine at any price. Who wants to be locked to an operating system? Give me CHOICE any day. Try running Linux on an iPad.
I bought an iMac for my wife before we moved to France for her work. The thinking behind it was not having to plug it into the router so she could use it in a different room, the lack of cables involved (just a power cable) and the fact that everything just seems to work. However, she just couldn’t get on with it and has gone back to her pc and has stolen my laptop. So, here I am with an expensive toy! I like it though, it works well, I can sync it with my iPhone, any photo’s I take automatically appear on the Mac when I get home and I can do a screenshot! Witchy Poo will understand that bit. The only things that need constant updating are Microsoft products like Word, Excel etc. Every time I go to use them there are a ton of updates to do. Very annoying.
Anyway, I wouldn’t call myself an Apple fan, but my phone and Mac do work well. I don’t seem to have the problems that people have with Android type phones.
I have an Android phone – a Samsung Galaxy S5 and it works really well, but only because it is rooted. I don’t think I would like it so much if I had kept it in “out of the box” mode. I like to be able to install whatever apps I like, not just the ones I am told to like.
I don’t use too may apps to be fair. I don’t have facebook or any of that type of thing. My banking works well on my phone…….I don’t really do a lot to be honest. I will agree though, they’re not cheap. Unless you find a decent second hand iPad it wouldn’t really be classed as a budget gadget which is what you were after. BTW, all my stuff (phone, laptop, iMac etc) was bought used but in good condition. I’m not loaded!!
Get one of these.Fast,good size and price and none of the annoying ads to bother you.
Started off with an AppleMac when people thought they were raincoats.Had to switch to a PC for work-brain damaging. Moved to a Samsung Netbook-loved it but heavy.Then a VIVIFI tablet. OK but it slowed down.
No need to spend loads of money these days.
I’m not a fan at all
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