Tablet advice (again)

[Jay]

It's still possible though, unlike on a fondleslab of any variety.

Possible, but not with any proficiency

Depends on how other people work, some work quite well with 1 monitor and there's nothing stopping anyone using a Ultrabook with another monitor as they come with vga(yes sirius some do) and HDMI output 

[golf-sib]

Any more advise for suitable tablets

[golf-sib]

Looks like Asus are revealing the Transformer prime with quad core this month. So I think I will wait for the new year see how some off the older tablets are effected by the new relases and price as well as see how promising the new products are.

What other tablets can people suggest and recommend, including ones due to come out?

[bobotheclown]

aren't macbook air ultrabooks £1000 in price?

[Ridg]

Any more advise for suitable tablets

have you looked at the G9 archos range?

[golf-sib]

Not looked at g9's, will have a look. I'm 50/50 with archos, they seem to give them a descent spec but they all hugely under perform. I've got a Archos 7 and the product support and promises from archos were short lived in terms of software through most off there product range. Luckily with android there's a huge community with custom builds and cyanogen which gave the tablets a meaning such as enabling the market etc.

I played with an archos g8 101, that felt underpowered from its spec compared to other similar tablets.

But I will still have a look.

Been thinking of a HP touchpad, the OS I haven't played with but I noticed from reviews it performs very well. There seems to be a dual boot with a cyanogen mod made by the community with continuous development. Plus HP have said they will add windows support, but whether they follow through or not is another question as the touchpad is no longer manufactured.

Seems like a lot of tablet manufacturers really don't want to make tablets that dual boot, instead they make the same tablet twice with a minor variation to support the individual is, which is understandable for marketing and money making as it forces you to buy two tablets. Yet most tablets that seem to support dual boot do it poorly at the moment, so I'm in a pickle. Plus the dual booting tablets with 16gb seem to loose all there space once windows is installed.

[Ridg]

Not looked at g9's, will have a look. I'm 50/50 with archos, they seem to give them a descent spec but they all hugely under perform. I've got a Archos 7 and the product support and promises from archos were short lived in terms of software through most off there product range. Luckily with android there's a huge community with custom builds and cyanogen which gave the tablets a meaning such as enabling the market etc.

I played with an archos g8 101, that felt underpowered from its spec compared to other similar tablets.

But I will still have a look.

Been thinking of a HP touchpad, the OS I haven't played with but I noticed from reviews it performs very well. There seems to be a dual boot with a cyanogen mod made by the community with continuous development. Plus HP have said they will add windows support, but whether they follow through or not is another question as the touchpad is no longer manufactured.

Seems like a lot of tablet manufacturers really don't want to make tablets that dual boot, instead they make the same tablet twice with a minor variation to support the individual is, which is understandable for marketing and money making as it forces you to buy two tablets. Yet most tablets that seem to support dual boot do it poorly at the moment, so I'm in a pickle. Plus the dual booting tablets with 16gb seem to loose all there space once windows is installed.

the G9 range are using the new Texas instruments OMAP chips which is faster than the tegra you'll find running in the xoom and other droid tablets, pretty sure it's quicker than the apple offers too.  As you say most of the previous devices have been limited, on the 9th gen devices the chip flies and the only limitation is the 512MB ram, even so it still run everything smoothly and hardware 1080 mkv decoding 

As i said in Tim's post, my boss has the 8" version which is pretty slick, build quality/feel is poor compaired to samsung / apple but as you'll know from owning an archos, it's the stuff inside that counts.

I'm in a similar situation to you, I want something I can use to watch films on the train / ereader but at the same time a laptop replacement is wanted for pulling photos off my camera, programming.  At the moment there really isn't something that ticks all those boxes, on a £400 budget I'd get a dual core atom eeeepc ~ £200, 2GB ram stick £10 and a 120GB SSD £130, swap the ram and SSD out install win7 or ubuntu (or even dual boot) and you're laughing.  I'd then buy an 8" tab at a later date for portability.

[golf-sib]

There's nothing that ticks all the boxes yet tablet wise which is a shame, the Asus transformer seems good in the fact of its huge battery life. I already have a 17" laptop for on the go and at home my main PC is finally running 64bit win7 and is equipped with a 32" monitor running 1920x xxxx resolution which is perfect for multitasking rather than a dual setup with a a5 sized tablet for input.

I could live with a android 10" tab without windowd as long as it will get 4.0 update and use my 120gb iPod as portable storage with a Bluetooth keyboard. Just can't decide what I want tablet wise. As you do have that office app on android for £10 and silveredit for a similar price which is a web development app with preview and FTP support. Not looked at any other SDK apps for other programming languages such as c etc.

Any other tablet recommendations I could look at?

[Diamond Hell]

Possible, but not with any proficiency

Oh right, web design proficiency depends on having a desktop and two monitors.

Further pigs of wisdom from Mr Lessani. 

[Ben Lessani]

Possible, but not with any proficiency

Oh right, web design proficiency depends on having a desktop and two monitors.

Further pigs of wisdom from Mr Lessani. 

3 years of running a web design company says so, yes But, each to their own.